Since the launch of RSC Prospect in February 2007, more than 750 HTML journal articles have been enhanced by in-house technical editors.   

The reader experience for these articles is augmented by the addition of a number of features, accessible by a Toolbox. They provide: 

• Hyperlinked compound information within the text, featuring: 
  • The compound name with synonyms 
  • The InChI (IUPAC's Chemical Identifier) 
  • SMILES strings for the compound 
  • A downloadable CML (Chemical Markup Language) file 
  • A 2-D graphic of the compound    
• Gene, Sequence and Cell Ontology terms linked to definitions and related articles 
• Links to IUPAC Gold Book terms    

Article number 750, published in ChemComm, reveals a unique mechanism of action of a polyketide synthase. Russell Cox, one of the authors from the University of Bristol, was very pleased to see the article had been enhanced: 

"The additional features certainly allow readers of the article to quickly link to very many other sources of related and supporting information. I can see that this will build into a very powerful resource as more links between papers are formed." 

The article is freely available for a limited time to all readers - take a look today! 

Development will continue over the coming months and years to increase the amount of structured science in research articles published in RSC journals.