Higly recommended, in the current issue of Nature (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7179/full/451648a.html ): Peter Murray-Rust's ambitious and inspiring vision of the future of free exchange of, and wide access to scientific information, particularly in chemistry. The "emerging world of e-science or cyberscholarship" which "seeks to develop the tools, content, and social attitudes to support multidisciplinary, collaborative science". Many fascinating and promising initiatives are mentioned, including Blue Obelisk (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16711717 ) (http://blueobelisk.org ), an on-line community that encourages openness in chemistry, and the Jmol community. The article includes a screenshot of Jmol within the CrystalEye resource (http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/crystaleye/ ), which provides open data (http://www.opendefinition.org/ ) for crystallographic information and coordinates on chemical compounds. A number of exciting projects are mentioned, including DBpedia, greasemonkey, and the Nature Publishing Group-provided discussion forums for open science in the virtual reality world Second Life.
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