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Royal Society of Chemistry to publish The Merck Index

13 Dec 2012

The famous “bible” of chemistry, The Merck Index, is to join the highly acclaimed publishing portfolio of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

The Merck Index has been considered the standard chemistry reference work for generations of professionals and has sold over one million copies worldwide. From April 2013, the Royal Society of Chemistry will take over its publication and launch the 15^th edition.

Dr James Milne, RSC Executive Director, publishing, said: “The Merck Index is a quality product with a peerless pedigree but, being familiar to the scientific community worldwide, it is also emblematic of our organisation’s rapidly-expanding international presence and influence. We know The Merck Index will be a valuable addition to the products and services the RSC offers its customers. Now we are looking forward eagerly to developing The Merck Index for the digital future.”

The RSC already plans significant development of The Merck Index online – beginning with offering all buyers of the 15^th edition one year’s free access to a newly-developed online version. The RSC will continue to develop The Merck Index to provide a valuable, trusted and relevant resource for scientists and researchers.

To find out more about the 15^th edition of The Merck Index visit the website and register your interest to receive further updates.

*The name THE MERCK INDEX is owned by Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, N.J., U.S.A., and is licensed to The Royal Society of Chemistry for use in the U.S.A. and Canada.

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Philadelphia free-dom

10 Aug 2012

The Royal Society of Chemistry will be in Philadelphia for the ACS meeting this month – and we’d love to meet you. Visit us at Booth #701 and find out more about our free content and how the RSC is going from strength to strength in its mission to advance the chemical sciences. Some key free events taking place at booth #701 include:

ChemSpider demo – Monday 20th at 11 am

Discover how you can make the most of our free chemical structure database, providing fast search access to over 26 million structures.

Book signing: The Case of the Poisonous Socks - Monday 20th at 2pm

Celebrated author William H Brock will be at the stand with copies of The Case of the Poisonous Socks, which offers 42 light-hearted tales of chemists and their discoveries. The book will be selling at just $15 (less than half its list price) so don’t miss out!

Join us for coffee – Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st from 11 am

Coffee and other drinks are free while stocks last

There are many more RSC and ChemSpider events taking place around the venue, and a full list is included at the bottom of this blog post.

So come along to Booth #701 and:

Find out more about our new Impact Factors and rising stars within RSC journals
Hear the very latest journal news and search the RSC Publishing platform
Browse over 60 new RSC books and take advantage of a special 30% show discount
Try ChemSpider, the multiple award winning, chemical structure-based search engine providing free access to more than 25 million chemical structures
Meet RSC representatives and investigate how you can publish with one of the world’s leading chemical science publishers
Harriet Gould and Emma Favager from our Commercial Sales team will also be on site to speak to you about Chemistry World, webinars, recruitment, digital options, and more.

We look forward to meeting you in Philadelphia!

Sunday 19th	10.50AM – 11.10AM	Putting chemistry into the hands of students – chemistry made mobile using resources from the Royal Society of Chemistry	Room 109B
	4.15PM – 4.40PM	Mining public domain data as a basis for drug repurposing	Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Room 302/303
Monday 20th	11.00AM – 12.00PM	ChemSpider demo	Booth #701
	11.00AM – 3.00PM*	Join us for coffee	Booth #701
	2.00PM – 3.00PM	Book signing: The Case of the Poisonous Socks	Booth #701
	2.05PM – 2.30PM	Feeding and consuming data to support Open Notebook Science via the ChemSpider platform	Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Conference Room 307
	2.30PM – 2.55PM	Approaches for extraction and “digital chromatography” of chemical data – a perspective from the RSC	Hilton Garden Inn Philadelphia, Salon D
		RSC Member Reception (by invitation only)
Tuesday 21st		Sponsorship of Bioconjugate Polymer session (Division of Polymer Chemistry) by RSC journals Chemical Science and ChemComm
	10AM – 12PM	ChemSpider and You: A workshop exploring how ChemSpider can help you find chemical information (Register via conference website)	Workshop Room 2
	11.00AM – 3.00PM*	Join us for coffee	Booth #701
	4.55PM – 5.10PM	ChemSpider compound database as one of the pillars of a semantic web for chemistry	Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Grand Ballroom Salon H
		Young Investigators session dinner co-sponsored by RSC journals Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry and ChemSocRev
Wednesday 22nd		Sponsorship of Bioconjugate Polymer session (Division of Polymer Chemistry) by RSC journals Chemical Science and ChemComm
Thursday 23rd	9.15AM – 9.35AM	Delivering an online service for validating and standardizing chemical structure files using the ChemSpider platform	Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Franklin Hall 6
	9.35AM – 9.55AM	How can the International Chemical Identifier (InChI) be extended to non-trivial chemicals?	Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Franklin Hall 6
	9.55AM – 10.15AM	Serving up and consuming community content for chemists using wikis	Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Franklin Hall 6

While stocks last*

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Open Access update

27 Jul 2012

Open Access has been in the news a lot in recent weeks.

Previously, when visiting our website, you may have found it time-consuming to find everything relating to Open Access at the RSC.

But not any more – to make it easier for you, we now have everything in one place.

What can you expect to find?

the latest RSC Press Releases relating to Open Access
information on current RSC policy
descriptions of the different types of Open Access
details of RSC Open Science, our ‘author pays’ option

and more …

So make sure you have the latest information: visit the website today .

And if you have any questions, please email us.

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2011 Impact Factors

29 Jun 2012

Quality remains at the heart of RSC Publishing, and the fact that we published 4 times as many articles in 2011 as we did in 2006 hasn’t changed that.

Our exceptional standards are reinforced by the recently published 2011 Journal Citation Reports ®.

Individual journal highlights include ChemComm (6.17), Green Chemistry (6.32), Energy & Environmental Science (9.61), Natural Product Reports (9.79) and ChemSocRev (28.76).

And impressive first (partial) Impact Factors were recorded for Chemical Science (7.525) and Polymer Chemistry (5.321).

But how do we measure up when compared with other publishers?

The average impact factor (IF) for a chemistry journal* stands at 2.67: our average IF is 5.46
Of the top 20 journals in the multidisciplinary chemistry category, six are from RSC Publishing. This is more than any other Society publisher
11 of our 27 journals have an IF of 5 and above
Looking at 5-year IFs, we have more titles in the top 20 than any other publisher

So the figures speak for themselves: for guaranteed impact, choose RSC Publishing.

* The 7 Chemistry journal subject-categories as listed in Journal Citation Reports ®: Chemistry, Analytical; Chemistry; Applied; Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear; Chemistry, Medicinal; Chemistry, Multidisciplinary; Chemistry, Organic; Chemistry, Physical.

Full journal listing:

Journal	2011 Impact Factor	5-Year Impact Factor
Analyst	4.23	4.119
Analytical Methods	1.547	1.547
Chemical Communications (ChemComm)	6.169	6.082
Chemical Science	7.525	7.545
Chemical Society Reviews	28.76	28.098
CrystEngComm	3.842	4.023
Dalton Transactions	3.838	3.887
Energy & Environmental Science	9.61	10.813
Faraday Discussions	5.00	4.687
Food & Function ǂ	1.179	1.179
Green Chemistry	6.32	6.761
Integrative Biology	4.509	4.509
JAAS (Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry)	3.22	2.966
Journal of Environmental Monitoring	1.991	2.245
Journal of Materials Chemistry	5.968	5.992
Lab on a Chip	5.67	6.497
MedChemComm ǂ	2.80	2.80
Metallomics	3.902	3.902
Molecular BioSystems	3.534	3.705
Nanoscale	5.914	5.914
Natural Product Reports	9.790	9.671
New Journal of Chemistry	2.605	2.775
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry	3.696	3.652
Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences	2.584	2.688
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP)	3.573	3.931
Polymer Chemistry	5.321	5.326
Soft Matter	4.39	4.998

ǂ Partial IF only, based on five issues or less

The Impact Factor provides an indication of the average number of citations per paper. Produced annually, Impact Factors are calculated by dividing the number of citations in a year, by the number of citeable articles published in the preceding two years.

The 5-Year Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from a journal published in the past five years have been cited in the JCR year. For journals in subjects where citation activity continues to rise through several years, this metric allows more of their total citation activity to be included in a critical performance metric.

Data based on 2011 Journal Citation Reports ®, (Thomson Reuters, 2012).

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Crystal data: important announcement for authors

19 Jun 2012

Do you submit crystallographic data with your articles? If you submit to several different publishers, are you confused by which procedure you should follow?

Then you’ll be glad to hear that at RSC Publishing we are making it easier for you.

From September 1^st, all small molecule single crystal data files (CIFs) must be accompanied by the CCDC reference number(s)* when you submit your article. So, you will need to deposit your crystal data files with, and obtain the relevant reference number from, CCDC before you begin the submission process. Many of you will recognise this as the process used by the majority of publishers.

Your crystal data files will be published alongside your article, as normal. The CCDC reference numbers will still be quoted in the online and print versions of the article.

As this change also aligns us with approved CCDC practices, it means a much more streamlined process for everyone involved.

Full details are available in the Instructions for authors, but if you have any questions, please contact us.

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*The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) is dedicated to the advancement of chemistry and crystallography for the public benefit through providing high-quality information services and software. It is the internationally recognised repository for crystal structures, providing a reference number for each structure deposited.

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Going for Gold with the Royal Society of Chemistry

31 May 2012

Our new premium collection of international journals, databases and magazines offering access to all published material is proving to be very popular within the academic community in the UK. Currently 21 universities, including the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, York, Leeds, Warwick and Imperial College London, subscribe to RSC Gold, with several more interested in this comprehensive package.

In an era of carefully balanced budgets, the success of RSC Gold highlights the value placed by institutions on our content.

If a university has an RSC Gold subscription, staff are entitled to receive a 15% discount on the relevant RSC Open Science fee. Authors are offered the option of paying a fee in exchange for making their accepted communication, research paper or review article openly available to all via the web. Of course, RSC Open Science will only be available to authors once their papers have been accepted for publication, following the normal rigorous peer-review procedures.

For more information, read our Press Release.

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RSC Roadshow heads to Pennsylvania and New York for final stages of the US tour.

08 May 2012

Using RSC apps to access content

Following another fantastic week in Georgia and North Carolina, the RSC Roadshow travels north east for the last stages of the trip to Pennsylvania and New York where we will be visiting:

May 7th – University of Pittsburgh
May 8th – Pennsylvania State University
May 10th – University of Pennsylvania
May 11th – Columbia University

At each University, Books Commissioning Editor Merlin Fox will be on hand to show you RSC’s apps on mobile devices and talk about our newest books. Join him for lunch and debate the reading habits in the 21st Century. And find out more from Managing Editor Richard Kelly about the world of scholarly publishing, with tips on how to get published in high impact journals.

Photos of the tour so far are on our Facebook Page and you can follow us on our journey on Twitter #RSC2012.

Read more about where we’ve been this year – US Roadshow 2012.

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Next stop Georgia and North Carolina for RSC Roadshow

27 Apr 2012

After another great week in Illinois and Wisconsin, the RSC Roadshow heads south to Georgia and North Carolina where we will be visiting:

April 30th – The Georgia Institute of Technology
May 1st – Emory University
May 3rd – University of North Carolina

At each University, Books Commissioning Editor Merlin Fox will be on hand to show you RSC’s apps on mobile devices and talk about our newest books. Join him for lunch and debate the reading habits in the 21st Century. And find out more from Managing Editor Jamie Humphrey about the world of scholarly publishing, with tips on how to get published in high impact journals.

See photos from the tour so far on our Facebook Page and follow us on Twitter #RSC2012.

The last part of the tour will continue onto Pennsylvania and New York – read more about our US Roadshows 2012.

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Free registration for ChemCareers 2012

20 Apr 2012

Looking for a career in chemistry? Explore what options are available by taking part in this year’s RSC careers fair, ChemCareers 2012, which takes place from 29 – 30 May.

ChemCareers gives you an opportunity to discover the huge range of career options available, learn how to market yourself to employers, seek expert advice on career planning and investigate further study options.

Best of all, registration is free.

And as an online event, ChemCareers makes use of a wide range of multimedia tools to provide delegates with a dynamic and interactive experience. These include:

videos
online presentations and webinars
a wealth of downloadable information
live chat sessions

Register for ChemCareers 2012 today, it is free and you can also sign up to the ChemCareers MyRSC group, to keep up to date with the programme of careers events planned for 2012.

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RSC Publishing and Open Access

15 Mar 2012

Open access, deposition of articles and copyright issues can be a confusing and emotive issue for authors, publishers and funding agencies alike.

This can be partially explained by the sheer complexity of the subject, the legal phrasing of the various licenses and supporting documents, and the fact that many publishers have slightly different policies.

At RSC Publishing, we like to make it easy for authors to find the information they need.

Firstly, we give journal authors the choice of making their article Open Access through RSC Open Science. If you choose this publication route, you will pay an ‘article processing fee’ after peer-review and acceptance. The final ‘article of record’ is made available to all, immediately, via our website without any barriers to access.

Secondly, when it comes to access and deposition, we comply with the requirements of most of the major funding agencies, such as NIH and EPSRC. If we have published your article, you can deposit the accepted author form of it in a non-commercial repository. This includes pre-submission (eg ArXiV) and post-acceptance repositories, such as that of your institution or your funding body, plus your organisation’s intranet. You can also use your article in your thesis, both in print and online.

An embargo period of 12 months from acceptance applies to the deposition of non-Open Access articles in repositories that are available to the public.

Full details on all options for deposition, with associated Licence to Publish forms, can be found on our website.

Thirdly, as a journal author with RSC Publishing, you retain the copyright on your published work. We do not ask you to transfer the copyright to us, the publisher. All we ask is that you sign an exclusive Licence to Publish. You can find out more here.

Finally, all these policies are occasionally subject to changes and amendments. If you need any clarification, or have any questions, please contact us – we’re always happy to help.

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