JCE Index Online (if you have yet to discover it, check it out at http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/Journal/Search/) now supports keyword searching in addition to searching titles and authors. The keywording is of course not a job that can ever be completed. We therefore welcome volunteers to help with additional keywording and plan to implement very soon a form for the online submission of keywords. Anyone who wants to be a volunteer keyword editor should contact Jon Holmes, JCE Software editor.

The JCE Index Online now contains references to all articles published in the 74 volumes of the Journal, is complete to May 1997, and is updated monthly. Another new feature links the references returned after a search, which are formatted to adhere to ACS Style Guide conventions and linked to the abstract or full text of the article when available online (generally all articles since July 1995). The following graphics illustrate how these links work.

With these new improvements we think you will agree with the many who have told us that JCE Index Online is an indispensable tool for doing literature searches of the Journal.

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Our Board of Publication

What is the "Board of Publication" that is listed on the Journal's masthead? If you are a member of the Division of Chemical Education, the Board represents you in the Journal operation. The Journal is published by the Division, not by the American Chemical Society. This provides the Division an autonomy and freedom of action that we value. It is exercised, for example, in the choice of Editor. However, with freedom comes the responsibility for overseeing a $1.25 million operation. The board of publication is charged with this responsibility. Three of the Board are ex officio members whom you have elected to leadership positions on the Division's Executive Committee. The other five, from among whom the chair is chosen, are appointed by the executive committee.

This is one more reason to vote in Division elections (see page 896 for a list of candidates); your choices are important to the Journal you hold in your hand (or are reading from your computer screen on JCE Online). Since we represent you, we welcome your input on any aspect of the Journal about which you would like to comment. From time to time we will also use this feature to communicate with you and solicit advice on specific issues. The announcement of the appointment by the Board of a new publications coordinator to handle the Journal's business affairs appears on page 896. You can reach the present chair (Jerry A. Bell) most readily by email: jbell@aaas.org.

Another Meeting, Another Booth!

Will you attend the ChemEd '97 Meeting in Minneapolis in early August? the Fall 1997 ACS Meeting in Las Vegas in early September? If so, we hope you will stop by our booth to talk with members of the Journal staff. We will have CD-ROMs and software, sample issues, order forms (bring along a friend who is not yet a subscriber), extra copies of the Book Buyers Guide, and copies of all of our books. In addition, we will have a special bonus for new subscribers and those who renew their subscription at the meeting. We will be one of just a few booths in Minneapolis, so you won't have any trouble finding us; in Las Vegas we will be at Booth 149.

If you are attending the ACS Meeting in Las Vegas, you will want to refer to the detailed program for the Division of Chemical Education that is on pages 882 through 884. The descriptions of the symposia should enable you to make better choices about which sessions to attend; all CHED sessions are scheduled for the Stardust Hotel. Immediately following that is a new full-color guide to the Exposition with an indication of where you can find our advertisers. Then there is information about the city of Las Vegas and the Mojave Desert in which it resides, provided by our Discovering column experts, Paul and Brenda Cohen. We plan to include a report and photographs covering this meeting, just as we did for San Francisco.

75^th Celebrations

This is a reminder that we continue to seek your suggestions for ways in which we can meaningfully celebrate our diamond anniversary. Are there things that you would like to see happen in the print Journal? Maybe you have suggestions for JCE Software, JCE Online, or JCE Internet. There are also the gala mixer, poster session, and symposium at the Fall 1998 ACS Meeting in Bostonsee page 904 for information. We really are counting on readers to take an active part, so let us hear from you.

Coming in the September Issue

What do you have to look forward to in next month's Journal? There will be the Book Buyers Guide, which you will see immediately when you get your issue because it will again be a separately bound item that is inserted in the mailer. Inside the issue will be a cluster of articles on food, the ACS Pimentel Award address, and mission statements for all of the columns that are at the introductory chemistry level.