Comments on: When a Scientific Blog Posting, Data Licensing and Open Data Access Come Together http://www.chemspider.com/blog/when-a-scientific-blog-posting-data-licensing-and-open-data-access-come-together.html Building Community for Chemists Tue, 21 May 2013 16:16:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Zsolt Zsoldos http://www.chemspider.com/blog/when-a-scientific-blog-posting-data-licensing-and-open-data-access-come-together.html/comment-page-1#comment-48435 Zsolt Zsoldos Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:04:17 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=587#comment-48435 Thank you for the supporting comments. It is refreshing to see that ChemSpider also includes freely available crystallographic data. With open competition like CrystalEye and ChemSpider, CSD no longer has their former monopoly on the scientific data, which is a very good development on its own — competition is always better than monopoly. The community based curation process of ChemSpider will improve the quality of the data available here, so CCDC would be better off focusing on their value added services to keep and extend their user base instead of acting like Big Brother to enforce their Orwellian licensing policy.

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