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Royal Society of Chemistry to publish The Merck Index

13 Dec 2012

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.

*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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Fall MRS Boston: were you a winner?

06 Dec 2012

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

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

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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Materials that matter at the Fall MRS

01 Nov 2012

What are you doing on 25–30 November? If the answer is attending the Fall MRS meeting in Boston, then make sure you come and see us at booth #120.

RSC Publishing activities have evolved over recent years in response to the needs of the increasingly interdisciplinary community of materials scientists. This year is particularly significant as we have some brand new publications to showcase will be of real interest to you.

Our new journal, Biomaterials Science launches in January and will have free access for the first two years. The highly regarded Journal of Materials Chemistry is expanding and becoming three separate journals. And we launch the new RSC Smart Materials book series with the publication of the first book in the series – Janus Particle Synthesis, Self-Assembly and Applications.

Staff on the stand will include our editors who will be delighted to meet you, and explain why RSC Publishing makes a good home for your materials science research. In attendance will be Liz Dunn, Managing Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry, Soft Matter, Biomaterials Science and Polymer Chemistry; Philip Earis, Managing Editor of Energy & Environmental Science, Nanoscale and PCCP; and Merlin Fox and Leanne Marle, both Commissioning Editors, Books.

You can find out about Gold for Gold, our innovative initiative that rewards researchers at all institutions that subscribe to RSC Gold with credits to publish RSC journal papers free-of-charge, via Gold Open Access.


Liz Dunn	Philip Earis	Merlin Fox	Leanne Marle

We are also offering you the chance to win a Kindle Fire – simply sign up for one of our email alerts at booth #120 to be in with a chance of winning.

So to find out more about cutting-edge research, top quality reference works or the best place to publish – make sure you visit booth #120.

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RSC Endorses KBART

12 Oct 2012

Improving metadata assists discoverability.

As part of our commitment to support librarians, the Royal Society of Chemistry is delighted to endorse Phase I recommendations of the KBART (Knowledge Bases And Related Tools) Working Group, a joint NISO/UKSG initiative that is exploring data problems within the OpenURL supply chain.

KBART’s Phase I Recommended Practice, published in January 2010, contains practical recommendations for the timely exchange of accurate metadata between content providers and knowledge base developers.

More information is available via the NISO and UKSG Press Release. Our endorsement is thanks to the hard work of Juliet Palmer, Customer Service Executive – Technical Support, in producing and updating the KBART file which is available on the RSC’s Librarians’ Portal.

For more information contact technicalsupport@rsc.org.

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RSC Publishing Catalogue 2013

28 Sep 2012

There’s a lot of information about a lot of products out there, but not always enough time to view it all.

We feel that the 2013 RSC Publishing Catalogue is a vital document as it shows the depth and detail of what we do for the chemical sciences.

You can view the catalogue online, but, you may just want the highlights for 2013, so here they are:

Two NEW journals – Biomaterials Science (P.5) and Toxicology Research (P.21) – both available for free to all existing subscribers or registered users
More journal content – CrystEngComm (48 issues, previously 24), Faraday Discussions (8 issues, previously 6), Polymer Chemistry (24 issues, previously 12), RSC Advances (48 issues, previously 24), Analytical Methods (24 issues, previously 12)
Great savings on collections – RSC Gold (P.18) now includes Catalysis Science & Technology (p.5) and RSC Advances (P.20).
More flexibility on eBooks – annual collections now available for all years from 2008-2013 (P.19)
Plus various options for our archive – whether an outright purchase or an annual lease for 1841-2007, or just a top-up for 2005-2007 (P.18)

If you would like a hard copy of the catalogue, please contact marketing@rsc.org.

If you have a sales enquiry, please contact your RSC Account Manager or your local Subscription Agent. Alternatively you can e-mail sales@rsc.org.

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Did we meet you at the ACS in Philadelphia?

13 Sep 2012

It was great to meet some of you at the RSC booth in Philadelphia during the ACS National Meeting and Exposition. Whether you attended the meeting or not, we’d like to make sure that you don’t miss out on our special offers this autumn:

FREE e-membership and a subscription to Chemistry World

Join RSC e-membership FREE using promo code ACSFALL and receive a 12-month digital subscription to Chemistry World. This truly international monthly magazine for chemical science, with a readership of over 49,000, allows you to:

discover the latest developments in research and science policy
explore business news analysis, features and opinion columns
browse the latest job advertisements and careers section

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

FREE RSC Publishing Personal Account

Delegates getting involved with our Visual Elements puzzle at the ACS

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 26 million records. Why not try it out and see what you can discover?

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You can also find out more about our books and journals through our eTOC alerts and newsletters. If you have any questions or comments, please contact us, we’d be happy to hear from you. We look forward to seeing you at the next meeting!

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Gold for Gold – First Open Access credit used by University of Hull

11 Sep 2012

It’s nice to be first. Gold Image

Recently we announced Gold for Gold, an innovative initiative rewarding UK RSC Gold customers with credits to publish a select number of papers in RSC journals via Open Science, the RSC’s Gold Open Access option. This ensures academics at RSC Gold subscribing institutions can further increase the visibility of their quality research.

We are now delighted to announce another first. This time for the University of Hull, who will be the opening beneficiary from this project.

CXCR4 chemokine receptor antagonists: nickel(II) complexes of configurationally restricted macrocycles (Steve Archibald et al, Dalton Transactions 2012 Vol:41, Issue 31) is the first article to be published as part of Gold for Gold and is available to all online.

More information on Gold for Gold is available on our website. If you have any further questions on the procedure, or are an interested customer from outside the UK , please contact goldforgold@rsc.org.

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RSC Publishing Price List 2013

17 Aug 2012

The Royal Society of Chemistry would like to announce its 2013 Price List for journals, databases, magazines, eBooks and various collections.

Growth in content, higher impact factors, increased international influence and global visibility are at the cornerstone of everything we do.

And here’s just some of the proof.In the past year the number of articles in RSC journals has risen by 53% to more than 20,000, whilst 41% of our journals have achieved an Impact Factor of *5 and above (that’s more than Elsevier, Wiley and the ACS). We can boast authors from more than 90 countries worldwide, and our content has been downloaded by virtually every country on the planet.

Please see below for a summary of all the key changes for 2013, reflected in the new Price List.

New for 2013

All 2013 subscription renewals will be managed in-house by the RSC (this was previously managed by PCS)
There will be two new journals for 2013, Biomaterials Science and Toxicology Research – both available for free to all existing subscribers or registered users
There will be a significant increase in content for the following journals: CrystEngComm (48 issues for 2013, previously 24); Faraday Discussions (8 issues for 2013, previously 6); Polymer Chemistry (24 issues for 2013, previously 12); RSC Advances (48 issues for 2013, previously 24)
Our collections continue to represent great savings, and RSC Gold now includes Catalysis Science & Technology and RSC Advances. We are discontinuing the Package K Collection
We are offering more flexibility on our eBooks, with annual collections now available for all years from 2008-2013. We are discontinuing the Tutorial Chemistry Texts and Paperback Subject Collection
The Journal of Materials Chemistry brand will continue in the form of three journals, but will still be available as a full collection. Each journal will focus on an area of materials chemistry, divided by the nature of the intended applications of the materials studied: energy and sustainability; biology and medicine; and optical and electronic devices.
In response to feedback from the journal’s community, the Journal of Environmental Monitoring is changing its name to Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts (ESPI) to better reflect the content and the interests of the journal’s readers
All databases from 2013 will be online only (this applies to individual subscriptions and collections) and we are discontinuing the Chromatography Abstracts database

If you would like to discuss your own subscription, creating a bespoke package or upgrading to RSC Gold, please contact us.

*Impact Factor data based on 2011 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters, June 2012)

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