In October 2008, I participated in an NSF workshop on eChemistry: New Models for Scholarly Communication in Chemistry. Theresa Velden and Carl Lagoze have now published their reports. Here are the details from their press release: Public Release of...

What is going to distinguish chemistry databases as we move forward in this Web2.0 world? If I was unsure of it when I started teaching Chemical Information Retrieval 2 months ago, I certainly got my answer yesterday afternoon. Cristian Dumitrescu...

This is the lecture from the 8th Chemical Information Retrieval class at Drexel University on November 12, 2009. It starts with a demonstration of how to use of ChemSketch and Chemspider to display and manipulate chemical structures, especially those...

Mel Reichman gave an outstanding presentation at Drexel on November 12, 2009. I think many of our faculty and students benefited from his unique perspective on high throughput drug discovery and the story of Vioxx from both chemistry and intellectual...

Liz Lyon from UKOLN has just published a JISC report on Open science at web-scale: Optimising participation and predictive potential. This is a very thorough 45 page document that will serve the Open Science community well as a reference for...