Experience developing multidisciplinary bachelor’s
and master’s curricula involving intertwined chemistry, informatics,
and librarianship–editorship skills is described. The bachelor’s
curriculum was created in close cooperation of academic staff, library
staff, and the publishing house staff (Institute of Chemical Technology
Prague: a sole publisher of chemical literature in Czech Republic),
with the aim to educate a new generation of information retrieval
and e-publishing professionals in the science–technology–medicine
(STM) field. This cooperation together with a set of specifically
tailored courses gave students the insights into real-world issues
of STM publishing. The master’s curriculum, heavily relying
on the bachelor’s stage, inclines towards cheminformatics and
deepens software engineering skills. Successes, pitfalls, and failures
are described, together with proposed changes and future directions.
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