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Pittcon 2013 – were you a winner?

26 Mar 2013

Delegates met with staff, browsed our books and journals and enjoyed a free coffee

Scientists from around the globe descended on Philadelphia last week for Pittcon 2013 – and we were there too!

We had a range of top titles on display, including Analyst, Analytical Methods, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry (JAAS) and the flagship general chemistry journal, Chemical Science.

And, as always, our books generated lots of interest, including UHPLC in Life Sciences, Practical Statistics for the Analytical Scientist and our popular science title, Science of Chocolate.

Thank you to everyone that entered our competition to win a Kindle Fire. Congratulations to our lucky winner: Carina Berglund from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden!

Even if you didn’t make it to Philadelphia, don’t miss out on our special offers this Spring:

FREE e-membership and a subscription to Chemistry World

Join RSC e-membership FREE using promo code PITT13 before 31 May 2013 and receive a 12-month digital subscription to Chemistry World.

With news, features, opinion, podcasts and the latest job advertisements, Chemistry World is the best way to keep up to date with the global chemical science community. Additional benefits include professional networking opportunities in your field through one of over 70 RSC subject-based groups.

FREE RSC Publishing Personal Account

Register today and gain access to ALL free content from RSC Publishing, including the first 2 volumes of our new journals and a sample chapter from every book in the RSC eBook Collection.

Try ChemSpider today

ChemSpider is our free chemical structure database that provides text and structure search access to over 28 million records. Try it out and see what you can discover.

Gold for Gold

We’re rewarding RSC Gold customers with voucher codes to publish a select number of papers Open Access in RSC journals. Find out more

You can also discover more about our books and journals through our e-alerts and newsletters.

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Springing into action at MRS San Francisco!

25 Mar 2013

By Joanne Thomson.

RSC Publishing will be exhibiting at the Spring MRS meeting at booth #602

Heading to San Francisco for the 2013 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit?

Drop by RSC Publishing booth #602 to find materials that matter.

If you’ve seen us before at the Fall MRS meeting, you’ll know we publish a diverse range of books and journals covering the breadth of materials science – from the synthesis of materials through to an assortment of applications.

At this meeting, we’re celebrating the launch of our new title, Materials Horizons. The journal will publish first reports of exceptional significance at the cutting-edge interface of materials science with chemistry, physics, biology and engineering – and the great news is that all the content will be free to access until the end of 2015. It opens for submissions on 2 April 2013 – find out more at the booth.

Of course, we’ll have our other top titles on display, including Biomaterials Science, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C and the flagship general chemistry journal, Chemical Science.

You can enjoy a conference discount of 30% (or 35% if you’re an RSC member) on all RSC books on display at our booth, including Janus Particle Synthesis, Self-assembly and Applications from our Smart Materials book series and our popular science title, Science of Chocolate.

So to find out more about cutting-edge research, top quality reference works or the best place to publish – make sure you visit booth #602.

Meet the editors:


Liz Dunn Editor, Soft Matter, Materials Horizons Managing Editor, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C, Polymer Chemistry and Biomaterials Science Contact to arrange a meeting	Sam Keltie Deputy Editor, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C

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High impact analytical science at Pittcon 2013

08 Mar 2013

By Joanne Thomson.

Will you be at the Pittcon conference on 17-21 March?

If so, we’d love to invite you to join us for coffee at RSC booth #3549!

Browse our books and journals and find out why RSC Publishing is the best home for your research. And enjoy a 30% conference discount on all books on display (or 35% if you are an RSC member).

You could also win a Kindle Fire – simply sign up for one of our email alerts at booth #3549 to be in with a chance of winning.

The following Editorial staff will be attending Pittcon and would be pleased to meet you and answer your questions:

	Rebecca Brodie Deputy Editor, Analyst, Analytical Methods, JAAS and Metallomics
	May Copsey Editor, Analyst, Analytical Methods, JAAS and Metallomics
	Janet Freshwater Senior Commissioning Editor, Books
	Jennifer Griffiths Editorial Development Manager, North America
	Andrew Turley Deputy Editor, Chemistry World

Please feel free to get in touch with any of the staff before the conference to arrange a meeting.

We look forward to meeting you in Philadelphia!

Joanne Thomson
Stand Manager

PS We’re delighted to be presenting the Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science to Professor Norman Dovichi at Pittcon. Join us for his award symposium on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 2:00 PM, Room 126B.

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5 Great reasons to visit the RSC Stand at the UKSG Conference

08 Mar 2013

By Max Espley.

There’s a lot to get round, but here’s why you need to be at stand #55/56 from Monday 8th to Wednesday 10th April.

View a copy of The Merck Index* and see a demo of The Merck Index* Online – Bubbly and nibbles will accompany our official launch on Tuesday at 14.00
Find out more about how we support OA, including our innovative initiative, Gold for Gold – Drinks and nibbles will accompany our presentation on Monday at 13.00
Win a kindle fire – you’ll need steady hands to tackle our Buzzwire game – fastest time gets the prize
See what else is new for 2013 including our new journals Biomaterials Science and Toxicology Research
Above all have any of your questions answered by one of our team – if you would like to arrange a sales meeting contact Dan Dyer, Head of Sales

We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the 2013 UKSG Conference in Bournemouth.

*The name THE MERCK INDEX is owned by Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, N.J., U.S.A., and is licensed to The Royal Society of Chemistry for use in the U.S.A. and Canada.

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Apps with real impact

27 Feb 2013

By Abigail Hallowes.

Some apps have real impact, we’ve just sponsored two such apps.

Green Solvents and Lab Solvents are innovative apps for the iOS and Android platforms that list solvents and their scores versus various environmentally relevant properties. They are based on published data that had not been widely disseminated in conveniently available media. The apps are freely available and were developed by Dr. Alex M. Clark at Molecular Materials Informatics (MMI, Montreal, Canada) after an initial idea from Dr. Sean Ekins at Collaborations in Chemistry (CIC, Fuquay Varina, USA).

“These apps are first class examples of how green chemistry data can be delivered to a mobile device and complement other apps such as ChemSpider Mobile, which we have developed with Alex.” said Antony J. Williams, VP Strategic Development for the RSC. “We are honoured to support such efforts that raise awareness of green chemistry and educate the public and serve a need for scientists in the lab”.

“It is really wonderful validation of these apps that an organisation such as the RSC would sponsor Green Solvents and Lab Solvents and this will help to further raise their visibility to scientists globally” said Alex Clark, owner of Molecular Materials Informatics.

Find out more and download the apps today: Green Solvents and Lab Solvents

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RSC launches Materials Horizons journal

29 Jan 2013

By Joanne Thomson.

The new home for rapid reports of exceptional significance on innovative materials

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Publishing is delighted to announce Materials Horizons, a new peer-reviewed journal for first reports of exceptional significance across the breadth of materials research.

Announcing the launch, James Milne, Executive Director of RSC Publishing, said: “Materials science is an expansive and rapidly evolving field of real relevance to the chemical sciences. Only last week, the UK Science Minister, David Willetts, announced £73 million of investment for new facilities and equipment to support research in advanced materials in the UK.

“We are delighted to support the breadth of the global materials research community with this new journal. Materials Horizons will be a world class journal characterised by the quality, ease and speed of publication, and innovative technology for which RSC Publishing is renowned. As a not-for-profit publisher, this new addition to our portfolio will also go towards facilitating the RSC’s aim to advance the chemical sciences for the benefit of society.”

The journal will open for submissions in April 2013 and the first issue will be published in late 2013.

Materials Horizons will be:

High impact – only publishing the most novel and exciting advances
A leader – the Editorial Board, led by Seth Marder (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), will drive scientific development, with Scientific Editors helping to maintain scientific standards
Interdisciplinary – showcasing the best research at the cutting-edge interface of materials science with chemistry, physics, biology and engineering
Internationally visible – free access to all content published during 2014 and 2015, guaranteeing maximum exposure
Rapid – speedy reviewing and publication in as little as a day after acceptance with our Accepted Manuscript option

Seth Marder, Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, has been appointed Editorial Board Chair of the new journal. “It is a very exciting opportunity for me to work with the team at the RSC to help launch Materials Horizons, a new kind of society journal geared to rapid publication of truly top calibre, first reports of materials research broadly defined,” he says. “Importantly, while published by a chemical society, the journal will seek to serve the broader materials community, by welcoming papers that cover the gamut of materials research, providing a forum for editorials on the status and future of materials research, and content geared specifically to educating and engaging younger researchers in the field. With this, we hope to make Materials Horizons an indispensable resource for all researchers in the materials community.”

Further details will be released over the coming weeks – make sure you don’t miss out by registering your details to receive the regular Materials Horizons newsletter.

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Royal Society of Chemistry to publish The Merck Index

13 Dec 2012

By Valerie Simpson.

The famous “bible” of chemistry, The Merck Index, is to join the highly acclaimed publishing portfolio of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

The Merck Index has been considered the standard chemistry reference work for generations of professionals and has sold over one million copies worldwide. From April 2013, the Royal Society of Chemistry will take over its publication and launch the 15^th edition.

Dr James Milne, RSC Executive Director, publishing, said: “The Merck Index is a quality product with a peerless pedigree but, being familiar to the scientific community worldwide, it is also emblematic of our organisation’s rapidly-expanding international presence and influence. We know The Merck Index will be a valuable addition to the products and services the RSC offers its customers. Now we are looking forward eagerly to developing The Merck Index for the digital future.”

The RSC already plans significant development of The Merck Index online – beginning with offering all buyers of the 15^th edition one year’s free access to a newly-developed online version. The RSC will continue to develop The Merck Index to provide a valuable, trusted and relevant resource for scientists and researchers.

To find out more about the 15^th edition of The Merck Index visit the website and register your interest to receive further updates.

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Fall MRS Boston: were you a winner?

06 Dec 2012

By Joanne Thomson.

It was great to meet old friends and new at the RSC Publishing booth at the 2012 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston last week.

After the positive feedback we received last year, we opted for another environmentally friendly cardboard booth. We had a range of top titles on display, including Energy & Environmental Science, Nanoscale and our new journal Biomaterials Science.

Lots of visitors were keen to learn more about Journal of Materials Chemistry, which, in 2013, continues as three journals: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, B and C.

And, as always, our books proved popular, in particular our new Smart Materials book series and Chocolate as Medicine.

Delegates enjoy the Visual Elements periodic table jigsaw

Thank you to everyone that entered our competition to win an e-reader. Congratulations to our lucky winner: Naoki Fukata from National Institute of Materials Science in Japan!

We’ve posted some photos from the meeting on the RSC Facebook page. Share your MRS photos with us on the same page.

Even if you didn’t make it to Boston, don’t miss out on our special offers this winter:

FREE e-membership and a subscription to Chemistry World

Join RSC e-membership FREE using promo code MRS12 before 31 December 2012 and receive a 12-month digital subscription to Chemistry World.

With news, features, opinion, podcasts and the latest job advertisements, Chemistry World is the best way to keep up to date with the global chemical science community.

Additional benefits include professional networking opportunities in your field through one of over 70 RSC subject-based groups.

FREE RSC Publishing Personal Account

Register today and gain access to ALL free content from RSC Publishing, including the first 2 volumes of our new journals and a sample chapter from every book in the RSC eBook Collection.

Try ChemSpider today

ChemSpider is our free chemical structure database that provides text and structure search access to over 28 million records. Try it out and see what you can discover.

Gold for Gold

We’re rewarding RSC Gold customers with voucher codes to publish a select number of papers Open Access in RSC journals. Find out more

You can also discover more about our books and journals through our e-alerts and newsletters.

Any questions or comments? Contact us >

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Anyone for Open Access?

30 Nov 2012

By Max Espley.

We have a great initiative, and we want to extend it to the rest of the world.

Launched in the Summer, our Gold for Gold pilot, enabling RSC Gold subscribers in the UK to publish RSC papers free-of-charge via Gold Open Access (OA), was a direct reaction to researchers being asked to publish OA, but without necessarily having the funding to do so.

Following the pilot’s popularity (at least 5 high-profile institutions have already taken advantage of Gold for Gold) we don’t want others to miss out. So, from now on, all RSC Gold subscribing institutions will be rewarded with voucher codes to publish OA articles at no cost.

This is an excellent opportunity for authors to increase the visibility of your quality research.

For more information, go to our Gold for Gold website. And, to find out exactly how the process will work, take a look at our FAQs.

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RSC Databases become online-only

26 Nov 2012

By Laura Finn.

RSC Publishing is committed to disseminating chemical science information in the most relevant and timely way possible.

Print issues of the RSC’s databases have become less and less valuable to our readers, therefore our databases will be available online only from January 2013.

RSC databases provide rapid and cost-effective access to key developments in the field, so free up your shelves and enjoy the dynamic search capabilities, fast indexing and cutting-edge content of RSC databases online:

Analytical Abstracts: Unparalleled current coverage of analytical and bioanalytical science
Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions: Graphical abstracts of new developments in catalysis research
Chemical Hazards in Industry: Invaluable health and safety for all sectors of the chemical industries
Laboratory Hazards Bulletin: The latest laboratory health and safety issues
Methods in Organic Synthesis: Delivering the most important current developments in organic synthesis
Natural Product Updates: Graphical abstracts of new developments in natural product chemistry

(NB. Print-only database Chromatography Abstracts is ceasing publication at the end of 2012 and will not be available for renewal. All Chromatography Abstracts content will still be accessible online, as part of Analytical Abstracts.)

Contact sales@rsc.org to discuss subscription opportunities and discounted packages, or find out more at www.rsc.org/databases.

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RSC Publishing Blog

Pittcon 2013 – were you a winner?

Springing into action at MRS San Francisco!

High impact analytical science at Pittcon 2013

5 Great reasons to visit the RSC Stand at the UKSG Conference

Apps with real impact

RSC launches Materials Horizons journal

Royal Society of Chemistry to publish The Merck Index

Fall MRS Boston: were you a winner?

Anyone for Open Access?

RSC Databases become online-only

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