The Royal Society of Chemistry announced today that it has acquired ChemSpider, heralding a breakthrough investment for the organisation and for the Chemistry Community.
This acquisition reflects RSC's commitment to providing access to rich resources of chemistry data and information. This complements RSC's existing leading role in online chemistry, including award-winning semantic mark-up technology and the release of the InChI resolver, recently launched in partnership with ChemSpider. ...
The ChemSpider development team will continue to be located in the USA and the ChemSpider website will be re-launched later in the year.
... Antony Williams, president of consulting firm ChemZoo and the lead developer of ChemSpider, told BioInform via e-mail that ChemSpider has been "free access with no price barriers to access and that is intended to continue." Williams will serve as vice president of strategic development for ChemSpider at the RSC. ...
Williams said there will be fees for some of the web services set to be created in the future, "but this is already that way that ChemSpider operates." ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 5/14/2009 11:27:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
