XCITR is a repository for exploring and sharing chemical information teaching resources. Register today and contribute materials that you have produced for sharing with others.

One of the critical issues in chemical information involves the availability and distribution of instructional material. The intensive needs of users of electronic chemical information have made it very difficult for instructors to cope with the large variety of available data sources containing increasingly vast amounts of data and many different searching tools and user interfaces. Available resources for teaching materials are also widely scattered.

As a successor to the Clearinghouse for Chemical Information Instructional Materials created by Gary Wiggins at Indiana University in the mid-1980’s, 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. We invite you to register and contribute materials that you have produced for sharing with others.

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.

Guenter Grethe, René Deplanque, Andrea Twiss-Brooks, and Grace Baysinger