Where does the crystallography come from?
There are thousands of crystal structures published in online journals every month. When an author has a structure published, they are obliged to provide the (complete) output of the structure elucidation experiment (in the form of a CIF file) as supplementary material. As this supplementary data is a set of facts and is not part of the article full-text it does not fall under the copyright, and it should therefore be free to both view and download. We have created a web spider which ‘listens’ for new journal issues to be published and checks them for any CIF files. Upon finding a CIF file, it is downloaded and the data within is then recommunicated by passing it through the CrystalEye system. In the near future, we hope to extend the system to aggregate from Institutional Repositores, and also provide a method for self deposition.
