RSC Publishing Blog

The Royal Society of Chemistry will be in Philadelphia for the ACS meeting this month – and we’d love to meet you. Visit us at Booth #701 and find out more about our free content  and how the RSC is going from strength to strength in its mission to advance the chemical sciences. Some key free events taking place at booth #701 include:

ChemSpider demo  – Monday 20th at 11 am

Discover how you can make the most of our free chemical structure database, providing fast search access to over 26 million structures.

Book signing:  The Case of the Poisonous Socks – Monday 20th at 2pm

Celebrated author William H Brock will be at the stand with copies of The Case of the Poisonous Socks, which offers 42 light-hearted tales of chemists and their discoveries. The book will be selling at just $15 (less than half its list price) so don’t miss out!

Join us for coffee – Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st from 11 am

Coffee and other drinks are free while stocks last     

There are many more RSC and ChemSpider events taking place around the venue, and a full list is included at the bottom of this blog post.

So come along to Booth #701 and:

• Find out more about our new Impact Factors and rising stars within RSC journals
• Hear the very latest journal news and search the RSC Publishing platform
• Browse over 60 new RSC books and take advantage of a special 30% show discount
• Try ChemSpider, the multiple award winning, chemical structure-based search engine providing free access to more than 25 million chemical structures
• Meet RSC representatives and investigate how you can publish with one of the world’s leading chemical science publishers
• Harriet Gould and Emma Favager from our Commercial Sales team will also be on site to speak to you about Chemistry World, webinars, recruitment, digital options, and more.

 We look forward to meeting you in Philadelphia!

 While stocks last*

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.

Read more about this announcement….

Quality remains at the heart of RSC Publishing, and the fact that we published 4 times as many articles in 2011 as we did in 2006 hasn’t changed that.

Our exceptional standards are reinforced by the recently published 2011 Journal Citation Reports ®.

Individual journal highlights include ChemComm (6.17), Green Chemistry (6.32), Energy & Environmental Science (9.61), Natural Product Reports (9.79) and ChemSocRev (28.76).

And impressive first (partial) Impact Factors were recorded for Chemical Science (7.525) and Polymer Chemistry (5.321).

But how do we measure up when compared with other publishers?

• The average impact factor (IF) for a chemistry journal* stands at 2.67: our average IF is 5.46 
• Of the top 20 journals in the multidisciplinary chemistry category, six are from RSC Publishing. This is more than any other Society publisher
• 11 of our 27 journals have an IF of 5 and above
• Looking at 5-year IFs, we have more titles in the top 20 than any other publisher

So the figures speak for themselves: for guaranteed impact, choose RSC Publishing.

* The 7 Chemistry journal subject-categories as listed in Journal Citation Reports ®: Chemistry, Analytical; Chemistry; Applied; Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear; Chemistry, Medicinal; Chemistry, Multidisciplinary; Chemistry, Organic; Chemistry, Physical.

Full journal listing:

ǂ Partial IF only, based on five issues or less

The Impact Factor provides an indication of the average number of citations per paper. Produced annually, Impact Factors are calculated by dividing the number of citations in a year, by the number of citeable articles published in the preceding two years.

The 5-Year Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from a journal published in the past five years have been cited in the JCR year. For journals in subjects where citation activity continues to rise through several years, this metric allows more of their total citation activity to be included in a critical performance metric.

Data based on 2011 Journal Citation Reports ®, (Thomson Reuters, 2012).

We are delighted to be exhibiting at the SLA 2012 Annual Conference in Chicago (15th -18th July). For those of you that can attend, we look forward to welcoming you at booth 173 to discuss your RSC Publishing needs, showcasing products such as RSC Mobile and our Journals Archive, as well as dealing with any queries you might have. 

We also hope to catch up with you at one of our sponsored DCHE breakfasts.

If you would like to arrange an appointment to discuss your requirements, please contact Robert Bergiven.

Do you submit crystallographic data with your articles? If you submit to several different publishers, are you confused by which procedure you should follow?

Then you’ll be glad to hear that at RSC Publishing we are making it easier for you.

From September 1^st, all small molecule single crystal data files (CIFs) must be accompanied by the CCDC reference number(s)* when you submit your article. So, you will need to deposit your crystal data files with, and obtain the relevant reference number from, CCDC before you begin the submission process. Many of you will recognise this as the process used by the majority of publishers.

Your crystal data files will be published alongside your article, as normal. The CCDC reference numbers will still be quoted in the online and print versions of the article.

As this change also aligns us with approved CCDC practices, it means a much more streamlined process for everyone involved.

Full details are available in the Instructions for authors, but if you have any questions, please contact us.  

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*The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) is dedicated to the advancement of chemistry and crystallography for the public benefit through providing high-quality information services and software. It is the internationally recognised repository for crystal structures, providing a reference number for each structure deposited.

Our new premium collection of international journals, databases and magazines offering access to all published material is proving to be very popular within the academic community in the UK. Currently 21 universities, including the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, York, Leeds, Warwick and Imperial College London, subscribe to RSC Gold, with several more interested in this comprehensive package.

In an era of carefully balanced budgets, the success of RSC Gold highlights the value placed by institutions on our content.

If a university has an RSC Gold subscription, staff are entitled to receive a 15% discount on the relevant RSC Open Science fee. Authors are offered the option of paying a fee in exchange for making their accepted communication, research paper or review article openly available to all via the web. Of course, RSC Open Science will only be available to authors once their papers have been accepted for publication, following the normal rigorous peer-review procedures.

For more information, read our Press Release.

Using RSC apps to access content

Following another fantastic week in Georgia and North Carolina, the RSC Roadshow travels north east for the last stages of the trip to Pennsylvania and New York where we will be visiting:

• May 7th – University of Pittsburgh
• May 8th – Pennsylvania State University
• May 10th – University of Pennsylvania
• May 11th – Columbia University

At each University, Books Commissioning Editor Merlin Fox will be on hand to show you RSC’s apps on mobile devices and talk about our newest books. Join him for lunch and debate the reading habits in the 21st Century. And find out more from Managing Editor Richard Kelly about the world of scholarly publishing, with tips on how to get published in high impact journals.

Photos of the tour so far are on our Facebook Page and you can follow us on our journey on Twitter #RSC2012.

Read more about where we’ve been this year – US Roadshow 2012.