SyntheticPages
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SyntheticPages is a "freely available interactive database of synthetic chemistry."
SyntheticPages is not a journal, and not a wiki - it is intended to be something in between. Users can submit procedures, but they are checked by an editor without undergoing any formal peer-review. The intention is to collect practical experience of conducting procedures in the lab, which other users can comment on - hence the site's slogan "peer review in the public domain".
SyntheticPages is widely-used by the community which it serves, despite the limited number of pages published.
History
The site was originally started as an academic collaboration, and hosted at The University of Warwick. The site's founders are prominent academic chemists who were motivated to investigate new mechanisms to supplement the traditional publishing of journal articles. Recently, the well-respected Nature Publishing Group has established Nature Protocols, which has a similar key idea (namely the publishing of techniques of practical use), but which uses a more traditional peer-review process.
It is now an LLP supported by commercial sponsorship.