After the first year of development, the server Chemie.DE is offering quite a few useful services for chemists. It stands to reason that the contents of the databases are presently far from complete, but this situation is going to improve within the next year. Currently an IO library is under development which will make it easier to set up new databases and the corresponding input/output forms. For instance, a database of chemical companies and one for job offers and applications are under construction.
We thank the students Rolf Claessen, Stefan Knecht, Markus Miertschink, Steffen Moeller, Manuela Scheuner, Christian Steiner and Kathrin Strahl for their contributions. The project Chemie.DE is supported by the Verein Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN) and by a financial grant from the German Bundesministerium für Bildung, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF) which is gratefully acknowledged.