Findability, Keywords, and the Content in the Journal of Chemical Education

The role of keywords in improving findability of articles published in the Journal of Chemical Education has been developing and progressing for decades. Presently, as computational power and convenience have increased, the ability to consider new paradigms for keyword usage has emerged. Enhanced computing capacity and improved electronic information retrieval create an environment in which authors can choose their own descriptive keywords, rather than rely on the long used but somewhat dated taxonomy of keyword terms supplied by the Journal. The new keyword guidelines and strategies presented to best use them for effective classification of articles represent an important development for authors and readers of the Journal.