Speedy access to the world's polymer news

Polymer Contents is a new free service from Rapra Technology, custom-created to the needs of individual subscribers and designed to bring the world of polymers direct to the doorstep of the industry.

Polymer Contents is a new free service from Rapra Technology, custom-created to the needs of individual subscribers and designed to bring the world of polymers direct to the doorstep of the industry.

"This is a real opportunity for all in the sector to keep abreast - at no charge - of the world's emerging discoveries and innovations in polymer science, technology and manufacturing and, most particularly, an opportunity to monitor special interests within the industry", says Rien van den Hondel, Rapra Technology's Manager of Databases.

Every month Rapra abstracts some 400 journals, conference papers and other publications, employing a specialist staff of some 25 abstractors.

In essence, a digest of all this information will now be made available to users free on http://www.polymercontents.com.

After simple registration, visitors can create "topic profiles" describing their particular interests via an easy to use menu.

Users may create as many topic profiles as they want.

Each of these will result in a fortnightly e-mail, listing titles and truncated abstracts of recent, specially selected literature.

The content will be sourced from new additions to Rapra Technology's polymerlibrary.com; the largest online polymer literature database in the world.

Publications covered by this service are journal articles, conference proceedings, trade literature, books and reports.

A list of journals covered by the Polymer Library can also be downloaded from the site.

If - on reading through the fortnightly listings - any particular abstract takes a reader's interest, it is then available to the subscriber to purchase the item via credit card.

A commercial copyright cleared full text copy of the original publication will then be delivered to the reader's computer within 24 hours - more typically within a few hours of ordering.

By clicking on the unique accession number next to each title, the price for that document is displayed.

Readers can then place the documents in a shopping basket and after a secure live credit card payment Rapra's document delivery service will e-mail the documents.

Details of all users will be confidential and will not be passed on to any third parties.

Rapra reckons the service will be ideal for: processors looking for new polymers for a specific application; marketing managers interested in market trends; chemists trying to improve properties of polymers; sales managers keeping an eye on products announced by competitors; and purchasing managers searching for new polymers for a specific application.

Subject examples for individual users might include: uses of thermoplastic elastomers; how to work with nanocomposites; environmentally friendly blowing agents; properties of certain blends of polymers; chemical resistance of hoses; adhesives for automotive applications; nondestructive testing of composites; blow moulding of PET; or electric injection moulding machines.

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