Successor to Chemical Database Service to be hosted by Southampton–STFC partnership

The National Chemical Database Service (NCDS) – a UK-based collection of chemical information resources – will change hands next year. It will become part of a larger service that will bring together databases from across the physical sciences. The NCDS has been managed by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) since 2013, but in 2019 it will be handed over to the University of Southampton and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). The joint venture has been awarded a £3 million grant by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to set up the new Physical Sciences Data-science Service (PSDS).