The aim of each volume of this series Guides to Information Sources is to reduce the time which needs to be spent on patient searching and to recommend the best starting point and sources most likely to yield the desired information. The criteria for selection provide a way into a subject to those new to the field and assists in identifying major new or possibly unexplored sources to those who already have some acquaintance with it. The series attempts to achieve evaluation through a careful selection of sources and through the comments provided on those sources.

The bibliography covers physics, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, astronomy, biology, geology, agriculture, medicine, environment, energy, equations, manufacturing, materials, measurement, carcinogens and pesticides.

Steel is a critical material in our societies and will remain an important one for a long time into the future. In the last two decades, the world steel industry has gone through drastic changes and this is predicted to continue in the future. The Asian countries (e.g. China, India) have been dominant in the production of steel creating global over-capacity, while the steel industry in the developed countries have made tremendous efforts to reinforce its global leadership in process technology and product development, and remain sustainable and competitive. The global steel industry is also facing various grand challenges in strict environmental regulation, new energy and materials sources, and ever-increasing customer requirements for high quality steel products, which has been addressed accordingly by the global iron and steel community. This Special Issue, “Ironmaking and Steelmaking”, released by the journal Metals, published 33 high quality articles from the international iron and steel community, covering the state-of-the-art of the ironmaking and steelmaking processes. This includes fundamental understanding, experimental investigation, pilot plant trials, industrial applications and big data utilization in the improvement and optimization of existing processes, and research and development in transformative technologies. It is hoped that the creation of this special issue as a scientific platform will help drive the iron and steel community to build a sustainable steel industry.

Allenmark (microbiological chemistry, U. of Gothenburg) gives a thorough treatment of chiral chromatography, covering basic theory, methods (particularly stationary phase design), and applications. Treatment is self-contatined; early chapters explain principles, incorporating background material on organic stereochemistry; later ones cover instrumentation, preparation, synthesis, and analysis. Includes in-depth coverage of liquid chromatographic methods and discussion of industrial uses for large-scale preparative resolutions, including column sample capacity, chromatographic reproducability, and automatic operation. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR