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Dr. Frank Allen, winner of the ACS CINF Herman Skolnik Award in 2003, passed away on November 10, aged 70.  The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) writes “Frank joined the Chemical Crystallography Group at the University of Cambridge in 1970 and played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Cambridge Structural Database. He went on to become the Scientific Director and then the Executive Director of the CCDC.

Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Time: 11 am US/EST
Title: Content Usage and Licensing at Work using resoruces through the Copyright Clearance Center
Speaker: Stephen Garfield 

This is a reminder that the deadline for applying for the 2015 CINF scholarships sponsored by InfoChem and Springer is October 17, 2014.

CINF Scholarship for Scientific Excellence Co-sponsored by InfoChem and Springer

Designed to help persons with an interest in the fields of Chemistry and Information to pursue graduate study in Library, Information, or Computer Science, the Scholarship consists of a $1,500 honorarium. This scholarship is given yearly by the Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society. 

The Chemical Information Division of the ACS invites proposals for presentations at the symposium: “Research results: reproducibility, reporting, sharing and plagiarism” to be held at the ACS National Meeting in Denver, March 22-26, 2015.

More details about the National Meeting can be found here: http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/meetings/spring-2015.html

Information Sources on Natural Resources

The Division of Chemical Information (CINF) encourages submissions for a symposium on “Information Sources for Natural Resources” to take place during the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Denver, March 22-26, 2015.

The 65^th anniversary issue (winter 2014: volume 66, number 4) of the Chemical Information Bulletin is available at the CINF website at: http://bulletin.acscinf.org/. The issue features reports from the 2014 Fall ACS National Meeting in San Francisco. CA.

Check out ACS webinars http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/events.html!  broadcasted live, every Thursday from 2-3 PM ET unless otherwise noted.  Recordings of the webinars are archived two weeks after the live presentation as an ACS member benefit. 

Do you have a colleague whom you feel should be acknowledged for their work in chemical information?  The Dayton and Columbus Sections of the American Chemical Society, which sponsor the Patterson-Crane Award, would like to hear from you. The biennial award consists of a $3,000 honorarium and a personalized commendation and is to be presented in the Spring of 2015 at an awards dinner to be held in Columbus, Ohio.  The recipient is expected to give an address at the time of the award presentation.

The international scholarship program of the Division of Chemical Information (CINF) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) co-sponsored by InfoChem (www.infochem.de) and Springer (www.springer.com) is designed to reward students in chemical information and related sciences for scientific excellence and to foster their involvement in CINF.