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And the winners are…

22 Nov 2016

As part of our participation in Peer Review Week, we ran a prize draw for our reviewers. Anyone who provided a review for one of our journals between 19 September 2016 and 16 October 2016 was automatically entered for a chance to win a fantastic prize!

The winners have now been selected at random, with the first three winning an Apple iPad and then next ten winning a six-month subscription to Chemistry World.

The lucky reviewers that will receive an iPad are….

Name	Institution	Country
Le Yu	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
Bin Hu	Wuhan University	China
Claudia Kummerloewe	Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences	Germany

The reviewers that have won a six-month subscription to Chemistry World are….

Name	Institution	Country
Kaushik Chatterjee	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	India
A. Stephen K. Hashmi	Heidelberg University	Germany
Xiaolin Wang	City University of Hong Kong	China
W. Henderson	The University of Waikato	New Zealand
Julia Laskin	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	United States
Robert Phipps	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
Feng Guo	Pennsylvania State University	United States
Shengfang Li	Hubei Polytechnic University	China
William Wuest	Temple University	United States
E. Ruijter	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands

Please join us in congratulating all of the winners!

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Review and win!

19 Sep 2016

When you give your time as a reviewer for a Royal Society of Chemistry journal, you are part of the world’s leading chemistry community, supporting us in advancing excellence in the chemical sciences. As a little added bonus to celebrate Peer Review Week, for the next four weeks you will also be in with a chance of winning a fantastic prize!

The first three lucky winners will receive an Apple iPad and 10 runners-up will collect a free 6 month digital subscription to Chemistry World the Royal Society of Chemistry’s flagship magazine featuring the latest chemistry news, research updates, features, opinions, podcasts and more. This offer also includes a 25% discount on a 12 month digital subscription after the end of the free access period.

Entry couldn’t be simpler – a reviewer who submits a review for any of our journals between 19 September 2016 and 16 October 2016 will be automatically eligible for a chance to win. Winners will be selected at random and announced in the first week of November 2016.*

If you would like to become a reviewer for any of our journals, just contact the journal by email with details of your research interests and an up-to-date CV or résumé. You can find more details in our author and reviewer resource centre.

P.S. Did you know that all reviewers for our journals are entitled to a 25% discount on books published by the Royal Society of Chemistry? Contact booksales@rsc.org for more information.

*Reasonable efforts will be made to contact the winner(s). If the winner(s) cannot be contacted, we reserve the right to offer the prize to the next eligible entrant drawn at random. We reserve the right to reject entries from entrants not entering into the spirit of the competition.

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Celebrating our reviewers

19 Sep 2016

This week, we are excited to be joining in the celebrations for Peer Review Week – a global event recognising the essential role that peer review plays in maintaining scientific quality.

At the Royal Society of Chemistry, we are passionate about ensuring that our journals deliver rigorous and fair peer review. We wouldn’t be able to achieve that commitment without the amazing contribution of our reviewers.

So far this year, nearly 40,000 individual reviewers have provided a review for one or more of our journals. Between them they have submitted over 120,000 reviews! Every one of them is contributing to the efforts of our community to advance excellence in the chemical sciences.

Our community is truly a global one, with reviewers coming from over 100 different countries.

This Peer Review Week, we want to celebrate just some of the individuals who’ve made significant contributions to our journals by reviewing for us this year. We’ll be publishing a list of the top 10 reviewers for each of our journals throughout this week, starting today with our materials and nanoscience journals.

While it’s not possible to list all of them here, we would like to thank each and every reviewer for their support. We’d also like to say an extra-special thank you to the members of our journals’ editorial and advisory boards who often serve as senior reviewers and adjudicators.

Each day, a different set of journals will publish their Top 10 reviewers for 2016, as selected by the editor for their significant contribution to the journal

Monday 19th September	Tuesday 20th September	Wednesday 21st September	Thursday 22nd September	Friday 23rd September

Materials and Nanoscience	Energy, Environmental and Catalysis	Organic, Biological and Medicinal	Inorganic, Physical and Analytical	General chemistry and Applied chemistry

Biomaterials Science	Energy & Environmental Science	Integrative Biology	Dalton Transactions	Chemical Communications
Journal of Materials Chemistry A	Environmental Science: Nano	Metallomics	Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers	Chemical Science
Journal of Materials Chemistry B	Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts	Molecular BioSystems	CrystEngComm	Chemical Society Reviews
Journal of Materials Chemistry C	Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology	MedChemComm	Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics	New Journal of Chemistry
Materials Chemistry Frontiers	Green Chemistry	Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry	Analyst	Molecular Systems Design & Engineering
Materials Horizons	Catalysis Science & Technology	Toxicology Research	Analytical Methods	Reaction Chemistry & Engineering
Polymer Chemistry		Food & Function	Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
Soft Matter		Organic Chemistry Frontiers	Lab on a Chip
Nanoscale		Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences

Make sure you come back everyday this week to see the top reviewers for our journals.

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Apps with real impact

27 Feb 2013

Some apps have real impact, we’ve just sponsored two such apps.

Green Solvents and Lab Solvents are innovative apps for the iOS and Android platforms that list solvents and their scores versus various environmentally relevant properties. They are based on published data that had not been widely disseminated in conveniently available media. The apps are freely available and were developed by Dr. Alex M. Clark at Molecular Materials Informatics (MMI, Montreal, Canada) after an initial idea from Dr. Sean Ekins at Collaborations in Chemistry (CIC, Fuquay Varina, USA).

“These apps are first class examples of how green chemistry data can be delivered to a mobile device and complement other apps such as ChemSpider Mobile, which we have developed with Alex.” said Antony J. Williams, VP Strategic Development for the RSC. “We are honoured to support such efforts that raise awareness of green chemistry and educate the public and serve a need for scientists in the lab”.

“It is really wonderful validation of these apps that an organisation such as the RSC would sponsor Green Solvents and Lab Solvents and this will help to further raise their visibility to scientists globally” said Alex Clark, owner of Molecular Materials Informatics.

Find out more and download the apps today: Green Solvents and Lab Solvents

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RSC launches £1 million Gold for Gold as Open Access transition begins

20 Jul 2012

The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced a groundbreaking £1 million initiative to support British researchers as they begin the transition to Gold Open Access (OA).

‘Gold for Gold’ is an innovative experiment to support the funder led evolution to Gold OA, by recognising institutes that subscribe to RSC Gold, a premium collection of 37 international journals, databases and magazines offering online access to all published material.

UK institutes who are RSC Gold customers will shortly receive credit equal to the subscription paid, enabling their researchers, who are being asked to publish Open Access but often do not yet have funding to pay for it directly, to make their paper available via Open Science, the RSC’s Gold OA option.

Are you going to Experimental Biology? See you there!

16 Apr 2012

If you’re in San Diego for the 2012 Experimental Biology conference, make sure you drop by Booth #416.

We will be showcasing our journals and books and we will be giving away FREE copies of our ‘hot off the press’ new booklet containing a collection of our best biological chemistry articles!

But why is the 2012 Experimental Biology conference important to a publisher historically renowned for high quality chemistry research?

In response to the needs of the increasingly interdisciplinary community our activities have evolved over recent years. Our new and more established journals and books cover many of the most important areas of biological chemistry research.

RSC Biological Chemistry titles are creating a new paradigm in biology by addressing real problems and real scientific issues of concern in todays world. The journals we will be highlighting are…

Lab on a Chip, Integrative Biology, Metallomics, Molecular BioSystems, Food & Function and Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences.

Book series include the RSC Drug Discovery Series, RSC Biomolecular Sciences Series and the RSC Issues in Toxicology Series.

So whether you’re looking for the latest cutting-edge research, needing to access top quality reference works, or finding the best place to publish your biological chemistry research, choose RSC Publishing.

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New journal: Biomaterials Science

13 Jan 2012

Are you looking for a biomaterials journal which bridges materials science, biology, chemistry and physics? One which publishes high impact science?

A journal which through free access will ensure your work has maximum visibility?

Academic and industrial researchers in the field of biomaterials have a new option for the publication of their research in 2012, with the launch of our latest journal Biomaterials Science. The journal is a collaborative venture between RSC Publishing and the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan. Biomaterials Science will be a multidisciplinary journal covering the fundamental science of biomaterials and their biomedical applications.

The journal will open for submissions from March 2012, advance articles will be available from August 2012 and the first issue will be issue 1, 2013.

Published research will have very high visibility – from launch until December 2014, all content will be freely available online for all readers via the website.

Norio Nakatsuji, Professor and Director at WPI Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University has been appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of the new journal. He said:

“It is my great honour and pleasure to work with the Royal Society of Chemistry on the launch of this new cross-disciplinary journal integrating materials science with the cellular and biomedical sciences. Our institute – Kyoto University’s WPI Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) aims to fuse these fields, focusing on stem cells and mesoscopic investigations of living systems and functional materials. The launch of this new journal is therefore an important event for our institute, as with it we seek to present a global platform for fundamental research as well as varied applications of this rapidly expanding field created at the crossing point of biology, chemistry, and physics.”

Professor Phillip Messersmith from Northwestern University, USA, also Co-Editor-in-Chief, added: “It is an exhilarating time for the biomaterials research community, as it is enjoying rapid growth, making exciting fundamental discoveries, and driving the development of novel life-saving and life-enhancing therapeutic materials and devices. I look forward to helping shape Biomaterials Science into one of leading journals in the field.”

Authors with research that they would like to be considered for the first issues of Biomaterials Science can submit online from March 2012 www.rsc.org/biomaterialsscience

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Free trial finishing?

19 Oct 2011

Over the last 18 months your institution may have had free access to some of the journals below, this free access is now ending. It will be turned off on the 1st of January 2012.

You can continue to access high quality, high impact science through discounted packages or affordable individual subscriptions.

Please contact sales@rsc.org and ask for a quote, we have prices to suit all budgets….



Chemical Science £2,280/$3,648	Energy & Environmental Science £1,110/$2,115	Polymer Chemistry £1,990/$3,601



Food & Function £1,197/$2,227	Metallomics £1,068/$2,034	Analytical Methods £2,109/$3,937



Integrative Biology £1,068/$2,034	Nanoscale £1,092/ $1,975	MedChemComm £1,235/$1,976

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Find out more about ChemSpider SyntheticPages…

13 Oct 2011

ChemSpider SyntheticPages is a freely available interactive database of synthetic chemistry. It contains practical and reliable organic, organometallic and inorganic chemical synthesis, reactions and procedures deposited by synthetic chemists. Synthetic methods on the site are updated continuously by chemists working in academic and industrial research laboratories. ChemSpider SyntheticPages encourages submissions from graduate students, postdocs, industrialists and academics.

You can submit any procedure or method that you have carried out in the lab. It could be a literature procedure or a new reaction, a general method or a one-off -curiosity. What is important is that it relates to your personal experience of the reaction.

Professor Peter Scott, University of Warwick is the founder and an editor of ChemSpider SyntheticPages, in this short video he tells us about ChemSpider SyntheticPages and his vision behind it…

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Gold 24 carat scientific research

01 Jul 2011



	How does GOLD enrich cutting edge science through technical application? To celebrate gold’s role in science and technology in the International Year of Chemistry, the World Gold Council and the RSC have teamed up to develop a unique ‘microsite’ offering FREE ACCESS to some of the RSC’s best gold-related publications until the end of 2011. There is a spread of historical and cutting-edge papers, spanning catalysis, chemistry, nanotechnology and novel materials. 100 FREE GOLD RESEARCH ARTICLES When you ask someone what comes into their mind when you say the word ‘gold’, the responses you receive rarely offers any surprise. Jewellery is probably at the forefront of most people’s mind, along with various examples of gold’s role in the world of finance. Words such as ‘science’, ‘technology’ and (most definitely) ‘chemistry’ rarely get a mention. This, perhaps, is not a surprise. To most people’s mind gold is eternal – the ultimate preserver of wealth, a constant typified by the jewellery many of us wear often throughout our entire lives. Physical sciences such as chemistry on the other hand are all about change – manipulating the elements to generate useful materials. How could gold play a role in chemistry? Of course, scientists now know that gold exhibits rich chemistry under certain conditions. 100 years ago Rutherford unravelled the structure of the atom with his famous ‘gold foil’ experiments. Even longer ago, Faraday correctly described the true nature of colloidal gold. Since then, the link between gold and chemistry has grown stronger by the decade. From catalysis to novel chemicals to nanotechnology, researchers have continually identified new uses for the metal, building on the discoveries of the past. We invite you to take a look through the collection, and we hope you find something relevant to your area of research. Dr Trevor Keel, World Gold Council Professor Graham Hutchings, Cardiff University Discover the GOLD today… 100 FREE RESEARCH ARTICLES Visit www.rsc.org/gold100 – User name wgc – Password wgc Other RSC GOLD links of interest: • Gold: Faraday Discussion 152 • Chemistry World Gold Podcast with Johnny Ball” • Visual Elements: Gold • Gold catalysis in the news – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

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