Chemical structures in University theses and dissertations are often never published in the chemical literature. As a result, these structures are challenging to discover, as they are not indexed by secondary abstract and indexing operations. Many university libraries have started to share theses and dissertations openly on their digital institutional repository websites. While open sharing of full text theses and dissertations has certainly improved access to university chemical information via keyword searching, specific chemical structure and search discovery is still largely absent for university theses and dissertations. This presentation will provide an update on how the University of Alabama Libraries is extracting chemical structures from theses and dissertations and sharing them openly on PubChem. The PubChem substance records are then linked to the dissertation/thesis record at the Institutional Repository and Catalog, greatly increasing the discovery of chemical structure data from university research. We will discuss our workflows, challenges and opportunities with our approach, in particular considering aspects of linking data, data quality, provenance, and copyright.<br/>

Sharing and linking chemical structure data on Pub Chem and institutional repositories

Macromolecular Chemistry: The Second Century

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