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gobElins and gMelin’s: European Influences on an American Chemistry Librarian

gobElins and gMelin’s: European Influences on an American Chemistry Librarian. Gary Wiggins SLIS 2001 Distinguished Alumni Award Lecture Halloween, 2001. Gobelins: The East European Connection. Elena Ceausescu.

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gobElins and gMelin’s: European Influences on an American Chemistry Librarian

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  1. gobElins and gMelin’s:European Influences on an American Chemistry Librarian Gary Wiggins SLIS 2001 Distinguished Alumni Award Lecture Halloween, 2001

  2. Gobelins: The East European Connection

  3. 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.” http://www.stabi.hs-bremerhaven.de/gbs2/whkmla/region/balkans/rumania196889.html

  4. Elena Ceausescu’s Publications in SciFinder Scholar • 117 references

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

  6. The Periodic Table of the Elements

  7. Friedrich Konrad Beilstein,1838-1906 • Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry

  8. Beilstein Institut Web Site

  9. Leopold Gmelin, 1788-1853 • Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry

  10. Gmelin Lives! • In 1999, the Gmelin database was revived through a partnership with Beilstein Information Services and the GDCh.

  11. Gmelin Fullerene Record

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

  13. 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 http://www.chemweb.com/dymond

  14. Dymond in Action - 1

  15. Dymond in Action - 2

  16. Dymond in Action - 3

  17. 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.

  18. Peter Willett’s Program at Sheffield

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

  20. Chemical Informatics • Chemical informatics provides the tools to acquire, organize, and evaluate data, yielding new insights for further chemical research.

  21. 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

  22. The Little Red Book A good idea with the wrong info technology.

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

  24. CHEMINFO

  25. CHEMINFO Usage Data, January-September 2001 • Successful requests: 1,701,709 • Average successful requests per day: 6,233 • Successful requests for pages: 324,945 • Average successful requests for pages per day: 1,190 • Distinct files requested: 2,346 • Distinct hosts served: 79,168 • Average data transferred per day: 22.158 Mbytes

  26. CHEMINFO’s Most Popular Page in 2001 • Tables Removed from CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 71st through 79th Editions http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/crc_xtabs_71-79.html • 10,656 requests for this page!

  27. IU Chemical Information Center

  28. Dziekuje! Hvala vam puno! Spasibo! Thanks! Thank you very much! Thank you! . . .

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