A number of Journals or professional societies exist which cover the topics of Near-Infrared and/or Process Analysis Technologies. These are worth reading. Some of the more useful are:

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Magazine. Articles on process improvements, webinars, editorials and blogs, audio tracks; cutting edge articles on PAT and QbD. (www.PharmaManufacturing.com and www.KnowPharma.com)

Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy First and only refereed journal devoted to Near-Infrared, published in the UK, applications and theory of NIR are covered

NIR News Current topics in NIR, news articles, abstracts of published articles on NIR, columns by experts in spectroscopy, Chemometrics, andstatistics.

Spectroscopy Magazine Applied spectroscopy articles. Continuing series by Howard Mark and Jerry Workman named "Statistics in Spectroscopy" containing Chemometrics and Statistics for NIR projects; theory and applcations.                                                     

Society for Applied Spectroscopy All aspects or spectroscpy; local sections; sponsor conferences, premier journal Applied Spectroscopy

Council for Near Infrared Spectroscopy Founded in 1986, the Council works to foster NIR; sponsors the IDRC (Chambersburg) conference [now the site of the Hirschfeld Award, sponsored by Buchi]; sponsors Birth Award for NIR research and publishes a newsletter, maintains an citation index of NIR publications.

There are suppliers of "third-party" software, independant of instrument manufacturers. These exist because instrument companies do not have the resources to constantly upgrade their software packages. Perhaps the most useful (for all Chemometric applications) is called The Unscrambler by a company named Camo. Sold and used in dozens of countries and in numerous universities, this is a must-have for any NIR researcher.

                                  

 There are a number of consultants in the field who can design and build custom instrumentation, design and write custom software for NIR, or help design entire IT networks for QbD/PAT applications:

PAT/QbD:
John E. Carroll  
Over 35 years of instrumentation, pharmaceuticals (R&D and Marketing); Will assist clients in building PAT/QbD teams, financial justification of QbD, hardware integration into prgram.

Martin Warman    
                   
Based in the UK, Martin is available for IT and QbD work. He was one of the main forces in Pfizer's predominance in the PAT/QbD field

Instrumentation:

John Coates, Ph.D.        Coates Consulting
Many years of custom design and building spectrometers for specific uses.

Specialty Chemometric/Statistical Software, Statistical Design, Chemometrics:

Howard Mark, Ph.D.        Near Infrared Research Corporation
Over 30 years of experience in Chemometrics, statistics, software writing, and instrument design for NIR, Howard is a world-class consultant, author and lecturer. My co-presenter for the ACS and CfPA NIR Short Courses and coworker for 25 years.