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Entries from June 27th, 2007

Even better HTML Slidy presentations with Marvin Applets

June 27th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Open Science, Publishing, Teaching

Putting chemistry into presentations can be a pain in the neck. Keeping it up-to-date is even worse. When I access elderly presentations of mine, where I put ChemOffice stuff into Powerpoint via OLE, I can be absolutely sure that the information is lost, after moving to Linux, Open Office and free structure editors. But there [...]

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3. German Conference on Chemoinformatics

June 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Chemoinformatics, CIC, Conferences and Meetings, Life of Chris

The Chemistry-Information-Computer (CIC) division of the German Chemical Society announces the 3. German Conference on Chemoinformatics (21. CIC-Workshop) to be held in Goslar, Germany, November 11-13, 2007.

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The role of open standards in publishing chemical information

June 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Open Science, Publishing

A symposium entitled “Wikis, Blogs and Podcasting: Creating and Distributing Chemistry Teaching Materials in the Information Age” will be held as part of the national meeting of the German Chemical Society in Ulm, Sept. 16. – 19.. 2007, organized by the “Chemistry-Information-Computers (CIC)” division of the German Chemical Society and the “Chemical Information (CINF) division [...]

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Interactive Open Access and Collaborative Peer Review

June 3rd, 2007 · No Comments · Open Standards, Publishing

An interesting article by Ulrich Poeschl on Interactive Open Access Publishing and Collaborative Peer Review in the latest issue “Forschung & Lehre” describes a publication process practiced for example by “Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics” and sister publications. In a first step, a submission is immediately published as a “discussion paper” in the online discussion forums [...]

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