gobElins and gMelin’s:European Influences on an American

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Gary WigginsSLIS 2001

Distinguished Alumni Award LectureHalloween, 2001

Gobelins: The East European Connection

Elena Ceausescu “The writings of many Rumanian

scientists were published under the name of Elena Ceaucescu, who is quoted asking why she would not be suggested for the Nobel prize in chemistry, despite 'her' many publications.”

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Elena Ceausescu’s Publications in SciFinder Scholar 117 references

Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev,1834-1907 Discoverer of the Periodic Table

The Periodic Table of the Elements

Friedrich Konrad Beilstein,1838-1906 Beilstein Handbook of Organic

Chemistry

Beilstein Institut Web Site

Leopold Gmelin, 1788-1853 Handbook of Inorganic and

Organometallic Chemistry

Gmelin Lives! In 1999, the Gmelin database was

revived through a partnership with Beilstein Information Services and the GDCh.

Gmelin Fullerene Record

Elsevier Science Many chemistry journals Science Direct MDL Information Systems BioMedNet.com ChemWeb.com Beilstein database Gmelin database

Elsevier’s Dymond Initiative Dymond (Dynamic Metadata on Demand)

Clicking on a structure or reaction in a primary journal initiates a database search

Integrates journal articles with information in databases or visualization software

Beilstein, Combined Chemical Dictionary, Autonom Chime representation Future: property and spectra predictions and links

to other databases/applications with structure searching

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Informatics (Informatika) From the OED:

informatics [tr. Russ; informatika (A. I. Mikhailov et al. 1966, in Nauchno-tekhnicheskaya Informatsiya XII. 35), f. information: see –ics.]

Informatics studies the technical, psychological, and social aspects of information technology and the way people work with and use information.

Peter Willett’s Program at Sheffield

Master of Science in Informatics Programs Human Computer Interaction Health Informatics Bioinformatics Chemical Informatics

Chemical Informatics Chemical informatics provides the

tools to acquire, organize, and evaluate data, yielding new insights for further chemical research.

WWW: Tim Berners-Lee 1989: he invented the

World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory

Since 1994: at MIT

The Little Red Book

A good idea with the wrong info technology.

Chemical Reference Sources Database (CRSD)http://www.indiana.edu/~libchem/crsd.html

CHEMINFO

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