RSC Publishing Blog

Thank you to all those that joined us at Online Information this year, we were delighted to see customers – new and current and our agents and distributors.

We’re really pleased that our recycled cardboard stand stood the test of time and survived the exhibition, proving to be a great asset and receiving lots of positive comments and photographs.

We had several downloads of our new free apps – RSC Mobile and ChemSpider Mobile.

We gave many demonstrations for the RSC’s fabulous free chemical database – ChemSpider and lots of requests for userguides to be sent on after the show. If you would like to receive any userguides, please email sales@rsc.org quoting reference P11113.

ChemSpider currently contains over 26 million compounds from over 400 resources through structure and text-based searching, allowing access to a wealth of information.

On the picture on the left, we can see Richard Blount, Sales Executive for UK, Ireland and Northern Europe (far left) giving a ChemSpider demonstration and in the picture on the right, Dave Sharpe, ChemSpider User Specialist, giving Keith Furniss, Strategic Marketing Manager, ProQuest (far right) a demonstration.

During the show, delegates and visitors benefited from:

• FREE tea and coffee on the RSC Publishing stand
• DAILY competition to win a hamper EVERY day of the show
• ChemSpider demos
• NEW titles available on FREE access
• NEW titles available for subscription
• NEW collections

The free tea and coffee was clearly a very welcome addition to the stand as the long queues demonstrated, sometimes stretching down the aisles!

During the three days, we had a daily competition to win a hamper of RSC goodies and the winners, drawn each day of the show are:

• Christin Franke, Heinrich Heine University, Germany
• Torgeir Bie, Norwegian Broadcast Corporation, Norway
• José Luis Pires, Hovione, Portugal

Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to those who entered!

For any sales queries, please
EMAIL sales@rsc.org quoting reference P11113

For customer account queries, please
EMAIL salessupport@rsc.org quoting reference P11113

For technical queries, please
EMAIL technicalsupport@rsc.org quoting reference P11113

RSC Publishing would like to announce the discontinuation of the print database Mass Spectrometry Bulletin (MSB).

Mass Spectrometry Bulletin will be discontinued at the end of 2011 and will not be available for renewal in 2012. As a print subscription product, our customers retain archival rights to the print versions of Mass Spectrometry Bulletin they have received.

If you are looking for an alternative subscription, please review the below:

• Analytical Abstracts – print and online database  (available to search on the RSC Publishing Platform)
• Chromatography Abstracts – print only database    

You may also find the below Books and Specialist Periodical Report (SPR) of interest, for eBooks please contact your Regional Account Manager: 

• Mass Spectrometry 
• Mass Spectrometry and Nutrition Research 
• Mass Spectroscopy SPR 
• Miniaturization and Mass Spectrometry

For more information on Mass Spectrometry Bulletin, please
GO TO http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/CurrentAwareness/msb/

To discuss suitable alternatives, please
EMAIL sales@rsc.org

RSC Publishing is pleased to announce Worldwide Information Services (WWIS) as their exclusive representatives in South Africa and Botswana for high impact scientific research content.

RSC Publishing is the award-winning publishing division of the Royal Society of Chemistry and provides a broad range of resources for the scientific community including books/eBooks, databases, journals and magazines. In recent years, RSC Publishing has seen a significant increase in international content submissions and subscriptions.

Stephen Hawthorne, RSC Sales Director says, “Working with WWIS gives us the opportunity to work more closely with our customers in South Africa and Botswana and offer them a more valued customer service. We’ve seen over 50% growth in published articles in 2011 compared to 2010, a large proportion of it coming from the international market place and want to build on the growth we are seeing in South Africa.”

“We are delighted to represent RSC in the Southern Africa market,” says Andre van Tonder, Managing Director at WWIS. “This represents an exciting opportunity for us to both develop and strengthen their position in the market. As a publisher of high impact chemistry journals and comprehensive eBook collections we are sure that this relationship will be beneficial to both parties.”

For more information from RSC Publishing, please email Louise Peck on peckl@rsc.org

To contact WWIS, please email Fiona Bester on fiona.bester@wwis.co.za