Transcript PPT - ACS Division of Chemical Information

The past illuminates
the future
Phil Abrahams
Customer Services Director
RSC Publishing
ACS, Division of Chemical Information
13th September 2006
What is knowledge?
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We
know a subject ourselves, or we
know where we can find information
on it. When we enquire into any
subject, the first thing we have to do
is to know what books have treated
of it. This leads us to look at
catalogues, and at the backs of
books in libraries”
Samuel Johnson, Boswell’s Life of Johnson
Knowledge accumulates…
“If I have seen further it is
by standing on the
shoulders of giants”
Isaac Newton, 1675
…like plankton
• Distinct pieces of
structured content
that live…
Knowledge blooms
…and interact
Bedrock
• It dies
• Covered by later
sedimentary layers of
content
• (Listen to the snapping sound
of an over-stretched analogy)
The RSC “Bedrock”/Archive
• Archive launched December 2003
• Now 1841-2004 articles
• 1.4m pages, 240,000 articles
o All content (+ adverts)
o XML abstracts 1965ff
o ↔ Reference linking 1990ff
o 200Gb data
• Athens-authenticated access
Pricing model
• Outright purchase
o Self-host
o RSC-host + nominal maintenance fee
• Annual lease
• Consortia/multi-site
Functionality
• Search
o Full-text
o Bibliographic
o Abstract
• Reference links post1990, back & forth
• CAS links
• British Chemical
Abstracts (i.e. preCAS)
Usage patterns
• http://rsc.org/Publishing/librarians/S
uperArchiveTop10.asp
• 2nd most popular product
o after Chemical Communications
o 14% total usage
• Anecdotal usefulness of British
Chemical Abstracts
o 10s of years of abstracting all
chemical literature before CAS starts
(Just in case)
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1. Synthesis of thiol-derivatised gold nanoparticles in a two-phase Liquid–Liquid system
Mathias Brust, Merryl Walker, Donald Bethell, David J. Schiffrin and Robin
Whyman
Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1994
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2. Molecular beam studies of the interaction of oxygen with silver surfaces
David A. Butler, Age Raukema and Aart W. Kleyn
Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions, 1996
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3. Synthesis and reactions of functionalised gold nanoparticles
M. Brust, J. Fink, D. Bethell, D. J. Schiffrin and C. Kiely
Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1995
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4. Rules for ring closure
Jack E. Baldwin
Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1976
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5. The preparation and properties of tris(triphenylphosphine)halogenorhodium(I) and some
reactions thereof including catalytic homogeneous hydrogenation of olefins and
acetylenes and their derivatives
J. A. Osborn, F. H. Jardine, J. F. Young and G. Wilkinson
Journal of the Chemical Society A: Inorganic, Physical, Theoretical, 1966
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6. Preparation and use of tetra-n-butylammonium per-ruthenate (TBAP reagent) and tetra-npropylammonium per-ruthenate (TPAP reagent) as new catalytic oxidants for alcohols
William P. Griffith, Steven V. Ley, Gwynne P. Whitcombe and Andrew D. White
Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1987
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7. Recent advances in the chemistry of noble gas elements
N. K. Jha
Royal Institute of Chemistry, Reviews, 1971
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8. CCLXXI.—Degradation of quaternary ammonium salts. Part III
Thomas Stevens Stevens, William Whitelaw Snedden, Eric Thomas Stiller and Thomas
Thomson
Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed), 1930
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9. A study of the nucleation and growth processes in the synthesis of colloidal gold
John Turkevich, Peter Cooper Stevenson and James Hillier
Discussions of the Faraday Society, 1951
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10. A new method for the deoxygenation of secondary alcohols
Derek H. R. Barton and Stuart W. McCombie
Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1, 1975
Example of use
• Historic reference
– A historical study of structures for
communication of organic chemistry
information prior to 1950 (Dr Helen Cooke,
OBC, 2004, (22),3179-3191
DOI: 10.1039/B409980J )
Usage patterns
Usage patterns (normalised)
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DOI Redirects
Total DOI redirects:
CrossRef June 2006 Actuals
800
700
Total DOI redirects
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How the future will re-illuminate
the past…
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Linking’s the thing:
Tag chemicals
Link to resources
Link experimental data
Use InChI
Classify
Improved views
Scalable
How the future will re-illuminate
the past…
• Text mining
o Subject terms
o Ontologies
o Chemicals
o Roll-out on current papers 2007, then
Archive…
• Automated subject mapping (e.g. Ali Baba)
• Researcher-links (e.g PubMed)
…Through the looking glass
• Chemicals
• Subjects
• People
What’s next?
• Content-tagging to allow:
o Package-specific archives
o Journal-specific archives
o Pre-launched journal content
• Functionality mark up to allow
o Books archive
What’s next?
• RSC Books Archive
o 750 digitised books
o Googling: full text,
chapter-by-chapter
o On sale now – booth
#622-5
o Launching November
at Online Information,
London
o One-time fee - £9000
($17000)
Where does the money go?
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Technical & product investments
Research grants
Support networks – local + international
Teacher training
Chemistry communication
Conferences
Policy support/Policy execution
Campaign for chemical sciences
http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/CampaignsStrat
egy/C4CS/index.asp
Summing up
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Highest use T-5 – but:
Long tail of usage
Searching options are key
Usage boosted from date of
o Abstract search capability
o Reference linking capability
• More sales, different emphasis, expected
• More functionality being added
• Your money returns to chemistry
Thank you: Questions
Phil Abrahams
E: [email protected]
T: 0044 1223 432301
F: 0044 1223 426017