The Beilstein Journals are one of the first chemistry journals to extract and disseminate machine-readable chemical structures and the first to include these structures as FAIR chemical data in published articles. As of February 2025 we make chemical semantics machine-readable and accessible to bots and crawlers, meaning that chemical structure information can be automatically processed from articles within the limits of current chemical standards. Within our publishing workflow, chemical structures extracted from ChemDraw files provided by authors and are curated and digitized, then embedded as metadata in the full text HTML and XML versions of the published articles.
The structures become Findable - thanks to the InChI standard. They are Accessible by identifier and standard protocols. This work is Interoperable as we have used JSON-LD and vocabularies/schemas from Schema.org. And importantly, structures are Reusable as all information in the Beilstein Journals has been published under a CC BY Attributions License.
