We’ve just deposited our ChemSpider structure collection onto PubChem. It amounted to just shy of 18 million compounds. We set a target of 20 million compounds in our database by end of year....
We already rolled out an alpha version of the structure deposition gateway and had feedback from a few testers. There has been some re-engineering on the back end and some significant improvements to speed up the approval process for publishing the data online. It will unveil in the next few days....
What we are looking for now are more depositors who are interested in depositing their data onto ChemSpider. These data can be from commercial databases, open access/free access databases or from personal data collections. There are significant benefits to the depositors in terms of creating awareness for your data and hopefully driving traffic to your websites (if appropriate). I’ve put together a short overview [18 slides] regarding the benefits for depositors and you can read it here....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/06/2007 09:49:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
