Mass Spectrometry Bulletin Discontinuation

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:

You may also find the below Books and Specialist Periodical Report (SPR) of interest, for eBooks please contact your Regional Account Manager: 

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

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RightsLink and permission requests

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.

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Updates to RSC Free Access Content

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:

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:

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

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RSC Publishing announces new partnership for South Africa and Botswana

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

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More Accepted Manuscripts for RSC journals

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

From today, December 8th, any authors submitting to Analyst, Analytical Methods, CrystEngComm, Dalton, JAAS, Metallomics, Molecular BioSystems or RSC Advances will be given the option of publishing their research as an Accepted Manuscript.

Plus, the recently announced Toxicology Research opens for submissions today with this service.

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.

* * * * *

*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 Catalysis Science & Technology, ChemComm, Chemical Science, Energy & Environmental Science, Integrative Biology, Journal of Environmental Monitoring, Lab on a Chip, MedChemComm, Nanoscale, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry and PCCP.

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New friends, recycling and poisonous socks: Fall MRS in Boston

Old and new in BostonMassachusetts State House, BostonA 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:

Something for everyoneVisitors 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.

RSC Publishing Booth

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Nominate someone for an RSC Prize or Award

TrophyNominations for RSC Prizes and Awards are still open, so make sure you get yours submitted by 15 January.

Our Prizes and Awards represent the dedication and outstanding achievements in the chemicals sciences and are a platform to showcase inspiring science to gain the recognition deserved.  So if you know who has made a significant contribution to advancing the chemical sciences, there are nine categories of awards in which you can nominate them.

View our full list of Prizes and Awards and use the online system to make your nomination.

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Toxicology Research announced

The following news item about new journal Toxicology Research has just been released:Tox Res cover

Academic and industrial researchers in the field of toxicology will have a new option for the publication of their research in 2012, with the launch of Toxicology Research. The journal will be published in partnership with the British Toxicology Society and the Chinese Society of Toxicology.

Announcing the launch, James Milne, acting Managing Director of Publishing at the RSC, said:  “We are delighted to support the toxicology research community with this new journal, published in partnership with both the BTS and CST.  By providing authors with exceptional service through the submission and publication process, and providing free access to readers for the first two volumes, we anticipate Toxicology Research will quickly become preeminent in the field.

“The RSC prides itself in publishing journals of exceptional quality, relevance and timeliness, and Toxicology Research, with the editorial team involved, will certainly be in a good position to achieve this for the toxicology community”.

Toxicology Research will be a multidisciplinary journal covering both the fundamental and applied aspects of toxicology, including drug toxicity, food toxicity and their mechanisms, responses and risk/safety evaluation.  The journal opens for submissions on 1st December, and the first issue will be published at the end of May 2012.

Professor Nigel J Gooderham, Editor-in-Chief, comments “It is a privilege and honour to be invited to work with the Royal Society of Chemistry on the launch of this new publishing venture.  Current research in toxicology attempts to understand and explain biological response to noxious agents and draws upon the physical, biological and medical sciences.  Therefore the scope of Toxicology Research will be inclusive rather than specialist with the emphasis on publishing the highest quality toxicological science, irrespective of discipline.”

Authors submitting to Toxicology Research will benefit from rapid peer review and publication, with no page charges.  Authors have the option of publishing their research as an Accepted Manuscript*, and Open Access publication is also available as an option through RSC Open Science. Published research will have very high visibility: from launch until December 2013, all content will be freely available online for all readers via the website. Additionally, chemical structures and data contained in the journal will be integrated with ChemSpider, the RSC’s free chemical structure database. Authors with research that they would like to be considered for the first issues of Toxicology Research can submit online at www.rsc.org/toxicology.

For further details contact:

Richard Kelly, Managing Editor, email: toxres-rsc@rsc.org

*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.

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FREE tea and coffee at Online Information 2011

Online Information 2011, London, UK

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:

Chemical Science baseball hat

 

USB Scientist for RSC Customers

 

ChemSpider Keyring

 
Receive your complimentary
Chemical Science baseball hat
– ask Louise Peck on the stand
  Bespoke RSC scientist
USB memory stick for
current RSC customers
  2D ChemSpider keyring
for demoing the
RSC’s free chemical database
ChemSpider on the 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

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.

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Vacancy: Managing Director, Publishing

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

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