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XCITR (http://www.xcitr.org) is a repository for exploring and sharing chemical information teaching resources. Register today to contribute materials that you have produced for sharing with others or access XCITR materials for teaching or personal use.

XCITR (Explore Chemical Information Teaching Resources) was developed to meet the need for an international repository of chemical information educational material. XCITR is intended not only for librarians and instructors in chemical information, but also for chemistry professors, instructors in other disciplines related to chemistry, information specialists, students, high school teachers, and even technical writers. XCITR is a hub in which librarians, instructors, and information providers can deposit and access important and useful teaching materials. Educational materials about library services and collections are also welcome.

Teaching materials in XCITR can be used for free and, if the author permits, modified according to individual needs. To help insure that items deposited fall within the scope of the collection, an editorial board will briefly review all depositions before they are made publicly available in XCITR. Allowed document files are Office files (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and PDF. Additionally, embedded videos from YouTube and slideshows using SlideShare are permitted. The inclusion of embedded websites is under development.

XCITR was opened to the public last year and contains a small, but growing, collection of ca. 50 documents. Items in the collection range from book resources for K-12 to a set of videos about searching PubChem. Check the XCITR website for a complete list of topics. In addition to material dealing with cheminformatics topics, we solicit teaching material from the areas of bioinformatics and computational chemistry. Software developers and database providers are encouraged to submit training materials and help manuals if publicly available.

XCITR is a collaborative project between the Computer-Information-Chemistry (CIC) Division of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) and the Division of Chemical Information (CINF) of the American Chemical Society (ACS). XCITR is hosted by FIZ CHEMIE Berlin, Germany. The website was developed by a group at FIZ CHEMIE Berlin and contains all the features of modern Web 2.0 technology, including user-dependent display and functionality, tag cloud and keyword linked documents, and many more. Users are encouraged to access the site and see for themselves. For questions and comments, please contact Guenter Grethe at ggrethe [at] att [dot] net or Gregor Fels at fels [at] uni-paderborn [dot] de.

Guenter Grethe, XCITR Project Coordinator