RSC Advances Blog

RSC Advances was pleased  to sponsor the 20^th International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State (ICCOSS XX), held on the 25-30 June 2011 in Bangalore, India.

The conference gave a broad overview of the recent progress in all aspects of organic solid state chemistry and generated productive discussions. Professor T N Guru Row, Associate Editor for RSC Advances and one of the organisers of the conference, described the meeting as a great success and a great opportunity for well-respected national and international leaders in the field of organic solid states to get together to discuss the advances in this area.

Professor Christer Aakeroy, Kansas State University, USA, and Associate Editor for our sister journal CrystEngComm, was the chair of the poster prize committee. The RSC Advances poster prizes were awarded to two young participants (see pictures below) at the conference namely:

• Amit Delori who is working under the supervision of Professor Bill Jones (University of Cambridge, UK), on his research entitled: “Is Molecular Adduct Formation Predictable? A Case Study of Molecular Adducts of the Anti-Malarial Drug Pyrimethamine”.
• S. Samai, who is working under the supervision of Professor K. Biradha (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India), on his research entitled “Supramolecular Self-Assembly: The Formation of Organogel and Porous Solids”

RSC Advances congratulates the two poster prize winners.

Professor Christer Aakeroy and Amit Delori

Professor Christer Aakeroy and S. Samai

RSC Advances is pleased to welcome Professor Suning Wang from Queen’s University, Canada, as the new Associate Editor handling manuscripts on inorganic and materials chemistry.

Professor Suning Wang obtained a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry at Yale University. She did postdoctoral research at Texas A&M University. She was a faculty member in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada for 6 years. In 1996, she moved to Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where she is a professor and a Queen’s University research chair.

Her current research interests concern photophysical/photochemical properties and applications of organic and organometallic luminescent molecules especially those that have an organoboron chromophore and a metal ion. She is a fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada since 2002. Her research achievements have been recognized by the Royal Society of Canada Rutherford memorial medal in Chemistry (2002) and the Alcan award of the Canadian Society for Chemistry (2007).

Professor Wang’s editorial office in Canada is now open for submission and we would welcome all papers in her areas of expertise as described above. Take this opportunity to submit your work to RSC Advances today!

P.S. RSC Advances is an international journal to further the chemical sciences. All articles published in 2011 and 2012 will be made free to access at NO cost to the authors or readers.

RSC Advances is an online only journal and authors will benefit from:

• Free use of colour
• No page charges
• No page limits
• Free electronic reprints (pdf) of own paper
• Electronic supplementary information
• Free e-mail alerting and RSS news feeds service
• Additional open access publishing options via RSC Open Science    

The following news item about our new journal RSC Advances has just been released:

Researchers from across the chemical sciences will have a new option for the publication of their research in 2011, thanks to the launch of RSC Advances.

Making the announcement today, acting Managing Director of Publishing, James Milne, said ‘The publishing environment continues to change rapidly, and the RSC is recognised as the leader in providing innovative and high quality products and services for the chemical science community.

‘Researchers regularly tell us they want to be able to submit their best research to the RSC, knowing we will provide an excellent editorial service, and the widest possible readership. RSC Advances extends the reach of our portfolio, and will enable more scientists to submit and publish their research results with us.’

RSC Advances will be a peer-reviewed journal, published online only, covering all the chemical sciences, including interdisciplinary fields. Published articles will report high quality, well-conducted research that adds to the development of the field. Research that is outside the criteria of the existing RSC journal portfolio will be actively encouraged. The journal is now open for submissions, and the first issue will be published mid-2011.

Professor Mike Ward, University of Sheffield, UK, the Chair of the Editorial Board, commented: ‘I am looking forward to working with the RSC on this exciting new project. Research in the chemical sciences is expanding into new fields that were unknown a few years ago, and high quality scientific contributions come from more and more parts of the world; in response, the RSC is expanding its portfolio of journals to keep pace with these new developments. RSC Advances will have a key role to play in attracting publications in new fields of research and from all parts of the world, allowing the RSC to maintain its position as one of the leading publishers.’

Authors submitting to RSC Advances will benefit from rapid peer review and publication, have an Open Access option, and will see their work available on the RSC Publishing Platform. Published research will have very high visibility: from launch until December 2012, all content will be freely available online for all readers via the website. Authors with research that they would like to be considered for the first issues of RSC Advances can submit online .