This is a "vendor presentation" that I gave in New Orleans on June 14th 2010. It is a very general presentation on ChemSpider relevant to the needs of librarians.
8. Where is chemistry online?
Encyclopedic articles (Wikipedia)
Chemical company databases
Metabolic pathway databases
Property databases
Patents with chemical structures
Drug Discovery data
Scientific publications
Blogs/Wikis
Why not integrate it all?!
10. A Pragmatic Vision
“Build a Structure Centric Community”
Integrate chemical structure data on the web
Create a “structure-based hub” to information and
data
Provide access to structure-based “algorithms”
Let chemists contribute their own data
Allow the community to curate/correct data
22. RSC Databases
Direct links into six Royal Society of Chemistry
databases
Mass Spectrometry Bulletin
Laboratory Hazards Bulletin
Methods in Organic Synthesis
Catalysts and Catalyzed Reactions
Natural Product Updates
Analytical Abstracts
29. How “Big” is ChemSpider?
Nearly 25 million compounds, >400 data sources
A crowdsourced deposition and curation platform
Grows daily – more depositions, more data
But now also a publishing platform for the community
36. ChemSpider Multimedia Content
The web is of course a multimedia host today
ChemSpider is a multimedia host for Chemistry
Images
MP3s
Videos
Chemistry data: spectra, crystal structures
41. Differences between ChemSpider,
Reaxys and SciFinder
Everything on Reaxys and Scifinder is curated
The data resources can be over a 100 years old
The platforms are commercial and “read-only”
ChemSpider is free, to everyone
Data are in a state of ongoing curation & annotation
Data resources are from the “electronic era”
Data are expanded daily and enhanced on an
ongoing basis
The platform delivers integrated algorithm access
43. Semantic Linking of Publications
What would you want
to link off a structure?
Chemical suppliers
Other publications
Analytical Data
Related Reactions
Wikipedia
Patents
“Everything”
44. Chemistry on the Internet FUTURE
The “semantic web” for chemistry is in place
Crowdsourcing is commonplace
Chemists will search the web by “structure”
Chemistry articles indexed and searchable
Reduced number of searches to find data because
data are integrated – compounds, vendors,
syntheses, data, publications and patents
A world of Open Access and Open Data
45. Community Contribution
ChemSpider wins “Community
contribution” best practice award”
ChemSpider wins I-Expo innovation award, Paris,
France, June 2010