Chemistry International
Vol. 24, No. 5
September 2002
IUPAC News
The
"Orange Book" Online
Conceived
a couple of years ago, the Web
edition of the IUPAC Compendium of Analytical Nomenclaturethe
"Orange Book"has now been completed. Its purpose is
to ease access to and extend the influence of the extensive information
contained in its recommendations. The work involved extensive proofreading
of the electronic files and editing them to correspond in detail to
the printed version, or to the earlier Pure and Applied Chemistry
publications when there were conflicts. This work involved all members
of the Analytical Chemistry Division Committee and others.
The Officers
of the Analytical Chemistry
Division during 2000-2002 (F. Ingman, D. S. Moore, K. Powell, and
R. Lobinski) are extremely grateful for the help provided by the ACD
Committee members and the staff of the Secretariat, and to C. Townsend
for hyperlinking the index.
The home
page for the web edition is in frames, with the left hand frame serving
as a shorthand table of contents. Clicking on a chapter loads its table
of contents into the main frame. The sections of each chapter are linked
to Adobe PDF files of that particular section. These can then be searched
and/or printed, as desired. The margins were chosen so that they would
print on either US Letter or A4 paper. The Index is presented as alphabetical
sections, and each term is hyperlinked to the pdf file of the appropriate
section of the book. Some book sections are quite long, so that a simple
search on the term after downloading the pdf should quickly yield the
appropriate location.
www.iupac.org/publications/analytical_compendium