ABSTRACT
Introduction ............................................................................................................ 171 Surveying the Use of Current Tools ....................................................................... 172
Subject 1 ............................................................................................................ 172 Subject 2 ............................................................................................................ 173 Subject 3 ............................................................................................................ 174 Subject 4 ............................................................................................................ 174 Points for Consideration .................................................................................... 175
The Advent of Electronic Articles and Books: The Librarian’s Perspective.......... 176 Waiting for the Great Leap Forward ...................................................................... 179
Liberation of Information in Journal Articles ................................................... 179 Metadata ............................................................................................................ 180 Strong Security Where Necessary ..................................................................... 180 An Open Lab Culture Where Possible .............................................................. 181
Concluding Remarks .............................................................................................. 183 References .............................................................................................................. 184
In the previous chapters, the problem of information overload was discussed, and a variety of technical methods of extracting, linking, and mining chemical information were introduced. In this chapter, we discuss the mining of chemical information from the researcher’s point of view, particularly how academic and industry researchers currently fi nd the information they need, diffi culties and unmet opportunities in mining information, and, fi nally, some examples of how new technologies may help researchers manage the overload of information in the future.
