We publish great journals and books. But we would say that, wouldn’t we?
Watch this video and find out what a host of top scientists, including Ben Feringa, Sue Lunte and Seth Marder, really think of us.
Interested in finding out more? Visit the RSC Publishing platform to browse our journals, books and databases and submit your own high quality research.
It was great to see so many Librarians and Information Specialists in Bournemouth.
Unfortunately only one of you can take home the Kindle Fire, but I hope all booth visitors enjoyed finding out more about Gold for Gold and what we are doing about Open Access, as well as seeing the UK launch of The Merck Index* Online.
Back to the business of the Kindle Fire, I am delighted to announce that the winner of our Buzzwire Competition (involving 45 steady-handed librarians), in a staggering time of 17 Seconds, was Claire Gravely, Information Resources Advisor, University of Surrey.
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Top 5 Times:
| 1 Claire Gravely, University of Surrey, UK | 17 Secs |
| 2 Monica Crump, NUL Galway, Ireland | 28 Secs |
| 3= Jessica Eustace-Cook, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland | 29 Secs |
| 3= Marie Barwick, University of Warwick, UK | 29 Secs |
| 5 Dag-Even Torsoe, BI Handelshoyskolen, Norway | 32 Secs |
Look out for an equally challenging competition in Harrogate next year – perhaps involving a different skill!
If you have any queries about our products, and/or did not have time to visit us, please e-mail Max Espley.
*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.
Thanks to everyone that stopped by our booth last week at the 2013 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit in San Francisco.
Editors Liz Dunn and Sam Keltie were on hand to answer questions and tell people about our top journals and books, including Biomaterials Science, Energy & Environmental Science and Journals of Materials Chemistry A, B and C.
There was lots of excitement around the launch of new journal Materials Horizons. It’s now open for submissions, welcoming the very best research at the cutting-edge interface of materials science with chemistry, physics, biology and engineering.
But what will this journal bring to the materials community? Find out from Editorial Board Chair Seth Marder in this short video.
We’ll be in Boston for the 2013 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit in December. We hope to see you then!
Delegates met with staff, browsed our books and journals and enjoyed a free coffee
Scientists from around the globe descended on Philadelphia last week for Pittcon 2013 - and we were there too!
And, as always, our books generated lots of interest, including UHPLC in Life Sciences, Practical Statistics for the Analytical Scientist and our popular science title, Science of Chocolate.
Thank you to everyone that entered our competition to win a Kindle Fire. Congratulations to our lucky winner: Carina Berglund from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden!
Even if you didn’t make it to Philadelphia, don’t miss out on our special offers this Spring:
FREE e-membership and a subscription to Chemistry World
Join RSC e-membership FREE using promo code PITT13 before 31 May 2013 and receive a 12-month digital subscription to Chemistry World.
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Register today and gain access to ALL free content from RSC Publishing, including the first 2 volumes of our new journals and a sample chapter from every book in the RSC eBook Collection.
Try ChemSpider today
ChemSpider is our free chemical structure database that provides text and structure search access to over 28 million records. Try it out and see what you can discover.
We’re rewarding RSC Gold customers with voucher codes to publish a select number of papers Open Access in RSC journals. Find out more
You can also discover more about our books and journals through our e-alerts and newsletters.
Heading to San Francisco for the 2013 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit?
Drop by RSC Publishing booth #602 to find materials that matter.
If you’ve seen us before at the Fall MRS meeting, you’ll know we publish a diverse range of books and journals covering the breadth of materials science – from the synthesis of materials through to an assortment of applications.
At this meeting, we’re celebrating the launch of our new title, Materials Horizons. The journal will publish first reports of exceptional significance at the cutting-edge interface of materials science with chemistry, physics, biology and engineering – and the great news is that all the content will be free to access until the end of 2015. It opens for submissions on 2 April 2013 – find out more at the booth.
Of course, we’ll have our other top titles on display, including Biomaterials Science, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C and the flagship general chemistry journal, Chemical Science.
You can enjoy a conference discount of 30% (or 35% if you’re an RSC member) on all RSC books on display at our booth, including Janus Particle Synthesis, Self-assembly and Applications from our Smart Materials book series and our popular science title, Science of Chocolate.
So to find out more about cutting-edge research, top quality reference works or the best place to publish – make sure you visit booth #602.
Meet the editors:
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| Liz Dunn Editor, Soft Matter, Materials Horizons Managing Editor, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C, Polymer Chemistry and Biomaterials Science Contact to arrange a meeting |
Sam Keltie Deputy Editor, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C |
There’s a lot to get round, but here’s why you need to be at stand #55/56 from Monday 8th to Wednesday 10th April.
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the 2013 UKSG Conference in Bournemouth.
*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.
Following the pilot’s popularity (at least 5 high-profile institutions have already taken advantage of Gold for Gold) we don’t want others to miss out. So, from now on, all RSC Gold subscribing institutions will be rewarded with voucher codes to publish OA articles at no cost.
This is an excellent opportunity for authors to increase the visibility of your quality research.
For more information, go to our Gold for Gold website. And, to find out exactly how the process will work, take a look at our FAQs.
Improving metadata assists discoverability.
As part of our commitment to support librarians, the Royal Society of Chemistry is delighted to endorse Phase I recommendations of the KBART (Knowledge Bases And Related Tools) Working Group, a joint NISO/UKSG initiative that is exploring data problems within the OpenURL supply chain.
KBART’s Phase I Recommended Practice, published in January 2010, contains practical recommendations for the timely exchange of accurate metadata between content providers and knowledge base developers.
More information is available via the NISO and UKSG Press Release. Our endorsement is thanks to the hard work of Juliet Palmer, Customer Service Executive – Technical Support, in producing and updating the KBART file which is available on the RSC’s Librarians’ Portal.
For more information contact technicalsupport@rsc.org.
There’s a lot of information about a lot of products out there, but not always enough time to view it all.
We feel that the 2013 RSC Publishing Catalogue is a vital document as it shows the depth and detail of what we do for the chemical sciences.
You can view the catalogue online, but, you may just want the highlights for 2013, so here they are:
If you would like a hard copy of the catalogue, please contact marketing@rsc.org.
If you have a sales enquiry, please contact your RSC Account Manager or your local Subscription Agent. Alternatively you can e-mail sales@rsc.org.
It’s nice to be first.
Recently we announced Gold for Gold, an innovative initiative rewarding UK RSC Gold customers with credits to publish a select number of papers in RSC journals via Open Science, the RSC’s Gold Open Access option. This ensures academics at RSC Gold subscribing institutions can further increase the visibility of their quality research.
We are now delighted to announce another first. This time for the University of Hull, who will be the opening beneficiary from this project.
CXCR4 chemokine receptor antagonists: nickel(II) complexes of configurationally restricted macrocycles (Steve Archibald et al, Dalton Transactions 2012 Vol:41, Issue 31) is the first article to be published as part of Gold for Gold and is available to all online.
More information on Gold for Gold is available on our website. If you have any further questions on the procedure, or are an interested customer from outside the UK , please contact goldforgold@rsc.org.
