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Since last July, Princeton University has licensed access to the electronic versions of the American Chemical Society's research journals back to their first volumes.  As a result, many of the existing hard copies in the Library became obsolete and had to be disposed of.

As a much better alternative, the Chemistry Library, with the enthusiastic assistance of the NMR facility staff, has made a donation of an extensive and valuable hardcopy collection of ACS Journals and other periodicals, including 51 years of publications of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The NMR staff contacted libraries overseas and various universities in Brazil showed great interest, although shipping costs were estimated at $10,000.  The Princeton’s Department of Corporate and Foundation Relations (Mr. Norman McNatt) arranged for a grant from Exxon Mobil to cover the freight costs and the Department of  Chemistry at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) will coordinate distribution to Brazilian libraries. As a result of this concerted effort more than 20 different publications will be shipped to Brazil this fall.