Mar 10, 2008

Copyright and CAS Numbers

Posted in Chemspy at 4:43 pm by David Bradley -- 6 Comments; add yours

There’s discussion all over the chemical blogosphere at the moment about copyright and CAS numbers Chemspider’s Tony Williams first broached the subject in his blog and has followed up here. Cameron neylon has touched on the issue here as too have PeterMR and Kurt Wegner. If I’ve missed any links, please leave a reference to your post in the comments.

Anyway, here’s a thought…

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Mar 3, 2008

Chemical MSDS Sheets

Posted in Chemspy at 8:39 am by David Bradley -- 1 Comment

Material safety data sheets (MSDS) is a perennial search favourite on the Chemspy site. The site has its own MSDS section and a javascript widget you can even add to your own site to allow your visitors to search for chemical MSDS sheets (yes, I know it’s a tautology on two counts, chemical material safety data sheets sheets, but like PIN number and “ATM machine”, the phrase is in common parlance.

Anyway, follow the link to …

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Feb 26, 2008

YACJ - Nature Chemistry

Posted in Chemspy at 11:14 am by David Bradley -- Click to comment

April 2009 sees the launch of yet another chemistry journal, this one coming from Nature Publishing Group. It will, apparently, “provide a unique forum for the publication of high-quality research in all areas of chemistry.” Well, they would say that, they’re hardly going to tell us it’s a run-of-the-mill publication offering tedious and dead-end research, are they?

The launch site usefully reminds us that, “Chemistry is concerned with the study of matter on all …

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