The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced a new subject-based repository that will make it easier for researchers to find and share relevant journal articles and data from a single point of access.
The initial release will provide an article repository as a central point through which users can access the Royal Society of Chemistry’s open access articles, whether they are funded immediate open access articles, or articles that must be made open access after an embargo period, such as those funded by RCUK, the Wellcome Trust or NIH. This article repository will be available at the end of October 2013.
The Chemical Sciences Repository will point to the Article of Record as the primary source. It will make open access versions of the article available when any embargo period expires.
The Royal Society of Chemistry will announce additional elements to the data repository in the coming months. Work is already underway with major UK universities around data extraction and upload, Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) integration, and micropublishing. Offering functionality with chemical scientists specifically in mind, the repository will support the building of validation and prediction models to maximise the value and quality of the data collections.
