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Abstract
Cambridge University Department of Chemistry has a list of University Chemistry Departments and Chemistry-related journals around the world: ChemSites (http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/ChemSitesIndex.html). This article describes what makes it distinct from other lists, and justifies the existence of more than one such list.
Highlights
The Department of Chemistry at Cambridge has maintained a list of University Chemistry Departments with WWW servers and of Chemistry Journals with an internet presence, since 1994
How many university chemistry departments with WWW servers are there in the world? This is not an easy question, because it depends on the precise definition of each of the three words
Should a list of chemistry departments include everything which may be described as chemistry, or should it stick to a more exclusive definition? There is a similar problem in deciding whether a journal is really about chemistry, or if it is just not chemical enough to include on a list of chemistry journals
Summary
The Department of Chemistry at Cambridge has maintained a list of University Chemistry Departments with WWW servers and of Chemistry Journals with an internet presence, since 1994. This index is called ChemSites and is available on the http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/ChemSitesIndex.html URL. When it started, there were only a dozen or so such departments and the task was a very easy one. When the Cambridge index was started, the WWW virtual library had an up-to-date chemistry page at UCLA (http://www.chem.ucla.edu/chempointers.html) [1]. Is there any reason to continue maintaining ChemSites, apart from habit, as it is just one of quite a large number of such lists?
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