For those that are, are they "emasculated" chemically? By this I mean they appear in eg Acrobat form, with no easily extractable chemical components (coordinates, connection tables, spectra, etc). Are they indexed, and if so, what meta data is associated with them? Do e-dissertation projects provide good tools for authors, or are the authors expected to do it all?
Would'nt this be a perfect place to see the use of CML / XML?
Of course! We indeed have a "mini dissertation" (actually a final year project report, of about Masters standard) submitted entirely in XML, and about to be published in the New J. Chemistry in both print and via the supplemental information, in the original XML/CML. The original site around which the article was written is up at http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/chimeral/ Of course, the creation of this dissertation was non trivial, and mostly "hand authored". Its not the sort of thing the average PhD student would or could want to do at the moment. The "lowest common denominator" at the moment is viewed by libraries etc as Acrobat, and not "chemical information components". The re-use of these components is not, but will be, seen as a top priority. Their time will come! -- Henry Rzepa. +44 (0)20 7594 5774 (Office) +44 (0870) 132-3747 (eFax) Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AY, UK. http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)