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American Chemical Society Committee on Professional Training Library Guidelines and Recommended Journal List, Fall 1992

Library Guidelines for ACS Approved Schools


Essential to an approved chemistry program is a good library where faculty and students have access to books and periodicals and where adequate support for data base searching is available. Chemical Abstracts (hard copy or online) must be part of the collection. An institution with a broad spectrum of research activity will require extensive holdings. The department meets the minimum library requirement for approval if its library subscribes to twenty or more refereed journals in the chemical sciences and has a range of other reference materials. If an institution subscribes to fewer than twenty current refereed journals in the chemical sciences, it must demonstrate that an adequate mechanism exists for faculty and students to gain access to the wider literature. In such instances, the on-site collection must have hard copy subscriptions to no fewer than fourteen current journals chosen from the CPT library listing (available from the Office of Professional Training, American Chemical Society, 1155 16th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036). Of the fourteen, at least four must be from the general content list, and at least one each must be from the areas of analytical, biological, inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry.

ACS CPT Journal List for Undergraduate Programs

I. GENERAL CONTENT


II. TOPICAL


In addition to the required journals, undergraduates may benefit from a browsing collection including some of the following:
Chemical and Engineering News, Chemistry in Britain, Scientific American, CHEMTECH, Chemtracts.
(as of April 1993)