Vendor Session: ChemSpider, from Royal Society of Chemistry

Innovations in Publishing Collaboration WHAT? Business model WHY?

Innovations in Publishing Collaboration WHAT? Business model WHY?

Royal Society of Chemistry  International Learned Society  Professional body for 46,000 chemists  Not-for-profit  International publisher  Education facilitator  Campaigning organisation  Library and Information Centre flickr.com/photos/willzukphotos/ /

RSC Publishing

Innovation in Publishing  1995 – CLIC  1999 – XML  2003 – OSCAR  2007 – Prospect

Prospect  Data mine chemistry  Identifying chemical terms in context  Uniquely identify chemical compounds  Semantic markup 2007

Capsaicin

What is ChemSpider?  An online database for science  Over 21 million compounds, linking over 200 data sources  A collaborative curation platform for the public to assist in improving the quality of data  A deposition platform to extend the data  A “Community for Chemists”  Free to access

Advancing the Chemical Sciences  Support publishing  Collaboration  Education  Business models

Publishing RSC ACS Nature Anyone

Collaboration Publishers Chemical Vendors Databases Chemical Community Universities ChemInformatics Electronic Lab Notebooks

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ChemSpider Education

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ChemSpider Development  Building Community  Handling massive data sets  Central services for publishers  ChemSpider Synthesis  ChemSpider Education

Graham McCann Twitter: ChemSpiderman

By June 2009…  By June 2009 > 6000 users/day initiating over 80,000 transactions per day  We had a significant following in the “internet Chemistry” community  We were linked to from many other sites – Wikipedia, other online databases, from commercial software packages

Collaboration

Other Social Networking Tools  ChemSpider presently has a presence on:  The ChemSpider Blog  The ChemSpider Forum  YouTube  Antony Williams, ChemSpiderman is on  LinkedIn  The ChemConnector Blog  SlideShare  Twitter