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

Paul May; Simon Cotton; Karl Harrison; Henry Rzepa

doi:10.3390/molecules22040549

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

Paul May, Simon Cotton, Karl Harrison, Henry Rzepa

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	549-559
Number of pages	10
Journal	Molecules
Volume	22
Issue number	4
Early online date	29 Mar 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules22040549
Publication status	Published - Apr 2017

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Online chemistry resources
Chemistry education
chemical databases

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