The ‘Molecule of the Month’ Website—An Extraordinary Chemistry Educational Resource Online for over 20 Years

Paul W. May; Simon A. Cotton; Karl Harrison; Henry S. Rzepa

doi:10.3390/molecules22040549

Molecules (Mar 2017)

The ‘Molecule of the Month’ Website—An Extraordinary Chemistry Educational Resource Online for over 20 Years

Paul W. May,
Simon A. Cotton,
Karl Harrison,
Henry S. Rzepa

Affiliations

Paul W. May: School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK
Simon A. Cotton: School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Karl Harrison: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, UK
Henry S. Rzepa: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules22040549
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 22, no. 4
p. 549

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The Molecule of the Month website (http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/motm.htm) is an educational resource that is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Here we reflect on its pioneering role in promoting new technology for visualizing and presenting chemical information on the web, as well as its achievements, as a free educational resource, both as a teaching aid and as a multi-user, multi-author learning platform. We discuss the legal aspects of such sites, as well as issues around how to make the content permanent. Finally, we look forward to how such sites may evolve in the future.

Published in Molecules

ISSN: 1420-3049 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Science: Chemistry: Organic chemistry
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/molecules

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