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Materials that matter at the Fall MRS

10 Nov 2011

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

04 Nov 2011

The 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

01 Nov 2011

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 registration for ChemCareers 2011

14 Oct 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…

13 Oct 2011

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

03 Oct 2011

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.

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Accepted Manuscript service extended

07 Sep 2011

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.

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The Johns Hopkins University, USA wins

02 Sep 2011

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.

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
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

Catalysis Science & Technology – page 8
RSC Advances – page 27

NEW journals now available for subscription in 2012

Chemical Science – page 10
MedChemComm – page 21
Food & Function – page 15
Polymer Chemistry – page 27

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

16 Aug 2011

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:

Discover International Year of Chemistry 2011 activities
Connect with MyRSC, the professional network for the chemical sciences
Find out about the new Chemistry World Jobs website.

We look forward to meeting you at Booth 1100

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Gold 24 carat scientific research

01 Jul 2011



	How does GOLD enrich cutting edge science through technical application? To celebrate gold’s role in science and technology in the International Year of Chemistry, the World Gold Council and the RSC have teamed up to develop a unique ‘microsite’ offering FREE ACCESS to some of the RSC’s best gold-related publications until the end of 2011. There is a spread of historical and cutting-edge papers, spanning catalysis, chemistry, nanotechnology and novel materials. 100 FREE GOLD RESEARCH ARTICLES When you ask someone what comes into their mind when you say the word ‘gold’, the responses you receive rarely offers any surprise. Jewellery is probably at the forefront of most people’s mind, along with various examples of gold’s role in the world of finance. Words such as ‘science’, ‘technology’ and (most definitely) ‘chemistry’ rarely get a mention. This, perhaps, is not a surprise. To most people’s mind gold is eternal – the ultimate preserver of wealth, a constant typified by the jewellery many of us wear often throughout our entire lives. Physical sciences such as chemistry on the other hand are all about change – manipulating the elements to generate useful materials. How could gold play a role in chemistry? Of course, scientists now know that gold exhibits rich chemistry under certain conditions. 100 years ago Rutherford unravelled the structure of the atom with his famous ‘gold foil’ experiments. Even longer ago, Faraday correctly described the true nature of colloidal gold. Since then, the link between gold and chemistry has grown stronger by the decade. From catalysis to novel chemicals to nanotechnology, researchers have continually identified new uses for the metal, building on the discoveries of the past. We invite you to take a look through the collection, and we hope you find something relevant to your area of research. Dr Trevor Keel, World Gold Council Professor Graham Hutchings, Cardiff University Discover the GOLD today… 100 FREE RESEARCH ARTICLES Visit www.rsc.org/gold100 – User name wgc – Password wgc Other RSC GOLD links of interest: • Gold: Faraday Discussion 152 • Chemistry World Gold Podcast with Johnny Ball” • Visual Elements: Gold • Gold catalysis in the news – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

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