Library Faculty/Staff Scholarship and Research
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Item The complexity of chemical information: Interview with Gary Wiggins(Chandos Publishing (Imprint of Elsevier), 2015-07-24) Baykoucheva, SvetlaGary Wiggins was the head of the Indiana University (IU) Chemistry Library from 1976 to 2003. During the final four years of his professional career, he served as Director of the Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics Programs in the IU School of Informatics, helping to create one of the first graduate programs in the United States that offer specialized training in cheminformatics. For many years, he taught courses in chemical information and science reference at IU. His textbook, Chemical Information Sources, was eventually converted to a Wikibook. Dr. Wiggins received several prestigious awards throughout his career, including the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Information’s Herman Skolnik Award and the Patterson-Crane Award of the ACS Columbus and Dayton Sections. He was also elected to the Special Libraries Association Hall of Fame. Much of his research involved the improvement of teaching information literacy to chemistry and science students and the improvement of communication among scientists. In May 1991, Gary Wiggins started a chemical information discussion list, CHMINF-L, in Indiana University. Through the years, this forum became an institution of its own, providing a medium for exchanging information and ideas and attracting people interested in chemical information, but who approached it from different perspectives. In this era of social media, it is surprising that an e-mail Listserv based on technology developed over 20 years ago is still thriving. In many ways, CHMINF-L is still the information source for everyone from chemists to science librarians and publishers.Item Past and present of FIZ CHEMIE Berlin: Interview with Dr. René Deplanque, Managing Director(American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2010) Baykoucheva, Svetla; Deplanque, RenéSvetla Baykoucheva interviews Dr. René Deplanque, Managing Director of FIZ CHEMIE Berlin. Dr. Deplanque discusses the development of cheminformatics in Germany, the role of librarians, and the atmosphere in Berlin today, after the reunification.Item Political, cultural, and technological impacts on chemistry: An interview with Michael Gordin, Director of Graduate Studies of the Program in the History of Science, Princeton University(American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2011) Baykoucheva, Svetla; Gordin, MichaelSvetla Baykoucheva interviews Dr. Michael Gordin, Director of Graduate Studies of the Program in the History of Science at Princeton University, about his research and views on the history of chemistry. Dr. Gordin is the author of a book on Dmitrii Mendeleev (the Russian chemist who created the Periodic Table of Elements). Dr. Gordin has also published books on Russian science and the early history of nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union.Item Chemistry and art: The Incredible life story of Dr. Alfred Bader(American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2007) Baykoucheva, Svetla; Bader, AlfredSvetla Baykoucheva, editor of the Chemical Information Bulletin, wrote an article about Dr. Alfred Bader, founder of the Aldrich Chemical Company and a renown expert on Rembrandt and Old Dutch Masters paintings. An interview with Dr. Bader is also included.Item Internet resources for scientific writing(American Chemical Society, 2001) Baykoucheva, SvetlaDiscusses Internet resources for scientific writing; connection of portals to online resources provided by educational institutions, professional organizations, publishers and consulting firms; accessibility of direct links to scientific articles and manuals; features of scientific databases in providing specific tools.Item A new era in chemical information: PubChem, DiscoveryGate, and Chemistry Central(Information Today Inc., 2007) Baykoucheva, SvetlaThe article discusses how the creation of PubChem, the introduction of DiscoveryGate, and the emergence of Chemistry Central are changing the field of chemical information. PubChem is a free service that was launched by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2004 to provide information on small organic molecules. DiscoveryGate boasts the largest collection of chemical properties. The collaboration between a free (PubChem) and a proprietary service (DiscoveryGate) is a new model for providing scientific information. Chemistry Central is an open-access scientific publisher in the United Kingdom.Item The Royal Society of Chemistry: Harboring the genius of innovation(Information Today, Inc., 2008) Baykoucheva, Svetla; Kidd, RichardAn interview with Richard Kidd, manager of informatics at Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Publishing, is presented. He discusses the RSC's Project Prospect and how it was planned and developed. He states that they have applied enhancements to selected articles from all journal titles. Kidd also says that Project Prospect is still the first real application of semantic enhancement to primary research literature.Item A career in science and politics: Guy Ourisson (1926-2006)(American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2007) Baykoucheva, SvetlaItem Interview with Eugene Garfield(American Chemical Society, Division of Chemical Information, 2006) Baykoucheva, Svetla; Garfield, Eugene