EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Today's scientists make discoveries and breakthroughts so rapidly that last year's knowledge is already yesterday's news. Scientific journals keep adults abreast of the most recent developments in technology, medicine, astronomy, and more. But no news source reports these developments to young people in the kind of language and format that they can grasp. No news source, that is, except Today's Science On File--the first and only subscription service to report and index science news for students aged 12 and up.

From biology to chemistry to outer space, students will quickly become engrossed in the fast-breaking stories covered in Today's Science On File. The inviting format, complete with lively visuals and involvement devices, will draw them in and--once intrigued--the absorbing articles will spark learning and understanding of today's science news.

Published twelve times a year, with ten issues appearing during the school year, Today's Science On File brings today's science breakthroughts right from the laboratory to the library and classroom. Each issue provides thought-provoking articles that cover hot scientific topics such as global warming, AIDS, robotics, and gene therapy.

All of the information in Today's Science On File can be quickly retrieved through a new cumulative index tha comes with each issue and that references material by both name and subject. Even novice researchers can find what they want in no time at all. At the same time, each indexed issue of Today's Science On File helps build a permanent reference archive on your library shelf.

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Articles/Further Reading/Keywords.

-Science News Briefs.

-Science and Society.

-Computers.

-Biology.

-Awards.

-Behaviour.

-Environment.

-Space Roundup.

-Astronomy.

-Science News Updates.

-AIDS Updates.

-Medicine.

-Medical News In Brief.

-Biomechanics.

-Botany.

-Genetics.

-Archaelogy.

-Technology.

-Quantum Mechanics.

-Physics.

-Wildlife News In Brief.

-Biotechnology.

-Oceanography.

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OUR REVIEW

Today's Science On File is a true mine of scientific information and divulgation in English. A publication that should be present at public libraries, colleges and universities.

Its philosophy is very simple: scientific discoveries take place at such a vertiginous speed that the textbooks cannot display all this knowledge with due promptness. There certainly are specialized, periodical publications that solve this problem, yet most of them are aimed at an adult readership having a certain background.

Today's Science On File, on the other hand, is aimed at young people from 12 years old on, accommodating its articles and news to the interests of those who in the future will have to take the reins of scientific research. It appears monthly and is distributed via subscription, in a format that can easily be stored thanks to its ringed covers specially designed for this purpose.

Each one of the issues published addresses its readership in a clear, understandable language, no matter the theme dealt with. The fields covered by Today's Science on File range from ecology and the environment, to medicine and health, the life sciences (biology, botany, zoology), astronomy and space exploration, technology, geology and meteorology, to physics and to chemistry. The basic information comes from no less than 25 periodicals and scientific magazines, some of them being as important and well known as Science, Nature, Discover, etc.

Each one of the articles included are accompanied by an extensive bibliography and a relation of key words that facilitate to continue with the research on the theme dealt with in databases, Internet, etc.

Periodically, the subscribers receive a special issue where a complete index and a glossary corresponding to the previous issues are included, which increases their usefulness once they are filed.

In a few words, this is a unique publication in its genre that in 1997 has reached its fifth volume and that has a promising future.