RSC Publishing Blog

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

Are you an author? Do you need permission to use material from an RSC journal article? If so, you’ll be delighted to hear that the permission request process is now much quicker and easier, and available 24/7.

That’s because we have just introduced the RightsLink system for processing requests to use material from RSC journals. Go to the Instructions for using RightsLink to find out what to do.

If you are an RSC author, and would like to reproduce your own figures, etc in another publication, you do not have to request permission.

Also, if you are submitting an article or chapter to an RSC publication and you wish to reproduce figures from another RSC publication, you do not have to request permission. 

All details can be found on our Permission Request pages.

To reproduce material from other RSC publications, such as Chemistry World, Education in Chemistry or RSC books, you will still need to use the Permission Request Form.

If you have any questions, please contact the Contracts & Copyright department.

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

A unusually warm and sunny Boston welcomed delegates to the 2011 MRS Fall Meeting last week.

And just like the city, where the old blends with the new and exciting, old friends and new were among the 5,000+ delegates.

Of those who visited the Exhibition Hall, few could have failed to notice the RSC Publishing booth (we did warn you about the bright pink). But many visitors were surprised to find out that the booth was made from recycled, and recyclable, cardboard – the first time we had tried this option for an exhibition. Did it work? Well, we believe it did, but here are some photos:

Visitors browsed the journals on display, with Journal of Materials Chemistry, Energy & Environmental Science and Nanoscale attracting the most attention. The RSC Nanoscience & Nanotechnology book series was also a big hit, along with the  Case of the Poisonous Socks .

Our ‘everyone’s a winner’ feature proved very popular, particularly the T-shirts and the ‘staplers’ that don’t use staples. The winner of the top prize, selected at random from all scanned delegates, was Kyeong-ju Moon from Yonsei University in Korea.

We’ve put some more of our photos from Boston on the RSC facebook page – take a look to see if you spot anything (or anyone) familiar. And if you can share your MRS photos with us on the same page.

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

If you’re in Boston for the 2011 MRS Fall Meeting and Exhibit from 28 November to 2 December, make sure you drop by Booth #110. We will be showcasing our journals and books and giving prizes to all booth visitors who enter the lucky dip competition. And we’re proud to support the community by sponsoring the poster sessions at the event.

But why is the 2011 MRS Fall Meeting important to a publisher historically renowned for high quality chemistry research?

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

Published topics range from synthesis of materials to a diversity of applications. The types of materials include organic and hybrid materials as well as polymers. Techniques include new synthetic procedures, the design and understanding of materials, microfluidic and nanofluidic technologies and the study of applications. Electronic, magnetic and optical properties of materials are included, in addition to applications in catalysis, energy, biology and other interdisciplinary sciences. Coverage also incorporates all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Journal titles include: Dalton Transactions, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Energy & Environmental Science, Nanoscale, CrystEngComm, Lab on a Chip and Integrative Biology.

Book series include the new RSC Polymer Chemistry series, the established RSC Nanoscience & Nanotechnology series, and the forthcoming RSC Smart Materials 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 materials science research, choose RSC Publishing.

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

From 1st November, any authors submitting to Energy & Environmental Science, Integrative Biology, Journal of Environmental Monitoring, Lab on a Chip or Nanoscale 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.