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Join RSC Publishing on stand 26 at UKSG 2012:

• DAILY competition to win an iPod shuffle EVERY day of the show
• DEMO ChemSpider – the FREE chemical database
• NEW titles available on FREE access
• NEW titles available for subscription
• NEW collections to suit your needs

RSC Publishing staff available during the three days of the show include:

Davide Fiore Journal Sales Executive Southern Europe	Louise Peck Library Marketing Specialist	Richard Blount Journal Sales Executive UK & Northern Europe

Did you know about…?

• New agreements with Serials Solution Summon™, EBSCO Discovery Service™, ProQuest Illustrata™ and OCLC Worldcat
• Updates to RSC Free Access Content
• Library Photograph Competition
• RSC Publishing Platform app now in Android
• New Partnership in South Africa and Botswana
• RSC Publishing Platform update

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To discuss your needs for quality international scientific research content

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We look forward to seeing you there.

Have you seen the front cover of the RSC Publishing Catalogue?

This could be your library!

In 2011, we asked the librarian community to enter their library pictures into the RSC Publishing Catalogue front cover competition. This competition proved extremely popular – drawing entrants from countries across the globe including France, Lithuania, Slovenia, Spain, Tajikistan, South Africa, Turkey, UK and USA. Previous versions include:

• RSC Publishing Catalogue 2011 – RSC Library, London, UK
• RSC Publishing Catalogue 2012 – the George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, taken by Norm Barker.

Steve Stich, from the Sheridan Libraries, of the Johns Hopkins University, USA won the 2011 Library Photograph Competition, voted for by 115 RSC staff and the RSC Library Advisory Board (entries can be seen on pages 2 – 5 of the 2012 Catalogue).

If you are interested in finding out about the next Library Photograph Competition, where your could be the winning Library featured on the front cover of the RSC Publishing Catalogue 2013, review the below instructions.

Enter the RSC Publishing Catalogue 2013 Photograph Competition

We’re now giving you the chance to enter the competition to feature your library on the front of our RSC Publishing Catalogue 2013, helping to raise the profile of your library and the facilities on offer.  This is an annual competition and the catalogue will be printed in August 2012.

There are so many fantastic libraries in the world, whether architecturally, academically, historically or in terms of resources and support, so we’re really looking forward to the creative entries building on the success of last year.  This competition will be judged by RSC, the RSC Library Advisory Board and the librarian community.

What are we looking for?

We are looking to receive a high resolution image representing the competition topic that we can use in all promotional activities relating to the RSC Publishing Catalogue.

All entries are published inside the Catalogue with a photo credit.

Competition Topic

The topic for the RSC Publishing Catalogue 2013 competition is based on a suggestion by Ian Gordon, Brock University, Canada – (an RSC Library Advisory Board member):

Creative use of digital chemistry resources in the library for research or teaching

Why not encourage your students or researchers to get involved and take pictures?

Competition Details  

• Image to be supplied as high resolution in JPEG or EPS
• Competition entry deadline – Friday 27^th April 2012
• Submit your image entries to:

Marketing
RSC Publishing
marketing@rsc.org

Please contact us with any queries and we will happily help. We look forward to receiving your competition entries!

Competition Terms and Conditions

1. One winner will be voted on by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the RSC Library Advisory Board and the library community through electronic communications from all library image entries received by 18.00 GMT on Friday 27th April 2012
2. By submitting an image, entrants hereby give permission to the Royal Society of Chemistry for the image to be published by the Royal Society of Chemistry on the front cover of the RSC Publishing Catalogue
3. The institution/organisation name and image of the winning photograph will be used in Royal Society of Chemistry’s marketing activities
4. By submitting an image, entrants hereby confirm that the image is their own original work
5. Images to be supplied in high resolution JPEG or EPS format to marketing@rsc.org
6. The image should relate to the topic – Creative use of digital chemistry resources in the library for research or teaching
7. The winner will be notified by email
8. Unsuccessful entrants may not be notified
9. Only one entry per individual
10. No cash prize alternatives are available
11. Employees of the Royal Society of Chemistry will not be eligible to enter this competition
12. The Royal Society of Chemistry will store any personal data you supply on its electronic records in order to contact you further about the competition and it will NOT be passed on to third parties.

P.S. Have you visited the RSC Library Tool Kit and downloaded the support tools?
GO TO www.rsc.org/librarytoolkit

Effective Thursday 5th January 2012, RSC Publishing will be introducing the new RSC Journals Archive containing 260,000 original PDF articles of research, published from 1841 – 2007 which will supersede  the original RSC Journals Archive  (1841 – 2004). 

Customers who have purchased the original RSC Journals Archive (1841 – 2004) have the option to upgrade to the new RSC Journals Archive (1841 – 2007) by purchasing the additional three years 2005 – 2007. To discuss your potential upgrade with your RSC Account Manager, please
EMAIL sales@rsc.org

With this new purchase of RSC Journals Archive (1841 – 2007), you will receive instant access to over 260,000 original articles published between 1841-2007 and top titles such as ChemComm, The Analyst, PCCP, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry and Dalton Transactions.

There is a range of purchase options and pricing to suit your library’s needs, including:

• outright purchase where the RSC hosts the archive
• outright purchase where you host the archive
• annual lease
• multi-site and consortia pricing.                      

For more information, please
GO TO www.rsc.org/archive
EMAIL sales@rsc.org

For technical queries, please
EMAIL technicalsupport@rsc.org

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

From 5th January 2012, RSC Publishing customers and users of scientific research content will be able to access the following free content through the RSC Publishing Platform:

• 2,400+ articles from the first two volumes of all new journals from RSC Publishing since 2008 (for 2012 this includes Catalysis Science & Technology, RSC Advances and Toxicology Research)
• 3,500+ articles from the first issue of each volume of RSC journals back to the year 2000 (except Faraday Discussions, Annual Reports and Issues in Environmental Science & Technology)
• First chapter of 1,050+ RSC eBooks on the RSC Publishing Platform
• Articles part of a special promotion
• Chemistry Education Research and Practice (open access)
• RSC Open Science – articles that authors have paid to be made freely available.

Who can access this free content?

All users of RSC content including:

• RSC Publishing Platform personal account holders
• Librarians’ Portal account holders
• RSC Members
• RSC Publishing customers and users
  • Institutions and organisations on trial and who have registered IP addresses with us  
  • Previous customers who access purchase content like RSC Journals Archive and RSC eBooks
  • Previous customers who access journal content for the years they have subscribed to.

With the amends to the RSC free access content, we have also launched a new RSC Journals Archive, which will cover content from 1841 to 2007.

An RSC Member looking to access RSC Publishing content?

Login to the RSC Publishing Platform using the 3rd option ‘Login with your subscriber username and password’ link
GO TO http://pubs.rsc.org/en/account/logon 

For technical queries, quoting reference P10137 please
EMAIL technicalsupport@rsc.org

Current and Past Customers

The below describes the content that current and past RSC Publishing customers maintain access to, in addition to the free access content highlighted above:

• The years of RSC journals that you have subscribed to (for example, if you subscribed to an RSC journal like Chemical Communications (ChemComm) in 2006 – 2010 but did not renew in 2011, you would maintain access to 2006 – 2010 but not have access to articles before or after this period unless they are part of the free access content model.)
• Those with registered IP addresses can access the first two volumes of new journals, even after they come off the free access new journal content model (this currently includes Analytical Methods, Chemical Science, Energy & Environmental Science, Food & Function, Integrative Biology, MedChemComm, Metallomics, Nanoscale and Polymer Chemistry)
• RSC Publishing purchased resources including RSC Journals Archive, RSC eBook Collections and RSC eBook Subject Collections.

For technical queries, quoting reference P10137 please
EMAIL technicalsupport@rsc.org

For customer account queries, quoting reference P10137 please
EMAIL salessupport@rsc.org

For any member queries, please
EMAIL membership@rsc.org

For any sales queries, quoting reference P10137 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

Join RSC Publishing on stand 270 at Online Information Show:

• FREE tea and coffee on the RSC Publishing stand
• DAILY competition to win a hamper EVERY day of the show
• DEMO ChemSpider – the FREE chemical database
• NEW titles available on FREE access
• NEW titles available for subscription
• NEW collections to suit your needs

Goodies on the RSC Publishing stand:

NEW developments from RSC Publishing:

RSC Publishing is also pleased to announce two new developments in the last couple of months, now available to download FREE from iTunes:

1. RSC Mobile App allows users to access subscribed content by authenticating through your institutions/organisations wireless network and users own RSC Publishing personal account to save and share searches. An Android version will be available at the beginning of 2012
2. ChemSpider Mobile App allows users to search the RSC’s FREE chemical database by structure or text-based searching

RSC Publishing staff available during Online Information 2011 include:

Stephen Hawthorne Sales Director	Dan Dyer Head of Sales Europe, Middle East, Africa & India	Richard Blount Journal Sales Executive UK & Northern Europe	Louise Peck Library Marketing Specialist

To discuss your needs for quality international scientific research content and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee
JOIN US on stand 270
EMAIL marketing@rsc.org quoting marketing code P11113

We look forward to seeing you there.

It’s an exciting time to join RSC Publishing. This is an opportunity to lead an organisation which is outperforming the chemistry publishing market in terms of growth, Impact Factors and innovation. This role demands a market-orientated and ambitious professional in the STM Publishing field to form part of the Senior Management Team at the RSC and drive the future direction and strategic management of the RSC’s publishing activities.

You will be responsible for a revenue budget of over £30 million and over 250 staff. Our portfolio comprises journals, books and databases as well as other innovative products such as ChemSpider. You will develop and implement, through your direct reports, progressive strategies to ensure we continue to grow and increase market share as well as ensuring effective financial management to continue to provide operating funds for the RSC.

For more information, please visit the jobs section of our website:
http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/rscwork/managing-director-publishing.asp

The Royal Society of Chemistry’s RSC Publishing division recently ran an annual photograph competition with the theme ‘Science in the Library’.  The competition prize was that the winning photograph would be placed on the front cover of the 2012 RSC Publishing Catalogue and was voted for by over 115 RSC staff and the RSC Library Advisory Board.

Congratulations to the winner
Steve Stich, from the Sheridan Libraries, of the Johns Hopkins University, USA
who entered the picture of the George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, taken by Norm Barker

To see the fabulous George Peabody Library, please review the front cover of the RSC Publishing Catalogue. 

You will also find all of the entries for the competition on pages 2-5.

Download your PDF copy of the 2012 RSC Publishing Catalogue

What does Jeremy say about our RSC Publishing resources?

Jeremy Garritano
Chemical Information Specialist and Associate Professor of Library Science
Purdue University, USA

“Having the RSC Gold package not only allows students and researchers access to the discoveries of today, but also to nearly 170 years of exploration in the chemical and related sciences. With a dedicated set of core chemistry-oriented journals and newer titles devoted to cutting-edge, interdisciplinary areas, the RSC Gold collection will assist in achieving the discoveries of tomorrow.”

For more information on RSC Gold
GO TO www.rsc.org/gold
EMAIL sales@rsc.org

2012 RSC Publishing Catalogue Highlights

The 2012 RSC Publishing Catalogue includes detailed information about RSC Publishing resources for your needs as well as key contact details.  Download your PDF copy of the 2012 RSC Publishing Catalogue  

Keep up-to-date with RSC Notes – our quarterly librarian and information specialist newsletter 

Highlights from the catalogue include:

NEW RSC Library Tool Kit – increase usage of your resources – page 37

Subject categorisation for RSC Publishing resources:

• Analytical
• Biological
• Catalysis
• Chemical Biology and Medicinal
• Energy
• Environmental
• Food
• General Chemistry
• Inorganic
• Materials
• Nanoscience
• Organic
• Physical

ChemSpider – RSC’s FREE chemical structure database – page 34

Mass Spectrometry Bulletin – print database discontinued at the end of 2011, any queries? 
EMAIL sales@rsc.org

NEW journals available for FREE access in 2012 for the first two volumes

• Catalysis Science & Technology – page 8
• RSC Advances – page 27

NEW journals now available for subscription in 2012

• Chemical Science – page 10
• MedChemComm – page 21
• Food & Function – page 15
• Polymer Chemistry – page 27

RSC Journals Archive – now with additional content for a more complete collection spanning 166 years (1841 – 2007) – page 29

83% of our journals have an impact factor over 3 – download About Our Journals for more information

Journal Issue Changes

For more information on RSC Publishing resources, please contact your RSC Account Manager or your local subscription agent and we will happily help.
EMAIL sales@rsc.org