New Donors for Molecular Organic (Super)Conductors and Ferromagnets

✍ Scribed by Prof. Dr. Zen-ichi Yoshida; Dr. Toyonari Sugimoto

• Book ID: 102726761
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 669 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.198815731

✦ Synopsis

Within a year or two of the creation of a new journal, its scope and readership become set in stone (or grooves), and therafter extensions of either, however sincerely sought, become ever more difficult. The MRS started its new journal after the Society had become established in the eye of the technical public, and was thus able to aim immediately at a wide scope and readership; even so, it has had difficulties to overcome . . . a tendency by readers to suspect the new journal of electronic favoritism, and problems: in extending readership across the Atlantic. It has scored with a striking innovation, however: it may well be the first learned periodical (as distinct from house journal) to be distributed free to all members who pay their modest membership subscriptions. There is undoubtedly much to learn, on this side of the Atlantic, from the MRS's new Journal of Materials Research.

For better or worse, Europe has embarked on a new route marked with much promise and numerous difficulties: it will be next to impossible to stop at a halfway point, and we may all expect to witness a rapid succession of mergers, federations and recreations. Good luck . . . bonne chance . . . zum Wohle!