The Royal Society of Chemistry is building is a comprehensive federated platform for chemical informatics in a Big Research Data world. The resulting platform is a blend of social, informatics and knowledge components which itself produces new dimensions in the chemical sciences to support activities such as Open Innovation and sharing of data. The platform itself would be isolated and insular unless a broad collaboration between societies, industry and universities is created in a federated and open way. In this presentation we will talk about one of these efforts, between RSC and Moscow State University, to facilitate the development, population and use of a global networking platform for the chemical sciences.