Scientific publisher RSC Publishing and its free database ChemSpider have integrated chemical semantic publishing across its chemical publications, and in collaboration with University of Manchester have made it accessible from the article PDF via the Utopia Documents reader.
ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast access to over 26 million structures, properties and associated information. By integrating and linking compounds from more than 400 data sources, ChemSpider enables researchers to discover a comprehensive view of freely available chemical data from a single online search.
RSC has extracted chemical names from all its journal publications from 2008-2010 (over 30,000 articles), and has integrated the primary compounds of interest into ChemSpider. Readers of the article HTML on the RSC's Publishing Platform can highlight compounds, and click on them to link directly through to ChemSpider's compound record to discover additional data and compound information sources. The compounds will also be visible from the article's abstract page.
Users of ChemSpider can discover these compounds via a text or structure search and, from a result, find the relevant references from RSC journal content and other integrated information sources. The project will run routinely on all new journal articles published by RSC and be extended further back into the RSC's 170-year archive.
The free Utopia Documents reader can use this semantic information in the RSC's enhanced articles to deliver this highlighting and linking functionality to RSC PDFs. Now readers of RSC PDF articles can use Utopia Documents to highlight and link from compounds directly through to ChemSpider and other information sources.
Both RSC and the Utopia Documents team are part of the Open PHACTS drug discovery consortium , which will be using the same technology to link disparate pharmacological data sources together under one view.
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