The best way for newcomers to LC/MS to start gathering information is by talking to colleagues or associates in your industry who already have LC/MS capabilities. They will likely have both a technology and applications perspective on your particular problems. Three other information gathering avenues are:

1. Read a basic LC/MS text or a comprehensive LC/MS review in your field

2. Take a LC/MS short course, and

3. Check out the following useful internet resources:

• SpectroscopyNOW

• SeparationsNOW

• The Amercian Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS and their journal: J Am Soc mass Sptrom

• MS Links

• Novatia

• IonSource

• I-Mass

• Separation Science

• On-line glossary of MS terms

• Atomic Weights of the Elements 2009 (IUPAC)

• Tables of Isotopic Masses & Natural Abundances (Wikipedia) search for "Natural Abundance", "Isotopes" & individual elements (i.e., isotopes of carbon)

• On-line glossary chromatography and electrophoresis terms

• Table of Isotopic Masses & Natural Abundances

• National Center for Biotechnology Information

• and this page "The LC/MS Homepage"

This Figure reproduced from "A Global View of LC/MS," (2002) with permission from Global View Publishing, Pittsburgh, PA.