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72to the journal. Less frequently, the editor looks for new books throughpublishers’ advertisements, and have them ordered.In chemistry, specifically in the case of JACS, the editor himself sometimesfunctions as a reviewer, too:[C]In many cases the review editor ends up reviewing the book to get it out of theway.This additional attribution may be due to the fact that in chemistry, scholars veryoften publish papers and books, making it very hard for editors to find a person availableor willing to dedicate time to writing a criticism on someone else’s book. However, thechemistry editor tends to seek (according to him, without much success) for top namesin the field, despite being aware of the difficulty. C indeed defines the task ofdetermining who is going to review what as ‘a matter of desperation’:[C]You use every possible source: knowledge of who is an expert in which area,colleagues, friends, any source. The preface and the introduction [of the book]may give a clue about who might be the experts in that field. Alsoannouncements from the NSF (National Science Foundation) about who gotresearch grants provide clues about who is an expert in which field. The editorthen matches the list of names with the list of titles awaiting for being reviewed(generally 700 books a year). A lot of reviews in JACS were done that way.Data banks are specially helpful in BR editing. Filled with names of scholars whohave expertise in specific areas, these data banks provide editors with additional