RSC Publishing Blog

After another great week in Illinois and Wisconsin, the RSC Roadshow heads south to Georgia and North Carolina where we will be visiting:

April 30th – The Georgia Institute of Technology
May 1st – Emory University
May 3rd – University of North Carolina

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 Jamie Humphrey about the world of scholarly publishing, with tips on how to get published in high impact journals.

See photos from the tour so far on our Facebook Page and follow us on Twitter #RSC2012.

The last part of the tour will continue onto Pennsylvania and New York – read more about our US Roadshows 2012.

Looking for a career in chemistry? Explore what options are available by taking part in this year’s RSC careers fair, ChemCareers 2012, which takes place from 29 – 30 May.

ChemCareers gives you an opportunity to discover the huge range of career options available, learn how to market yourself to employers, seek expert advice on career planning and investigate further study options.

Best of all, registration is free.

And as an online event, ChemCareers makes use of a wide range of multimedia tools to provide delegates with a dynamic and interactive experience. These include:

• videos
• online presentations and webinars
• a wealth of downloadable information
• live chat sessions

Register for ChemCareers 2012 today,  it is free and you can also sign up to the ChemCareers MyRSC group, to keep up to date with the programme of careers events planned for 2012.

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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• RSC Publishing blog for product updates and news
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To discuss your needs for quality international scientific research content

JOIN US on stand 26
EMAIL marketing@rsc.org

We look forward to seeing you there.

Open access, deposition of articles and copyright issues can be a confusing and emotive issue for authors, publishers and funding agencies alike.

This can be partially explained by the sheer complexity of the subject, the legal phrasing of the various licenses and supporting documents, and the fact that many publishers have slightly different policies.

At RSC Publishing, we like to make it easy for authors to find the information they need.

Firstly, we give journal authors the choice of making their article Open Access through RSC Open Science. If you choose this publication route, you will pay an ‘article processing fee’ after peer-review and acceptance. The final ‘article of record’ is made available to all, immediately, via our website without any barriers to access.

Secondly, when it comes to access and deposition, we comply with the requirements of most of the major funding agencies, such as NIH and EPSRC. If we have published your article, you can deposit the accepted author form of it in a non-commercial repository. This includes pre-submission (eg ArXiV) and post-acceptance repositories, such as that of your institution or your funding body, plus your organisation’s intranet. You can also use your article in your thesis, both in print and online.

An embargo period of 12 months from acceptance applies to the deposition of non-Open Access articles in repositories that are available to the public.

Full details on all options for deposition, with associated Licence to Publish forms, can be found on our website.  

Thirdly, as a journal author with RSC Publishing, you retain the copyright on your published work. We do not ask you to transfer the copyright to us, the publisher. All we ask is that you sign an exclusive Licence to Publish. You can find out more here.  

Finally, all these policies are occasionally subject to changes and amendments. If you need any clarification, or have any questions, please contact us  – we’re always happy to help.

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

Our Accepted Manuscript* service means your research is available, in citable form, even more rapidly. And now five more titles are joining the growing number of RSC journals** to offer them.

From January 9^th 2012, any authors submitting to Food & Function, Green Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry, NJC or Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences will be given the option of publishing their research as an Accepted Manuscript.

Our dedicated webpage has answers to all the most frequently asked questions – and you can bookmark the RSC Publishing blog to keep up-to-date with the latest news on Accepted Manuscripts and more.

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*An Accepted Manuscript is an unedited and unformatted version of an article that is published shortly after acceptance. It is available as a downloadable pdf file. It is then replaced by the fully edited and formatted Advance Article.

**Accepted Manuscripts are already published by Analyst, Analytical Methods, Catalysis Science & Technology, ChemComm, Chemical Science, CrystEngComm, Dalton, Energy & Environmental Science, Integrative Biology, JAAS, Journal of Environmental Monitoring, Lab on a Chip, MedChemComm, Metallomics, Molecular BioSystems, Nanoscale, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, PCCP and RSC Advances.

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