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---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [CHMINF-L] RSC Publishing launches Project Prospect Date: Thursday 01 February 2007 15:13 From: Valerie Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted on behalf of Richard Kidd February 1, 2007 Dear colleagues RSC Publishing, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, is pleased to announce a new initiative for its journals. From February 2007 electronic RSC journal papers will be enhanced so that their data can be read, indexed and intelligently searched by machine, a first step towards the "semantic web". Readers will be able to click on named compounds and scientific concepts in an electronic journal article to download structures, understand topics, or link through to electronic databases; compounds and ontology terms will be published as RSS feeds enabling automated discovery of relevant research. The initiative, coined 'Project Prospect', is the first of its scope from a primary research publisher. Developed together with UK academics based at the Unilever Centre of Molecular Informatics and the Computing Laboratory at Cambridge University, the Project uses InChIs (IUPAC's International Chemical Identifier for compounds); OBO ontology terms (Open Biomedical Ontologies: a hierarchical classification of biomedical terms) such as the Gene Ontology (GO) and the related Sequence Ontology (SO); terms from the IUPAC Gold Book; and CML (Chemical Markup Language: a means to describe molecular information in a structured form). This is a completely free service for authors and readers of RSC journals. The enhanced articles have an at a glance HTML view with additional features accessed by a tool box. Downloadable compound structures and printer friendly versions will be available via this new service. 'Project Prospect demonstrates our commitment to invest in innovative technologies to provide our authors and readers with the best publishing service available', said the RSC's Acting Managing Director, Robert Parker Midori Harris, GO's editor from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Hinxton, UK, welcomes the developments: 'We're delighted by the RSC's decision to use GO and SO terms to annotate scientific papers they publish. It's an exciting application of ontologies that will help researchers search the ever-growing body of scientific literature more quickly and effectively. We hope to see more publishers following the RSC's example in the future.' The RSC intends to develop the Project over the coming months and years to increase the amount of structured science in their research articles. To find out more about the project please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit the project website at http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/ProjectProspect/index.asp With best wishes, Richard Kidd Manager, Editorial Production Systems DISCLAIMER: This communication (including any attachments) is intended for the use of the addressee only and may contain confidential, privileged or copyright material. It may not be relied upon or disclosed to any other person without the consent of the RSC. If you have received it in error, please contact us immediately. Any advice given by the RSC has been carefully formulated but is necessarily based on the information available, and the RSC cannot be held responsible for accuracy or completeness. In this respect, the RSC owes no duty of care and shall not be liable for any resulting damage or loss. The RSC acknowledges that a disclaimer cannot restrict liability at law for personal injury or death arising through a finding of negligence. The RSC does not warrant that its emails or attachments are Virus-free: Please rely on your own screening. CHMINF-L Archives (also to join or leave CHMINF-L, etc.) http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/chminf-l.html Search the CHMINF-L archives at: https://listserv.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/wa-iub.exe?S1=chminf-l Sponsors of CHMINF-L: http://www.indiana.edu/~libchem/chminfsupport.htm ------------------------------------------------------- -- CUBIC blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Blue-obelisk mailing list Blue-obelisk@hardly.cubic.uni-koeln.de http://hardly.cubic.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/blue-obelisk
