ACS Mobile
by mitch on Mar 18 2010 (5698 Views)
Credit: Linda Wang/C&EN
ACS has released an app that streams new ACS graphical abstracts to your iphone. Unfortunately you have to pay $2.99 for the app. A free alternative I wrote can be found at the mobile site for ChemFeeds.
The nice thing about my version is it works for any mobile device that gets internet and not just iphones. It also covers RSC and Elsevier journals in addition to ACS. You can email article links to yourself for later reading and even leave comments on the abstracts. Admittedly the ACS version looks sleek, but iphones only apps are worthless for us Android users.
Link to C&EN's ACS Mobile coverage: ACS Publications Go Mobile
Link to ChemFeeds Mobile: http://m.chemfeeds.com/
Note: If you are not a member of the smart phone community yet, you can still get your graphical abstracts fix at the regular ChemFeeds website: http://www.chemfeeds.com/
Mitch
Just curious how many people will get out their phones while driving or sitting in a movie and start reading abstracts.
How many?
Okay, never mind.
Dangerous Bill
Mitch, the feed page you wrote is awesome. Thanks for all these websites you contributed, including this blog. They are really helpful.
And it would be better if chemfeeds.com could be personalized. I mean it is looks nice to me if I can create an account and pick the journals I wish to follow.
@William: I already use it on the subway and during commercials at the theater.
@Zhen: upgrades will be happening later this year as time permits.