This paper aims to show the potential of mailing list archives as primary sources for studying
recent history of science. In order to focus on the debates regarding software within the …

Computational chemistry is a scientific field within which the computer is a pivotal element.
This scientific community emerged in the 1980s and was involved with two major industries …

A Month in the Life of a Mailing List [PREVIOUS] [CONTENTS] [NEXT] Issues in Science and
Technology Librarianship Summer 1997 DOI:10.5062/F4765C9T URLs in this document have …

Abstract The Computational Chemistry List is a mailing list, portal, and community which
brings together people interested in computational chemistry, mostly practitioners. It was …

Computational chemistry grew in a new era of" desktop modeling", which coincided with a
growing demand for modeling software, especially from the pharmaceutical industry …

Internet resources for the toxicological and pharmacological communities offer considerable
information, however, the data is generally not amenable to machine-driven reuse. Adoption …

The inter-net is a rapidly expanding and extremely powerful collection of networks, and is
becoming more frequently used by chemists. The ability to access information from around …

It has been about 1.5 years since this Internet column for chemistry was initiated. It seems
that this is a good time to pause and reflect on where the use of computers and the Internet …