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The role of open standards in publishing chemical information

A symposium entitled “Wikis, Blogs and Podcasting: Creating and Distributing Chemistry Teaching Materials in the Information Age” will be held as part of the national meeting of the German Chemical Society in Ulm, Sept. 16. – 19.. 2007, organized by the “Chemistry-Information-Computers (CIC)” division of the German Chemical Society and the “Chemical Information (CINF) division of the American Chemical Society. I’ve just submitted the abstract for my talk in this symposium and here it is:

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Interactive Open Access and Collaborative Peer Review

An interesting article by Ulrich Poeschl on Interactive Open Access Publishing and Collaborative Peer Review in the latest issue “Forschung & Lehre” describes a publication process practiced for example by “Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics” and sister publications. In a first step putty download windows , a submission is immediately published as a “discussion paper” in the online discussion forums of the journal …

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