2. gobElins and gMelin’s: European Influences on an American Chemistry Librarian Gary Wiggins SLIS 2001 Distinguished Alumni Award Lecture Halloween, 2001

3. Gobelins: The East European Connection

4. Elena Ceausescu “The writings of many Rumanian scientists were published under the name of Elena Ceaucescu, who is quoted asking why she would not be suggested for the Nobel prize in chemistry, despite 'her' many publications.” http://www.stabi.hs-bremerhaven.de/gbs2/whkmla/region/balkans/rumania196889.html

5. Elena Ceausescu’s Publications in SciFinder Scholar 117 references

6. Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev, 1834-1907 Discoverer of the Periodic Table

7. The Periodic Table of the Elements

8. Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, 1838-1906 Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry

9. Beilstein Institut Web Site

10. Leopold Gmelin, 1788-1853 Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry

11. Gmelin Lives! In 1999, the Gmelin database was revived through a partnership with Beilstein Information Services and the GDCh.

12. Gmelin Fullerene Record

13. Elsevier Science Many chemistry journals Science Direct MDL Information Systems BioMedNet.com ChemWeb.com Beilstein database Gmelin database

14. Elsevier’s Dymond Initiative Dymond (Dynamic Metadata on Demand) Clicking on a structure or reaction in a primary journal initiates a database search Integrates journal articles with information in databases or visualization software Beilstein, Combined Chemical Dictionary, Autonom Chime representation Future: property and spectra predictions and links to other databases/applications with structure searching http://www.chemweb.com/dymond

15. Dymond in Action - 1

16. Dymond in Action - 2

17. Dymond in Action - 3

18. Informatics ( Informatika ) From the OED: informatics [tr. Russ; informatika (A. I. Mikhailov et al. 1966, in Nauchno-tekhnicheskaya Informatsiya XII. 35), f. information: see –ics. ] Informatics studies the technical, psychological, and social aspects of information technology and the way people work with and use information.

19. Peter Willett’s Program at Sheffield

20. Master of Science in Informatics Programs Human Computer Interaction Health Informatics Bioinformatics Chemical Informatics

21. Chemical informatics provides the tools to acquire, organize, and evaluate data, yielding new insights for further chemical research.

22. WWW: Tim Berners-Lee 1989: he invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics LaboratoryWorld Wide WebCERN Since 1994: at MIT

23. The Little Red Book A good idea with the wrong info technology.

24. Chemical Reference Sources Database (CRSD) http://www.indiana.edu/~libchem/crsd.html

25. CHEMINFO

26. CHEMINFO Usage Data, January-September 2001 Successful requests: 1,701,709 Average successful requests per day: 6,233 Successful requests for pages: 324,945 Average successful requests for pages per day: 1,190 Distinct files requested: 2,346 Distinct hosts served: 79,168 Average data transferred per day: 22.158 Mbytes

27. CHEMINFO’s Most Popular Page in 2001 Tables Removed from CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 71st through 79th Editions http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/crc_xtabs_71-79.html 10,656 requests for this page!

28. IU Chemical Information Center

29. ... Dziekuje! Hvala vam puno! Spasibo ! Thanks! Thank you very much! Thank you!