The American Chemistry Society is making significant moves toward replacing its printed journals with digital versions, as described yesterday in The Wired Campus. This policy is enlightened. It is the future.
The Society’s excellent website includes a page for National Chemistry Week: “Chemistry — It’s Elemental!” October 18-24, 2009. Regretfully, most of the resources there that students could use to learn chemistry are bundled inside of print designed PDFs. There is a wonderful exception: a Dynamic Periodic Table available in 34 languages. A portion of the Chinese (I think) version of the table is grabbed in the above image.
My guess and hope is that by Chemistry Week 2010, all of the Society’s learning resources will be online, dynamic, and, importantly, browsable on the mobile devices that students will all soon carry.
