Enhancing Learning with Online Resources, Social Networking, and Digital Libraries
- ISBN: 0841226008
- DOI: 10.1021/bk-2010-1060
Abstract
Accessing information about chemicals distributed across the Internet is, in many ways, too easy. Chemists simply type in the name of a chemical of interest into a search engine and then wade through the results hoping to find a result matching their query. Such approaches are limited to the whims of text-based matching and it can be very time-consuming to wade through pages of results attempting to segregate the various types of information retrieved. ChemSpider is a free online structure database developed with the intention of aggregating and linking chemical structure based information and data across the Internet. Containing almost 25 million unique chemical entities and linked out to over 300 data sources ChemSpider offers the ability to perform both text and structure-based searches to resource information such as chemical vendors, properties, analytical data, patents, publications and a myriad of other information. While enabling this broad form of searching for chemical data across the Internet ChemSpider has also assumed a key role in allowing the community to expand and improve the online data by providing a platform for community deposition, annotation and curation. As a result the ChemSpider Web site has become a crowdsourcing environment for chemists to expose their own activities to the community and participate in creating the richest single resource for chemistry related information available online and, in keeping with the nature of the Web, for free.
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