Powder Diffraction and the Denver X-ray
Conference
In order to
better serve the X-ray analysis community, Powder Diffraction and the organizing
committee of the Denver X-ray Conference have agreed to a collaboration that
will result in increased services for the subscribers of Powder Diffraction and
authors of Advances in X-ray Analysis, the proceedings of the Denver X-ray
Conference. Powder Diffraction will annually publish a preview program of the
Denver X-ray Conference (DXC) in the June issue. Included with the online
edition of Powder Diffraction will be active links to both the DXC authors and
DXC titles enabling subscribers of Powder Diffraction to search by author or
subject for the ~125 oral presentations made at the conference. Proceedings of
the conference will continue to be published in an annual issue of Advances in
X-ray Analysis. As a result of the collaboration, the first quarter issue of
Powder Diffraction (January 2004) will be devoted to select advance publications
from the proceedings. These publications will be selected by the Denver X-ray
Conference organizing committee representing the best in X-ray analysis and
materials characterization. These papers can cover a range of subjects such as
X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, or special topics in X-ray
analysis.
In 2004, an increase
will be added to the subscription fee of Powder Diffraction, so that subscribers
of Powder Diffraction who receive print or joint print and online versions may
also receive the CD-ROM of Volume 47, Advances in X-ray Analysis. This will
effectively double the number of articles annually available to Powder
Diffraction subscribers at a fraction of the cost. This service will start in
2004 since Advances in X-ray Analysis is typically published in the year
following the conference. It is our hope and desire that this collaboration will
result in the increased exposure of the best of X-ray analysis to the
international community.
ICDD
and MPDS Announce Collaboration
The
International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) is pleased to announce a
collaborative agreement between the ICDD, a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation,
Newtown Square, PA, USA and Material Phases Data Systems (MPDS), a Swiss
corporation headquartered in Vitznau, Switzerland. The ICDD is a scientific
organization founded by and dedicated to scientists working in the field of
X-ray analysis. MPDS, with Dr. Pierre Villars as president, is focused on
inorganic materials and design systems. ICDD maintains, distributes and owns
copyright and database rights to the Powder Diffraction File (PDF). MPDS
compiles and edits physical property, structural, diffraction and constitutional
data for the purposes of inorganic materials correlation and design. MPDS has
distribution rights to the Linus Pauling File (LPF). The collaborative agreement
will result in the incorporation of inorganic structural data (S-entry) from the
LPF into the PDF-4 relational database format of the Powder Diffraction File.
Join us on Monday evening from 5:00–6:00 for a kick-off celebration sponsored
by ICDD to announce our collaboration with MPDS.
For more
information please contact Denise Flaherty - flaherty@icdd.com
