On 7/23/21 4:04 PM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
I am interested in mining the content of chemical preprints and have a
number of questions.
* who is running the preprints server/s? The ACS appeared to be
involved but now it looks like CUP? Is this a single function/site?
What is the history?
* CUP seemed to state that there would be an API on day one, but it's
not obvious to me
* is anyone else interested in mining/indexing content? I would be
happy to talk.
* is the only format PDF? (I'm resigned to that and can cope)
* is machine-processable chemistry of any sort deposited? on any
systematic basis? required or optional?
* is any material (e.g. chemical structures, spectra, etc. deposited?
can it be easily retrieved?
A few links that you might find helpful:
1) for the early phase of the service:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6301/740 and
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.6b07008
2) for the more recent evolution: https://connect.acspubs.org/chemrxiv
(thanks for pointing out the managerial change, by the way... I might
have missed it!)
3) for almost everything else:
https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/submission-information ; an API is
mentioned, but without an endpoint it isn't very useful. The CUP
announcement says that an API will become (future tense) available in
the near future. The announcement is 6 days old, I assume it will take a
couple of weeks at least.
I assume the content will be mostly PDF, sometimes better (with
structured data for X-ray structures or spectra, for example), sometimes
worse (according to the FAQ Powerpoint presentation are accepted...
shudder).
Best regards,
Alain Borel
EPFL Library
CH-1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)
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