Chemistry Central Blog
We have returned from the ACS Spring Meeting in Anaheim, where we got a great response from the delegates who came to visit our booth in the exhibition hall. There was a great deal of enthusiasm for open access publishing amongst chemists. Students, researchers, librarians and educators all saw the benefits that unrestricted access to research can bring them.
There were some engaging presentations covering chemistry and the internet at Steven Bachrach’s (Trinity University) session. Steve’s presentation covered the history of the chemical internet from 1994 to the present day, touching on some of the topics he mentions in his paper Chemistry publication – making the revolution. Jean-Claude Bradley from Drexel University (who delivered his presentation remotely over the internet) spoke about open notebook science and its implications for the future. In contrast Steve Heller, project director of the InChI Trust looked at some of the implications of the chemical internet in his presentation "What is the Internet doing to chemistry and our brains". Jan Kuras at Chemistry Central also presented an assessment of open access in chemistry with a focus on the results from a recent comprehensive study of open access publishing (SOAP Project).
We will be at the fall ACS Fall Meeting in Denver later in the year and hope to see you there.
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