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Some publishers hesitate a bit, but others go full speed ahead into the electronic publishing era.\nNoel commented on my post about OA/OD inviting added value :

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I heard a talk by the RSC at the ACS, saying that their RSS feeds contain\nInChIs now! Just thought I’d throw that out there :-)

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The RSC Project Prospect is ahead of other\npublishers, for over a year already .\nAdding InChIs to RSS feeds are a cheap way of adding machine-readable chemistry to ones publishing\npipeline; adding CML would allow much more detail (see\nthis overview of CMLRSS information in my blog).

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But, importantly, it allows third-parties to efficiently set up DOI-InChI tables. Cheap (Asian?) workers become\nrather expensive, when compared to machine mining to create such databases. Sure, the authoring becomes\nsomewhat more expensive, but who will argue that scientists might be a bit more precise in what they\npublish. I, for sure, would love to see authors focus on adding InChIs to experimental sections, then\nthat they focus on getting EndNote to put the comma, bold and upper casing in the right place, to meet\njournal standards.

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Another publisher who takes its job seriously is Beilstein.\nStephan recently showed me some of the things they are up too, like information rich figures (yes,\nyou’ll have access to the source, and identify the molecular structures in reaction schema). He\nalso showed me to the RDF now by default available for all their articles. For example, for\nDOI:10.1186/1860-5397-3-50,\nthe RDF is available here.\nIt’s indicated in the HTML with:

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<link rel='alternate' type='text/rdf' title='RDF' href='http://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/content/rdf/1860-5397-3-50.rdf'/>\n
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There is, actually, also a lot of citation information available in the <meta> tags in the HTML,\nbut apparently not the right stuff yet to have Zotero pick it up nicely\n(not sure what this Firefox plugin is actually looking for). No chemistry in the RDF it seems,\nbut there is BIBO ,\nFOAF and Dublin Core.

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Main suggestion to Stephan, right now, would be to include InChIs in the RDF and RSS feed.

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Disclaimer: Colin, behind \nProject Prospect, visit our group when I was still in Cologne; Stephan contributed code bits\nto the CDK project, e.g. this this Matrix class.

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Oh, Nature is,\nof course, also a publisher who actively gets into electronic publishing age.

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References

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Bogár, K., Martín-Matute, B., & Bäckvall, J.-E. (2007). Large-scale ruthenium- and enzyme-catalyzed dynamic kinetic resolution of (rac)-1-phenylethanol. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/1860-5397-3-50 CrossRef Scholia
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