Accelerating Change Amidst Stability

Abstract

The publication of Issue 1 from Volume 100 of the Journal invites discussion of the path by which this landmark has been achieved. Over many years, the Journal has served as a key source for curated works about the teaching and learning of chemistryand these activities continue apace as the 100th volume is reached. At the same time, major changes in academic journal publishing have improved the processes used in producing the Journal. The past 25 years, in particular, have seen robust advances for publishing technology, and this recent history is recounted here.

How to Celebrate a Century of Publishing

“…Sitting among the archives of the Journal of Chemical Education shown in the graphical abstract represents an opportunity to contemplate not only chemistry education, but time as well. While the past 25 years have been exhilarating in the pace of change they have brought, 1 the presence of nearly 100 years of the printed word about teaching and learning chemistry provides a specific kind of grounding. The pages of the archive now span 100 volumes of the Journal.…”