Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced the first issue of Nature Chemistry at www.nature.com/naturechemistry. The inaugural issue covers the breadth of chemistry, from inorganic microtubes to theoretical studies of how water behaves in detonations.
Nature Chemistry has evolved its production processes, including redrawing compound structures submitted by authors to be machine-readable, and converting these structures to International Chemical Identifiers (InChIs). An open source initiative, InChIs are an alpha-numeric way of representing a chemical structure. Machine-readable, InChIs enable data-mining and detailed linking between articles, databases and other information sources.
Nature Chemistry articles are annotated to identify all of the chemical compounds mentioned throughout the text. Users can choose to view the article with all of the compounds highlighted, and find out more about these compounds by linking out to other information resources including PubChem and ChemSpider. Articles published in Nature Chemistry include other innovative online features. Pop-up images of chemical structures are associated with the bold compound numbers, used to reference compounds, in article text. Users can click on the bold compound number to view enhanced compound pages. These compound pages provide Chemdraw files, 3-D structures, elemental analysis, links to external databases and other information.
Nature Chemistry will celebrate the launch of its first issue at the forthcoming American Chemical Society (ACS) spring meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. Copies of the April print issue will be available from the Nature Publishing Group booth (#1508) in the exhibition hall.
