Materials that matter at the Fall MRS

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.

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Nominations for 2012 Prizes and Awards now open

Do you know someone who has made a significant contribution to advancing the chemical sciences?

TrophyThe RSC currently presents around 60 prestigious Prizes and Awards annually to scientists in all the main chemical science disciplines allowing for the greatest range of scientists to be recognised for their work; individuals, teams and organisations working across the globe.

There are nine categories of awards including specific categories for Industry and Education so whether you work in business, industry, research or education recognition is open to everyone.

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.

Do you know someone who has made a significant contribution to advancing the chemical sciences?  If so, view our full list of Prizes and Awards and use the online system to nominate them.

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Accepted Manuscript update

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.

*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 also published by Catalysis Science & Technology, ChemComm, Chemical Science, MedChemComm, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry and PCCP..
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Free trial finishing?

 
Affordable science, high impact, high quality
 

Over the last 18 months your institution may have had free access to some of the journals below, this free access is now ending. It will be turned off on the 1st of January 2012.

You can continue to access high quality, high impact science through discounted packages or affordable individual subscriptions.

Please contact sales@rsc.org and ask for a quote, we have prices to suit all budgets….

Chemical Science Energy & Environmental Science Polymer Chemistry
     
Chemical Science
£2,280/$3,648
Energy & Environmental Science
£1,110/$2,115
Polymer Chemistry
£1,990/$3,601
     
Food & Function Metallomics Analytical Methods
     
Food & Function
£1,197/$2,227

Metallomics
£1,068/$2,034
Analytical Methods
£2,109/$3,937

     
Integrative Biology Nanoscale MedChemComm
     
Integrative Biology
£1,068/$2,034

Nanoscale
£1,092/ $1,975

MedChemComm
£1,235/$1,976

 
  
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Free registration for ChemCareers 2011

More than 40 top firms will be taking part in this year’s RSC careers fair, ChemCareers 2011, which will take place from 31 October to 4 November.

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.

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 2011, it is free and you can also sign up to the ChemCareers MyRSC group to keep up to date with the programme of events.

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Find out more about ChemSpider SyntheticPages…

ChemSpider SyntheticPages is a freely available interactive database of synthetic chemistry. It contains practical and reliable organic, organometallic and inorganic chemical synthesis, reactions and procedures deposited by synthetic chemists. Synthetic methods on the site are updated continuously by chemists working in academic and industrial research laboratories. ChemSpider SyntheticPages encourages submissions from graduate students, postdocs, industrialists and academics.

You can submit any procedure or method that you have carried out in the lab. It could be a literature procedure or a new reaction, a general method or a one-off -curiosity. What is important is that it relates to your personal experience of the reaction.

Professor Peter Scott, University of Warwick is the founder and an editor of ChemSpider SyntheticPages, in this short video he tells us about ChemSpider SyntheticPages and his vision behind it…

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Accepted Manuscript service extended again

Getting your research published quickly is a top priority – and our Accepted Manuscript* service means research is available, in citable form, even more rapidly.  

From 3rd October, Catalysis Science & Technology, ChemComm and PCCP join Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Chemical Science and MedChemComm and provide submitting authors with the option of publishing their research as an Accepted Manuscript. More journals will follow over the coming months.

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.

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Accepted Manuscript service extended

For the past year, we have been trialling the publication of research articles as Accepted Manuscripts*

To date, more than 650 authors in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry have chosen to publish the unedited and unformatted version of their article as an Accepted Manuscript – meaning their research was made available, in citable form, to the community even more rapidly.

Publishing our research with OBC Accepted Manuscripts was easy and efficient.  Importantly our work was quickly made available to the scientific community” – Professor Margaret Brimble, University of Auckland, NZ

By publishing the results as Accepted Manuscripts, I can have my results visible to scientists in the field as soon as possible.” Professor Shuli You, Chinese Academy of Sciences

This service is now being extended to other journals in the RSC Publishing portfolio – and first on the list are Chemical Science and MedChemComm.

From 7th September 2011, any author who submits an article to one of these journals 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.

*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. More details …

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The Johns Hopkins University, USA wins

RSC Publishing - leader in Chemical Sciences

The Royal Society of Chemistry’s RSC Publishing division recently ran an annual photograph competition with the theme ‘Science in the Library’.  The competition prize was that the winning photograph would be placed on the front cover of the 2012 RSC Publishing Catalogue and was voted for by over 115 RSC staff and the RSC Library Advisory Board.

RSC Publishing Catalogue 2012


Congratulations
to the winner
Steve Stich, from the Sheridan Libraries, of the Johns Hopkins University, USA
who entered the picture of the George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, taken by Norm Barker

To see the fabulous George Peabody Library, please review the front cover of the RSC Publishing Catalogue. 

You will also find all of the entries for the competition on pages 2-5.

Download your PDF copy of the 2012 RSC Publishing Catalogue

 

What does Jeremy say about our RSC Publishing resources?

Jeremy Garritano, Purdue University, USAJeremy Garritano
Chemical Information Specialist and Associate Professor of Library Science
Purdue University, USA

“Having the RSC Gold package not only allows students and researchers access to the discoveries of today, but also to nearly 170 years of exploration in the chemical and related sciences. With a dedicated set of core chemistry-oriented journals and newer titles devoted to cutting-edge, interdisciplinary areas, the RSC Gold collection will assist in achieving the discoveries of tomorrow.”

For more information on RSC Gold
GO TO www.rsc.org/gold
EMAIL
sales@rsc.org

2012 RSC Publishing Catalogue Highlights

The 2012 RSC Publishing Catalogue includes detailed information about RSC Publishing resources for your needs as well as key contact details.  Download your PDF copy of the 2012 RSC Publishing Catalogue  

Keep up-to-date with RSC Notes – our quarterly librarian and information specialist newsletter 

Highlights from the catalogue include:

NEW RSC Library Tool Kit – increase usage of your resources – page 37

Subject categorisation for RSC Publishing resources:

  • Analytical
  • Biological
  • Catalysis
  • Chemical Biology and Medicinal
  • Energy
  • Environmental
  • Food
  • General Chemistry
  • Inorganic
  • Materials
  • Nanoscience
  • Organic
  • Physical

ChemSpider – RSC’s FREE chemical structure database – page 34

Mass Spectrometry Bulletin – print database discontinued at the end of 2011, any queries? 
EMAIL sales@rsc.org

NEW journals available for FREE access in 2012 for the first two volumes

NEW journals now available for subscription in 2012

RSC Journals Archive – now with additional content for a more complete collection spanning 166 years (1841 – 2007) – page 29

83% of our journals have an impact factor over 3 – download About Our Journals for more information

Journal Issue Changes

Over the last few years, we have seen 150% growth in content. In 2011, we’re on track to publish 20,000 articles with contributions from over 70 countries with significant growth from USA, China, Germany, Japan, France and Spain.  With all the additional quality international content, some journal issues have changed.

Journal 2011 Issue Number 2012 Issue Number
Chemical Communications 48 100
Chemical Society Reviews 12 24
Nanoscale 12 24
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 24 48
Soft Matter 24 48

More Information

For more information on RSC Publishing resources, please contact your RSC Account Manager or your local subscription agent and we will happily help.
EMAIL sales@rsc.org  

RSC Publishing - leader in Chemical Sciences

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Join us at the ACS in Denver

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is attending the ACS Fall 2011 National Meeting and Exposition. We like to invite you to join us!

Visit Booth 1100 to see how we’ve been working harder than ever to represent the chemical science community and promote the importance of our subject to a global audience. And there are lots of prizes to be won each day, including T-shirts, games and books.

Here are some events for your diary:

Sunday 28th August  Time Place
Aligning scientific expertise and passion through a career path in the chemical sciences (Antony Williams, ChemSpider, RSC) 13.40 – 14.00 Room 110
Monday 29th August    
Chemistry in the hand: The delivery of structure databases and spectroscopy gaming on mobile devices (Antony Williams, ChemSpider, RSC) 09.05 – 09.35 Room 110
Tuesday 30th August    
RSC Event: Why Wait? Join us for drinks and ice cream 13.00 RSC Booth 1100
WORKSHOP: An Introduction to ChemSpider – A Combination Platform of Free Chemistry Database, Free Prediction Engines and Wiki Environment (Antony Williams, ChemSpider, RSC) 08.30 – 11.00 Room 503
ChemSpider: Does community engagement work to build a quality online resource for chemists? 10.10 – 10.50 Room 110
Wednesday 31st August    
Structure representations in public chemistry databases: The challenges of validating the chemical structures for 200 top-selling drugs 10.45 – 11.05 Room 110
Thursday 1st September    
Identifying “known unknowns” using mass spectrometry data and ChemSpider 14.00 – 14.20 Room 709

(All events take place in the Colorado Convention Center, unless otherwise stated)

At Booth 1100 you can

  • Hear the very latest journal news and search the RSC Publishing platform
  • Find out more about RSC Advances (a new international, peer reviewed online journal) and pick up copies of other high-impact RSC journals
  • Try ChemSpider, the multiple award winning, chemical structure-based search engine providing free access to more than 25 million chemical structures. You can also meet Antony Williams, VP Strategic Development, ChemSpider and register for workshops during the ACS. Register NOW for ChemSpider Workshops
  • Browse over 60 new RSC books and take advantage of a special 20% show discount on all books featured on the stand
  • Meet RSC representatives and investigate how you can publish with one of the leading chemical science publishers in the world.

Other booth highlights to look out for include:

We look forward to meeting you at Booth 1100

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