Open Access Publishing in the Chemical Sciences

The meeting provided an update of developments in the Open Access area of publishing in the chemical sciences, with eight presentations representing views of publishers, academics, librarians, information providers and the chemical industry.

1st November 2006 - Chemical Information for the Non-Chemist

Held at Burlington House, London
Organised jointly by CSA Trust and RSC-CIG

This one day training course continued the successful meeting last held two years ago. Presentations were intended for the non chemist that has to find and use chemical information.

6 June 2006 - Electronic Laboratory Notebooks

This was a joint meeting with the Computer Applications Subject Group and covered a topic of great current interest. An international team of expert speakers presented a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art of electronic laboratory notebooks, including what ELNs are, why you should consider moving to them if you have not already done so, and guidance on how to plan and manage the implementation of an ELN project.

6 April 2005 - Your Chemical Information – Unlocking the Value

Held at Burlington House, London 

The meeting dealt with important issues relating to how organisations can best store and retrieve their chemical information to maximise its value to their business. It covered both structural, textual and numeric information, current and archival, external and internal, paper and electronic data.

CIG Meetings 2004

12 October 2004 - One Day Training Course on Chemical Information for the Non-chemist

30 March 2004 - Chemical Information from Ac to Zr

A full program of eight speakers showed that there is a wealth of chemical information available in other areas beside organic chemistry and patents.

CIG Meetings 2003

30 October 2003 - One Day Training Course on Chemical Information

Organised jointly by CSA Trust and RSC-CIG This one day training course contained a series of presentations which provided an impartial and critical overview of Chemical Information products. It was given by specialists from academic information departments, vendor representatives and the pharmaceutical industry.

27 May 2003 - The Future of Chemical Information in the UK

The meeting had been organised at the suggestion of, and in close liaison with, the RSC Librarian, Nigel Lees.

CIG Meetings 2001 - 2002

20 November 2002 - Information at the Chemistry/Biology Interface

As the boundaries between Chemistry and Biology become increasingly indistinct, this meeting looked at new initiatives being developed to stimulate information exchange between these two subject areas.

18 April 2002 - Chemical Information: Maximizing the Opportunities and Minimizing the Challenges

This UKOLUK meeting was held in conjunction with CIG. Themes for the meeting ranged from delivering an information service in academia and industry, evaluating databases to aid purchase decisions to the new PsiGate Internet gateway, the RSC Library and Information Centre and the Chemoinformatics course at Sheffield.

15 March 2001 Electronic Access to Published Papers in Chemistry

The advent of the world-wide web and electronic publishing is changing the face of scholarly publishing beyond all recognition. The trend away from journals towards access to individual papers is already starting, but how far has it gone and how far will it go? 

4 October 2000 - Balancing the Budget: Cost Effectiveness of Provision of Chemical Information

This was a joint meeting of the Chemical Structure Association and the CIG. The talks were organised so that views of different interest groups (suppliers, intermediaries, academic and commercial users) could be heard.