There are significant challenges associated with making content from a multiauthor reference work searchable, retrievable and readable online. This task was made more complicated in the case of Science of Synthesis  because of the scale and scope of the project.  The online product which includes the Houben�Weyl  archive (going back 100 years) covers hundreds of volumes and thousands of pages with contributions from over 1,500 authors.Science of Synthesis  is now a unique, structure searchable, full-text resource in organic synthesis that provides the user with expert-evaluated methods. The online product combines full-text browsing functionality together with InfoChem's modern structure and reaction search capabilities. This talk describes how we overcame the various technical hurdles in order to achieve this. We also give specific examples of the features and functionality included in the product in order to help the researcher gain access to relevant content quickly. For example:A clean and simple user-interface design makes comprehensive searching straightforward. Useful navigation aids such as breadcrumbs and an interactive table of contents facilitate browsing.Intuitive text search options allow quick access to relevant content. Advanced text searching options help the user to define more complicated queries. The manual preparation of a name reaction index and the use of deep indexing enable the association of transformations with specific named reactions even if they are not mentioned as such in the full text.The �All-in-One� structure and reaction search from InfoChem provides a broader spectrum of weighted hits.  The relevant ranking of hits using the InfoChem algorithm for structure and reaction searching as well as the MarkLogic algorithm for text searching helps the user to rate the quality of their results quickly and determine which information is of interest to them. Faceted navigation of the hitlist helps the user to further refine their results.

Search and navigation functionality for a major reference work online: SOS 4.0

247th National Meeting (2014)

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