Query Chem is a new search engine for chemistry. It will accept text search terms, a search string in the SMILES chemical nomenclature, or a drawing of a chemical structure (like Chmoogle). From the description by its developer, Justin Klekota:
Query Chem lets you combine chemical structure and text searches by finding the names of structures similar to your query structure and combining them with user-specified search terms which are all then sent to Google. Query Chem's search results are prioritized by their relevance to your chemical structure and your optional search terms combined. Query Chem has many of the features of Scifinder Scholar since it also links to Google Scholar (with the added bonus that it's free). Its greatest strength is that it's not limited to a single database, but instead it captures the structure-property relationships embedded in the text of journals, commercial web sites, public databases, and any other HTML document indexed by Google.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/30/2005 05:01:00 PM.
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.
