Henry Rzepa's Blog

Two years ago, I posted on the topic “Internet Archeology: reviving a 2001 article published in the Internet Journal of Chemistry (IJC)”.[1] The IJC had been founded in 1998,[2]  in part at least to “re-invent” the scholarly journal by elevating research data to being a more integrated part of the overall article, rather than as the previously conventional addendum of SI (Supporting Information)^‡. IJC was in one sense following on from an earlier such project dating from 1995[3] by taking it to the next level. Sadly, the pioneering IJC journal had gone off-line in 2004 and the content for around 100 articles was thought lost. It happened that I still retained the original source and associated data for one article of mine and my post[1] described how I managed to get it back into more or less full working order. Now Egon Willighagen[4] has cleverly found a way of rescuing many more of these lost articles, thanks to various Web-based infrastructures: (more…)

References

1. H. Rzepa, "Internet Archeology: reviving a 2001 article published in the Internet Journal of Chemistry.", 2024. https://doi.org/10.59350/xqerh-wam97
2. S.M. Bachrach, and S.R. Heller, "The<i>Internet Journal of Chemistry:</i>A Case Study of an Electronic Chemistry Journal", Serials Review, vol. 26, pp. 3-14, 2000. https://doi.org/10.1080/00987913.2000.10764578
3. D. James, B.J. Whitaker, C. Hildyard, H.S. Rzepa, O. Casher, J.M. Goodman, D. Riddick, and P. Murray‐Rust, "The case for content integrity in electronic chemistry journals: The CLIC project", New Review of Information Networking, vol. 1, pp. 61-69, 1995. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614579509516846
4. E. Willighagen, "The Internet Journal of Chemistry", 2025. https://doi.org/10.59350/2ss5b-jpr33