February 2007

ISI Web of knowledge On the 9th of february, the IMA secretariat was informed that Thomson Scientific has selected our web site at http://www.ima-mineralogy.org/ for inclusion in Current Web Contents™ (http://scientific.thomson.com/products/cwc/faq/), a selection of scholarly web sites complementing the journal coverage in Current Contents Connect®, the Web of Science®, and other ISI Web of KnowledgeSM applications. Thomson Scientific developed high selection standards (http://scientific.thomson.com/free/essays/selectionofmaterial/cwc-criteria/), specialized to the medium, for Current Web Contents, their ever-growing collection of high-quality, scholarly web sites. Thomson Scientific Web Content Editors have visited the IMA website, reviewed it, developed a standardized descriptive record, written an abstract, and created a link from ISI Web of Knowledge to he IMA website site. Commission and Working group news Isabelle Memmi, Chair of the sub-commission on Cultural Heritage and Archaeological Materials (CAM-CHAM) has informed (1st February 2007) on the occurrence of the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, which will be held in Siena, Italy, 12-16 May 2008. The Invitation letter from Isabella Memmi is joined. Complementary information on the Symposium is available at the following website: http://www.unisi.it/eventi/isa2008/ In addition the objectives of the CAM-CHAM has been precised (16 February 2007): In the framework of the strategy of IMA-CAM commission, the sub-commission CAM-CHAM aims to co-ordinate and organize conferences, seminars, workshops and short-courses devoted to Cultural Heritage and Archaeological Materials, in particular ceramics and ceramic coating, glass, metals, pigments, plasters and other building materials. The scope is to emphasize the role that mineralogy plays and could play in studying these materials and to encourage interaction between mineralogist and other people working in the Cultural Heritage field, archaeologist, physicians, chemists and art historians. Mineralogical society news Mineralogical Group of the Geological Society of Norway Nigel Cook is the new National Representative of the mineralogical group of Norway, replacing Gunnar Raade, which was designed in April 1985. Nigel Cook was appointed in January 2007. G. Raade is a member of the CNMNC, and Nigel Cook, the chair of the COM. Mineralogical Branch of the Geological Society of Slovenia On the 18th of January, the IMA secretariat was contacted by the Mineralogical Branch of the Slovene Geological Society to join IMA. The Slovene group contains 20 members. The Slovene group would be the 39th society/group joining IMA, after formal acceptance by the IMA council. The IMA secretariat is in contact with Dr. Meta Dobnikar. Dr. Meta Dobnikar's address: Naravoslovnotehnika fakulteta, Univerza v Ljubljani Oddelek za geologijo Akerãeva 12 SI-1000 Ljubljana tel.: +386 1 4704 636 fax.: +386 1 4704 560 e-mail:meta.dobnikar@ntf.uni-lj.si Mineralogical Society of Canada (MAC) List of members of Commissions and Working Groups established by the IMA Secretariat (February 2007). This MAC list is actually checked by the Canadian National Representative and by the members of IMA Commissions - Working Groups. IMA statistics Acces statistics : http://www.ciril.fr/stats/www/www.ima-mineralogy.org/ (1st February 2006) IMA Archives (1st February 2006) The IMA website history is summed up within a new IMA website page. The record of the IMA website is stored within Internat Archives which are located in the Presidio of San Fransico since 1996, thanks to the decision of the first IMA webmaster, Marco Pasero.