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Sponsors ChemIndustry.com Inc., John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK Announce Winners and Honorees of the 2002 Contest
Monrovia, CA, September 1, 2002 -- ChemIndustry.com Inc., John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
and the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK proudly announce the winners and honorees of the 2002 Contest, "Best Chemical Sites on the Web." The awards recognize unique and noteworthy Internet resources for chemists, chemical engineers and chemical industry professionals in three categories: "Online Courses and Tools", "Portals and Information Hubs", and "Corporate Sites." Sites must be in English and free to users. An international panel of 16 distinguished judges in various chemical fields selected the following winners and honorees:
Online Courses and Tools:
The winner is Torvs Research Team with its collection of interactive Web-based chemical computation and visualization services.
http://www2.chemie.uni-erlangen.de/services
Category honorees are:
Mass Spectroscopy course by: Mass Spectroscopy Facility, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Heidelberg.
http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~bl5
"An Introduction to Surface Chemistry" by Dr. Roger Nix, Department of Chemistry, Queen Mary University of London
http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/surfaces/scc
Portals and Information Hubs:
The winner is Webbook a comprehensive database of chemical data, provided by NIST
http://webbook.nist.gov
Category honorees are:
Chemweb, chemistry community portal. http://www.chemweb.com
SpecialChem, a polymer additives focused online service. http://www.specialchem.com
Integrated Spectral Data Base System for Organic Compounds, by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. http://www.aist.go.jp/RIODB/SDBS/menu-e.html
MatWeb, a searchable database of chemical names and properties. http://www.matWeb.com
SIS, a chemical information portal by the National Library of Medicine. http://chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov
The portal of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). http://www.iupac.org
The chemistry portal of the American Chemical Society. http://www.chemistry.org
Winners in both categories receive $750 worth of books and publications from John Wiley & Sons Inc. Honorees receive products from the Royal Society of Chemistry
Corporate Sites:
The winner is Sigma-Aldrich. http://www.sigma-aldrich.com
Category honorees are:
Molecular Probes. http://www.probes.com
Eastman Chemical. http://www.eastman.com
Fisher Scientific. http://www.fishersci.com
Dow Corning. http://www.dowcorning.com
EM Science. http://www.emscience.com
ACD Labs. http://www.acdlabs.com
Winner receives a full year advertising campaign with Chemindustry.com. Honorees receive three months of online campaigns.
About the Contest
The "Best Chemical Sites on the Web" contest was open to web sites and web pages of clear interest to chemists, chemical engineers and chemical industry professionals, in English and free to users. Web site owners, web masters, judges and the general public were invited to nominate sites from Jan. 28, to June 27, 2002. In all, 128 eligible web sites were entered, including 19 in the "Online Courses and Tools" category; 41 in the "Portals and Information Hubs" category, and 64 in the "Corporate Sites" category.
About the Judging Process
The 16 judge panel reviewed and independently ranked nominees within the following parameters: "Accuracy, Breath and Depth of Content; "Usefulness;" and "Presentation and Ease of Use." A nominee's overall score was determined by an arithmetic average of the three parameters and by averaging all of the judges' votes. The diverse panel was comprised of distinguished editors and publishers, chemical information experts, librarians, chemists, and chemical engineers. Please find more details about the contest judges at http://www.chemindustry.com/contest/judges.asp. The complete list of nominees can be found at http://www.chemindustry.com/db/category/cat765.asp.
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