ChemSpider is a freely accessible online database of chemicals owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
A number of available search modules are provided: The ChemSpider database has been used in combination with text mining as the basis of chemistry document markup.
The pages do not undergo formal peer-review like a scientific journal article but comments can be made by logged-in users.
While experimental methods published in an ordinary academic journal are listed formally and concisely, the procedures in ChemSpider SyntheticPages are given with more practical detail.
In February 2010 a merger was announced[16] with the Royal Society of Chemistry's chemical structure search engine ChemSpider and the formation of ChemSpider|SyntheticPages (CS|SP).
ChemSpider served as the chemical compound repository as part of the Open PHACTS project, an Innovative Medicines Initiative.