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Chemical Education International, Vol. 2, Issue 1, Foreword, Published in August 31, 2001


Foreword

Yoshito Takeuchi

Editor-in Chief
Department of Chemistry, Faculity of Science, Kanagawa University, Tuchiya, Hiratsuka-shi, 259-1293 Japan
[email protected]

It is a great pleasure for the editor and the editorial board to announce the release of the 2nd issue of Chemical Education International. At the same time, the editor wishes to apologize for the delay of this issue. It was intended to release the 2nd issue by the end of March 2001, and so with this delay of several months in mind the editorial board would like to thank authors who made their contributions in time to meet our original issue date.

It would be appropriate to report how this new electronic journal was born. In 1974, CTC started publishing the International Newsletter for Chemical Education (INCE) to promote the exchange of ideas and the dissemination of information on chemical education all over the world. The circulation of INCE varied between 3000 and 4000 and it was published twice per year.

UNESCO originally sponsored this small pamphlet. As has been the case with many other projects, because of the budget cutbacks, UNESCO retreated from this publication, and for some ten years or so IUPAC CTC had a very hard time trying to maintain this publication. Donations from several chemical societies from various countries made possible the continuation of the publication for a few years. However, a publication based on such elusive funding was not very stable, with the result that continuation of the publication in a conventional form was no longer feasible.

The possibility of electronic publication as an alternative for conventional publication was discussed on several occasions, firstly at the informal CTC meeting at Brisbane on the occasion of the 16th ICCE in August 1996, and later on the occasion of the IUPAC CTC meeting in the summer of 1999 in Berlin. At this latter meeting it was proposed and decided that the INCE be shifted to the format of an electronic publication, and a small working group was organized to proceed with the proposed publication.

The first issue of a trial version of the electronic journal was released in July 2000, just before the 16th ICCE held in Budapest. As for the name of the new journal, the editorial board had two choices; one was to take over the name of INCE, and the other was to have a new name to indicate a change. The editorial board decided to choose the second option, and a new name Chemical Education International was proposed. The new name was chosen in harmony with the name of IUPAC's official news magazine, Chemistry International. The editorial board also proposed a subtitle, Material, Life and Environment so that the general policy of the editing of the new journal was more clearly revealed.

The intended readership of INCE was mostly schoolteachers and some professors who were interested in chemical education. The editorial board intended to widen the scope to some extent, and hopefully students (and interested members of the general public) might be included in the potential readership. This was not so unrealistic since to be a reader of an electronic journal would be in one sense much easier than to be a reader of a printed journal since one need not buy the journal.

As for the articles included in the electronic journal, the main part should be the announcements and reports of various international conferences (e.g., ICCE) and events (e.g., Chemistry Olympiad). As a feature, and as a means to attract students and a general readership to the journal, we attempted to include a brief interview of Nobel laureates in chemistry. Included in the first two issues were interviews with Prof. Rowland and with Prof. Kroto. It must be added that the two Nobel laureates were very co-operative and agreed to spend some of their precious time with us for the interview.

At the CTC meeting held in Brisbane in the summer of 2001, the results of these attempts were critically discussed, and it was unanimously decided that the electronic publication should be continued, though the scope of the readers would be better restricted rather than widened.

Another proposal by the editor to the effect that the new electronic journal should be guided by a younger colleague with more knowledge and experience in the field of electronic publication was also approved, and Prof. M. M. Ito, the national representative of Japan who had acted as the co-editor for the previous two issues was elected as the new editor. An editorial board including some ten titular members and national representatives with appropriate geographical distribution was also established.

As such, from issue No. 3 of the electronic journal the new editor and editorial board will be responsible for all aspects of the editing and publishing of the journal.

The editor wishes to thank all those who helped in the renewed attempts of INCE to bring the new electronic journal into existence and without whose help nothing could have been done. The editor is very much satisfied with the fact that he could somehow contribute to CTC and the world of chemical education by opening up a new world of electronic publication with CTC's own journal.

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