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RSC Publishing Platform reaches the one million milestone

The one millionth paper Controlled assembly of plasmonic colloidal nanoparticle clusters by José M. Romo-Herrera, Ramón A. Alvarez-Puebla and Luis M. Liz-Marzán.

This seven figure milestone was reached as the RSC’s exceptional range of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, books, databases and publishing services to the chemical science community more than doubled in output in the last three years.

Royal Society of Chemistry editorial director James Milne said: “Today marks a significant landmark for the RSC Publishing Platform. Delivering the millionth record, a paper published in the RSC journal Nanoscale, demonstrates not only the significance of the RSC in terms of disseminating high-quality research content worldwide but also with many millions of article downloads each year, the value researchers place on being able to access this content through our new publishing platform.” In the last four years RSC Publishing has gone from being the fifth largest publisher in chemistry to challenging Wiley in third place.

“This incredible growth, including launching 10 new journals and more than doubling the number of high impact papers published, seems set to continue into 2011,” added James. “In addition to growing in scale, the quality of the RSC Portfolio remains at the top of the field. More than 90% of the RSC’s 30 journals have an impact factor over 3.0 – a feat no other publisher can match. This high quality portfolio is attracting more and more submissions from a truly international research community, all supported by a highly qualified editorial team providing exceptional customer service to the journal authors. Similar developments are taking place with the book’s portfolio with a record 85 books published last year alone, most also available as ebooks.”

The new platform, providing powerful, fast access to journals, books and databases from RSC Publishing, provides access to more than one million articles, papers and database records using one simple interface where results are refined through intuitive filters.

Professor Luis M. Liz-Marzan, from the University of Vigo in Spain and lead author of the one millionth paper, said he was delighted with the achievement and explained why he chooses RSC publishing to promote his work: “I publish in RSC journals because they guarantee high quality standards and widespread readership. I am delighted that one of my papers has become RSC’s millionth paper.”

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Free access to new RSC Publishing journals runs out at the end of this year

Recommend Analytical Methods, Integrative Biology, Metallomics, Nanoscale or Energy & Envrionmental Science to your librarian to retain access

You and your colleagues might have been enjoying free access to the first two volumes of the following RSC Publishing journals, launched in 2009:

• Analytical Methods – Linking industry and academia by focusing on the practical value of analytical science for real world applications

• Integrative Biology  – Publishing novel biological research, based on innovative experimental and theoretical methodologies

• Metallomics –  Interdisciplinary science which provides insight into the role of metals in biological, environmental and clinical systems

 Nanoscale – Experimental and theoretical work across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology

High Quality Content

In 2011 these journals will be available by subscription only. And the best advocate to prove to you that RSC journals provide essential research for scientists is Energy & Environmental Science. Launched in 2008, it’s received its first Impact Factor: an impressive 8.5!
 
Also guaranteed is the high quality content that RSC Publishing journals are renowned for. With a publishing history that dates back to 1841, we are a not-for-profit publisher with a track record of a market leading journal portfolio:
 
• The average impact factor (IF) across our portfolio is 5.4**
• 90% of our titles have an IF over 3

Want to Retain Access?

Single subscriptions to the above publications***are available from £940/$1,701 and there’s a 35% discount for package subscriptions. So if you’d like to talk to us about your subscription options, simply click here and we’ll contact you.

If you are a scientist and would like to retain access to the above publications, recommend them to your information specialist today!

* Please note that Energy & Environmental Science is included in Package A/A+.
** Data based on 2009 Journal Citation Reports ® (Thomson Reuters, 2010)
*** If you subscribe to Package Gold, you automatically receive access to these journals.

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New RSC Publishing platform launched today

Today saw the launch of the new RSC Publishing platform which provides access to nearly one million journal articles and book chapters through one simple, integrated search.RSC Publishing platform

So how will the new platform benefit you?

  • Save time by searching across all RSC-hosted journal, book and database content using one simple search
  • Discover new research as the platform will automatically include related articles
  • Find the right content fast through filtered searching which allows you faster access to relevant information by displaying  authors and RSC publications that have published related work
  • Share & recommend research with tools such as Facebook, Twitter and Google
  • Register and create a personalised account which allows you to store searches and receive search results as alerts

Project Manager and Electronic Publisher Graham McCann explains the processes and project priorities: “We created the new platform in consultation with the international scientific and librarian community by running a beta version alongside the existing RSC Publishing website. Everybody had the chance to actively contribute by submitting their feedback and ideas.”

Here are some user comments we received during the beta testing:

“I really like the ability to do a search by specific month.  I also like the filters, in particular the possibility to specify a journal.”

“It looks pretty slick for accessing the eBooks. I especially like the variety of “Browse by” features (series, subject, year, new) and the related books & article links. The same author feature is fun since it lets you easily move between the author’s monograph and journal literature.”

“This is an excellent move. The interaction platform allows the viewer to have access to more information on a particular article and hence save time and it has fewer steps.”

“I really appreciate the Citation download link. Clean look to the site, non-cluttered. Excellent.”

We’d like to encourage everybody to visit the platform and try it out for themselves.
RSC Publishing Platform: search faster • navigate smarter • connect more

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