THE WORLD-WIDE-WEB AS A CHEMICAL INFORMATION TOOL

The Internet-based information tool known as the World-Wide Web began to be widely used in 1993, This review will introduce the basic struct ures that characterise the Web and how standards and methods for expre ssing chemical content by this means have evolved during the last thre e years, We outline some of the challenges that face the chemical and related scientific communities in adopting this new medium as an infor mation tool, with a focus on electronic journals and electronic confer ences.