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The past illuminates the future

The past illuminates the future. Phil Abrahams Customer Services Director RSC Publishing ACS, Division of Chemical Information 13th September 2006.

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The past illuminates the future

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  1. The past illuminates the future Phil Abrahams Customer Services Director RSC Publishing ACS, Division of Chemical Information 13th September 2006

  2. “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 What is knowledge?

  3. “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants” Isaac Newton, 1675 Knowledge accumulates…

  4. Distinct pieces of structured content that live… …like plankton

  5. …and interact Knowledge blooms

  6. It dies Covered by later sedimentary layers of content (Listen to the snapping sound of an over-stretched analogy) Bedrock

  7. The RSC “Bedrock”/Archive • Archive launched December 2003 • Now 1841-2004 articles • 1.4m pages, 240,000 articles • All content (+ adverts) • XML abstracts 1965ff • ↔ Reference linking 1990ff • 200Gb data • Athens-authenticated access

  8. Pricing model • Outright purchase • Self-host • RSC-host + nominal maintenance fee • Annual lease • Consortia/multi-site

  9. Search Full-text Bibliographic Abstract Reference links post-1990, back & forth CAS links British Chemical Abstracts (i.e. pre-CAS) Functionality

  10. http://rsc.org/Publishing/librarians/SuperArchiveTop10.asp 2nd most popular product after Chemical Communications 14% total usage Anecdotal usefulness of British Chemical Abstracts 10s of years of abstracting all chemical literature before CAS starts Usage patterns

  11. (Just in case) • 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 • 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 • 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 • 4. Rules for ring closure Jack E. Baldwin Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1976

  12. 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 • 6. Preparation and use of tetra-n-butylammonium per-ruthenate (TBAP reagent) and tetra-n-propylammonium 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 • 7. Recent advances in the chemistry of noble gas elements N. K. Jha Royal Institute of Chemistry, Reviews, 1971

  13. 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 • 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 • 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

  14. 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),3179-3191DOI:10.1039/B409980J )

  15. Usage patterns

  16. Usage patterns (normalised)

  17. DOI Redirects

  18. How the future will re-illuminate the past… • Linking’s the thing: • Tag chemicals • Link to resources • Link experimental data • Use InChI • Classify • Improved views • Scalable

  19. How the future will re-illuminate the past… • Text mining • Subject terms • Ontologies • Chemicals • Roll-out on current papers 2007, then Archive… • Automated subject mapping (e.g. Ali Baba) • Researcher-links (e.g PubMed)

  20. …Through the looking glass • Chemicals • Subjects • People

  21. What’s next? • Content-tagging to allow: • Package-specific archives • Journal-specific archives • Pre-launched journal content • Functionality mark up to allow • Books archive

  22. RSC Books Archive 750 digitised books Googling: full text, chapter-by-chapter On sale now – booth #622-5 Launching November at Online Information, London One-time fee - £9000 ($17000) What’s next?

  23. 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/CampaignsStrategy/C4CS/index.asp Where does the money go?

  24. Summing up • Highest use T-5y – but: • Long tail of usage • Searching options are key • Usage boosted from date of • Abstract search capability • Reference linking capability • More sales, different emphasis, expected • More functionality being added • Your money returns to chemistry

  25. Thank you: Questions Phil Abrahams E: abrahamsp@rsc.org T: 0044 1223 432301 F: 0044 1223 426017

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