The internet is significantly impacting the evolution of chemistry research and discourse through the rise of online communication channels like blogs, open-access journals and citizen science. During the last few years blogs and related websites have established themselves as frontline venues for discussing the latest scientific advances, debunking bad science and facilitating informal but pointed conversation about diverse topics of interest to the chemical community. These topics include academic funding, the chemistry job market, peer review, scientific misconduct and graduate life. The internet has also enabled two other harbingers of scientific change: open-access journals and crowdfunding. While the former has greatly expanded the circle of scientific arbiters and beneficiaries, the latter allows scientists to experiment with alternative models of funding and ordinary citizens to support and actively observe the scientific process. All these online ecosystems are serving as �second tiers� of research and critical review, complementing and sometimes challenging established formal modes and norms of scientific inquiry and communication. This talk will take a look at the past, present and potential future of chemical science seen through the rise of this crucial internet-based landscape of scientific dialogue and analysis.

Impact of information technology on chemistry and related sciences

247th National Meeting (2014)

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