Slide 1 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the American Chemical Society Lorrin R. Garson Robert L. Swann August 21, 2000

Slide 2 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS Organization of ACS Publications Division v Publishing Operations. v Special Publications. v Chemical & Engineering News. v New Product Development. v Information Technology. v Sales & Marketing. v Business Operations and Publishing Services.

Slide 3 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS Publishing Operations v Journal Publications—Columbus Editorial Office (~80 staff). –Technical editing. –Processing softcopy manuscripts. –Almost almost all chemists. v Composition Services (~50 staff).

Slide 4 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS Special Publications v Analytical Chemistry, and ES&T. v LabGuide and Chemcyclopedia. v Chemical Innovation. v Today’s Chemist at Work and Modern Drug Discovery. v 29 staff, 90% chemists, mostly Ph.D.s. Writing, editing, managing.

Slide 5 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS Chemical & Engineering News v Writers in science, government and business. v Production editors. v 44 staff, all but 10 have at least B.S. in chemistry. 10 Ph.D.s

Slide 6 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS New Product Development v Evaluate potential for new products for editorial and business success. v Understanding of chemistry essential. v Understanding of business and scientific publishing essential. v 9 staff, some Ph.D.s in chemistry.

Slide 7 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS Information Technology within the ACS v Society Programs and Administration (IT/SP&A). v Publications Division (IT/Pubs) v Chemical Abstracts Service Division (RIN* Research Information Systems and New Product Development)

Slide 8 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS Information Technology Chemical Abstracts Service v Research. v Information Systems. v New Product Development. v About 300 staff, some PhD chemists. Most have bachelor degrees in computer science, math, or chemistry. Wide variety of other degrees e.g. physics, economics, music, philosophy, medicine, statistics, etc.

Slide 9 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS Information Technology Chemical Abstracts Service: Purpose & Function v To provide computer systems, software, & support for internal CAS operations and for products and services delivered to customers worldwide.

Slide 10 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS Information Technology Chemical Abstracts Service: Examples of past projects v Database Building Automation. v Web-based products. v Network architecture. v Database content enhancements.

Slide 11 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS Information Technology Chemical Abstracts Service: Examples of current projects v Customer information systems. v Automation of operations. v Product Enhancements.

Slide 12 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS Information Technology Publications Division v Systems Support. v Research & Development. v 40 staff, some Ph.D.s in chemistry and physics. Most staff with degrees in computer science or electrical engineering. v Knowledge of chemistry very useful in R&D.

Slide 13 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS Information Technology Publications Division: Purpose & Function v To provide computer support for the Division’s operations and collaborate in the development of new products and services.

Slide 14 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS Information Technology Publications Division: Examples of past projects v Development of Web journals. –Digitization of Supporting Information. –Linking references including to secondary services, (CAS, NLM, etc.). v Creation of databases. – Chemcyclopedia. – LabGuide.

Slide 15 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS Information Technology Publications Division: Examples of current projects v Creation of archival journal file. v Peer Review System (WebPR+). v Re-engineering of journal production system. v Enhancement of Web journals in collaboration with CAS.

Slide 16 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS No. of Abstracts of Papers in Chemical Abstracts No. of Paper Abstracts

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Slide 18 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS Growth in ACS Journal Publishing pages/yeararticles/year pages/year

Slide 19 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS Comments on Chemical Education v Chemistry is a core science and has broad application in numerous areas of business, education and a variety of services. v Scientific education tends to be narrowly focused, especially graduate programs. v A scientific education generally does not include training in business or economics. v Scientific training sometimes generates a level of hubris which can be detrimental.

Slide 20 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS v Director of RIN*/CAS ( present). v Vice President, Information Systems, Sterling Winthrop ( ). v Global Director of IT, DowElanco Information Systems. v Director of IT, Dow Chemical Company. v BS degree Chemistry & Mathematics, MS degree Physical & Analytical Chemistry. Personal Information: Bob Swann * Research, I/S and New Product Development

Slide 21 of 21 Nontraditional Careers in Chemistry at the ACS v Director of IT/Publications Division. v Associate Professor, University of Tennessee Medical Units ( ). v Medicinal Chemist, Riker Laboratories. v BA, MS, Ph.D. in chemistry. v Farm boy. Personal Information: Lorrin Garson