STM publisher Elsevier has announced that registration is now open for participation in the Reaxys ChemSearch Challenge, a series of online quizzes that measure how quickly chemists can find the information they need to correctly answer research questions. Chemists can use their preferred chemistry database or search engine, and the response times and score accuracy will be recorded for the contest.
Chemists worldwide are invited to register to participate, either in person at Elsevier's Booth (#231) at the American Chemical Society's national meeting in Boston as of Aug. 16, 2015 or online at www.chemistrysearcher.com.
With scientific output doubling every nine years and digital channels proliferating, chemists increasingly face a deluge of data. Without the ability to integrate, access, filter and understand the relevance of the information, comprehensiveness alone can be a burden to chemists. Relying on old search methods in this new world of data may slow the pace of discovery in science. Contemporary chemistry search tools with advanced indexing methods and taxonomies are now available to chemists, enabling them to take the shortest path to relevant and accessible data.
The Challenge will run for 12 weeks, from September to December 2015. Chemists can enter at any time during the challenge, with a new set of chemistry questions available weekly to solve. A weekly leaderboard will track the best-performing entrants for each quiz; weekly prizes will also be awarded. Chemists can follow the challenge via the #ChemSearch hashtag and share results with their peers via social media. For more information, or to register for the ChemSearch Challenge, please visit www.chemistrysearcher.com.
When the ChemSearch Challenge is complete, Elsevier will analyze the data from all entrants and report on the findings; with the hope of helping the industry as a whole understand the key bottlenecks in search, as well as informing further development of products that support an era of smarter chemistry.
Reaxys® empowers chemistry research and development by providing structure, property and reaction data, experimental procedures and literature. It is designed to support early drug discovery, education, material selection and synthesis planning; its capabilities include data export and integration to enable harmonized analysis of in-house and external data. Reaxys® improves R&D productivity by delivering the facts the way chemists need them.
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