Jeffery Loo – UC Berkeley

TYPE: Seminar

METHODS: Initiated, organized, and promoted the seminar.

SPEAKER: Dr. Antony Williams.  He is the Vice President of Strategic Development at the Royal Society of Chemistry and is the host of ChemSpider, a free online structure centric community for chemists.

AUDIENCE: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley personnel, and researchers interested in online collaboration, data storage and curation, data exchange, crowdsourcing, and open access.

FORMAT: 90 minute presentation

DATE AND VENUE: March 24, 2010 – Building 50 Auditorium, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

ABSTRACT: The increasing availability of free and open access resources for scientists on the internet presents us with a revolution in data availability. The Royal Society of Chemistry hosts ChemSpider, a free access website for chemists built with the intention of building community for chemists (http://www.chemspider.com/).

ChemSpider is an aggregator of chemistry related information, at present over 20 million unique chemical entities linked out to over 300 separate data sources, ChemSpider has taken on the task of both robotically and manually curating publicly available data sources. It is also a public deposition platform where chemists can deposit their own data including novel structures, analytical data, synthesis procedures and host data associated with the growing activities associated with Open Notebook Science.

This presentation will examine chemistry on the internet, the dubious quality of what is available and how the ChemSpider crowdsourced curation platform is fast becoming one of the centralized hubs for resourcing information about chemical entities.

We will also review our efforts to provide free resources for synthesis procedures, spectral data and structure-based searching of the chemistry literature and how chemists can contribute directly to each of these projects.

Following the presentation and a question and answer session, a hands on session showing how to search for, curate and deposit data on ChemSpider will be given for interested parties.

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PURPOSE: To draft survey questions for an evaluation of the UC Libraries Springer Pilot agreement for open access publishing.

TYPE: Questionnaire

AUDIENCE: Springer Journal Open Access Pilot Task Force, University of California

METHODS: Drafted a questionnaire based on the findings from a literature review

RESULTS: The draft survey is currently being reviewed.

TYPE: Report

AUDIENCE: Springer Journal Open Access Pilot Task Force, University of California

PURPOSE: To identify potential survey questions and research findings to test for an evaluation of the UC Libraries Springer Pilot agreement for open access publishing.

METHODS: Reviewed 8 studies that examined scholarly communication or evaluated open access publishing.

RESULTS:

• A concept map illustrating a framework for evaluating open access (Full text PDF)
• A spreadsheet identifying pertinent research findings for testing and surveying (Full text PDF)

PREVIEW:

TYPE: Presentation

AUDIENCE: LBNL Research Services Team

PURPOSE: An introduction to the UC Berkeley Library resources and services – and how Berkeley Lab personel may access them.

FORMAT: 20 minute presentation and 40 minute discussion and demo.

SUMMARY:

• Your Berkeley Lab status determines your level of access to UCB Library services and resources.
• There is a variety of resources and services, including e-resources, print books, instructional events and workshops, and reference services.
• There are different ways for acquiring UCB Library cards and IDs for access – but when in doubt, contact the Privileges Desk at Doe Library.

PARTICIPANT HANDOUT: Full text PDF

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