1. Vendor Session: ChemSpider, from Royal Society of Chemistry

2. Innovations in Publishing Collaboration WHAT? Business model WHY?

3. Innovations in Publishing Collaboration WHAT? Business model WHY?

4. 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/2335689688/

5. RSC Publishing

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

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

9. Capsaicin

10. 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

12. www.chemspider.com

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

39. Publishing RSC ACS Nature Anyone

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

41. InChI InChI=1/C27H46O/c1-18(2)7-6-8-19(3)23-11- 12-24-22-10-9-20-17-21(2 ​ 8)13-15- 26(20,4)25(22)14-16-27(23,24)5/h9,18- 19,21-25,28H,6-8,10- ​ 17H2,1-5H3/t19-,21+,22+,23-,24+,25+,26+,27-/m1/s1

42. ChemSpider Education

43. Business Models $

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

46. Graham McCann (mccanng@rsc.org) Twitter: ChemSpiderman www.chemspider.com/

47. 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

48. Collaboration

49. 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