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Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten. Sieh dir dieses Video auf www.youtube.com an oder aktiviere JavaScript, falls es in deinem Browser deaktiviert sein sollte. Have you ever noticed how much easier it is to learn about something when you have a name for it? Take the simple question of why scientists continue to publish in traditional print journals.

Is it just me or are others having problems resolving Wiley DOIs? For example, this one (direct) worked and then a few minutes later started giving the error: I’ve seen this with other Wiley DOIs as well during the course of an ongoing project. The problem occurs and then some time later appears to go away. Any ideas as to what’s up?

At Metamolecular, we’re hard at work developing a new Web-based chemical information service.

Igor Pletnev recently announced the availability of a prerelease version of InChI-1.03. This represents the first public update to the InChI software since January 2009, when version 1.02 was released. Source can be downloaded here.

My last article on why chemists don’t use rss generated a lot of discussion, both in comments and via email, so I started thinking about a solution.

Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten. Sieh dir dieses Video auf www.youtube.com an oder aktiviere JavaScript, falls es in deinem Browser deaktiviert sein sollte. Over the last few years, I’ve been conducting an informal survey of the working bench chemists I know on the subject of RSS/Atom Feeds and Feed Readers. I started taking this question seriously after several discussions in which I described what I was doing with Metamolecular.

[Flash Content Scrubbed] During a recent talk at the Spring 2010 American Chemical Society Meeting, I spoke about Chempedia and Chempedia Lab, and what makes them unique among chemical information systems. One aspect that seemed to get a lot of interest was the idea that the successful scientific information systems of the future would be designed around compelling game mechanics. Game what?

Chempedia: A Social Medium for Chemical Information from Richard Apodaca I recently gave a presentation about Chempedia and Chempedia Lab at the Spring 2010 ACS in San Francisco. The symposium that this talk was part of (“The Future of Scholarly Communication”) was thought-provoking and at times visibly charged.

I’ll be giving a talk at the upcoming ACS on Chempedia - with a dash of Chempedia Lab. If you’re interested in breaking down barriers to using the Web for scientific communication, I’d be interested in meeting with you.

I know it’s common practice to cite impact factors to three decimal places, but really, if you’re near the bottom of the heap does that extra digit really matter?