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12 December 2014

Wishing you a Merry Crystal-mas from DataCite UK

As 2014 draws to a close, it has been another busy year for us here at the Library running DataCite UK. Over the past 12 months the number of organisations that are now using DataCite DOIs in the UK has gone up to 26.

One highlight from earlier in the year was the minting of 3millionth DOI, which you can find here: http://doi.org/10.5517/CCPHZ37. This was minted as part of the work by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre to assign DOIs to their crystallographic datasets. This has been a particularly nice milestone to have as 2014 has been the International Year of Crystallography.

In this year of crystallography, CCDC are by no means the only crystallography database getting DOIs for their data. Both eCrystals (http://ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk/) based at Southampton and the SPECTRa project at Imperial (https://spectradspace.lib.imperial.ac.uk:8443/handle/10042/13) are doing the same thing.

This work now means that there are DOIs available for the crystal structure of caffeine (http://doi.org/10.5517/CCNH4QZ), paracetamol (http://doi.org/10.5517/CC4C64T) and theobromine (http://doi.org/10.5517/CC4D14P), all things that you might want to (or might need to) partake of this Christmas.

ChocolateimageTheobromine is a key flavour compound in milk and dark chocolate, and the reason you can't feed it to your pets: theobromine is particularly toxic to animals. Image from Flickr, CC-BY-NC-SA. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jhard/11399049754 

 

 

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