ChemSpider Blog

Readers of this blog will know we have a focus on enabling chemists to source information via both Open AND Closed access publishers with the aim, ultimately, of providing a way to perform structure and substructure searching of these articles. This work is well underway.

If you visit our Literature Search Page you will see that we have recently added the ACS AuthorChoice Free Access articles to the index and we will continue to index on an ongoing basis.  There are very few ACS AuthorChoice articles to search but the usual validation search of “Searching Taxol”  it does turn up one hit.

“Herding Nanotransporters: Localized Activation via Release and Sequestration of Control Molecules (Nano Lett. 2007 Volume 8 Issue 1 Page 221) - American Chemical Society

… 1 mM MgCl, 1 mM EGTA, pH 6 .9) containing 10 micromolar taxol for stabilization and kept at room temperature (20 C). Caged -ATP and “

Those of you who read the ChemSpider blog for a while will know the name of Paul Docherty who writes on his TotallySynthetic blog. I have a great appreciation for Paul’s writings and, with permission, have started associating his blog posts directly with the structures, literally inserting the entire blog post, but NOT the comments, into a description for the molecule. For example, see the structure here. We’ve started to go back through Paul’s postings and make his entire collection structure searchable… see totallysynthetic.chemspider.com. There are a lot of old posts to deposit and time will get us there. Everything is posted under CC licenses and with permission.

Paul also writes for the RSC in Chemistry World as, for example, here. With permission from the RSC we are inserting snippets of the article into ChemSpider and linking out to the Chemistry World article, for example: here and here. If you are a registered user you can link your own articles on your websites using the Add URL functionality or you can deposit your own postings onto our site in the same way…feel free to ask us how.