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ChIN as an Internet Chemistry Web Guide
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1997: With the recognition of Internet
as a new powerful media for chemical information and communication, ChIN Web site was created to
promote ChIN's activities and to help chemists making use of Internet chemistry resources with
co-support of UNESCO Offices, Jakarta and Beijing in 1997. ChIN site serves not only as an archive
of ChIN's symposia (including scientific programs, paper abstracts, participants lists and reports
on the symposia) as well as introductions to ChIN, but also, even more importantly, as a web-based
guide for chemical resources on Internet.
ChIN-Manager: A completely new version of ChIN site
(http://www.chinweb.com.cn/) started running on Internet
since May 2000 that was accessible both in Chinese and English. Resource descriptions were edited
with the aid of a specific tool ChIN-Manager, by which automatic generation of the whole guide was
made possible since then.
2002 - : The construction of ChIN site was fully enhanced as
the Chemistry Portal, Chinese National Science Digital Library
(CSDL) since 2002. The major features such as Resources
categorization according to chemistry disciplines, automatic Subject/keywords searching in summary
pages and cross links among the closer related summary pages were implemented since then. More over,
the resource selection policies and organization guidelines (in Chinese) were published in ChIN site
in hope that users could gain better understanding of how chemical resources are selected and
organized, so as to make the best use of ChIN. The resources
selection policies and organization guidelines of ChIN were adopted by 5 Hot Topic Portals of NSTL, China's National Science and Technology Library, launched in 2005.
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Last updated on 2005-06-27
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