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Philadelphia free-dom

10 Aug 2012

The Royal Society of Chemistry will be in Philadelphia for the ACS meeting this month – and we’d love to meet you. Visit us at Booth #701 and find out more about our free content and how the RSC is going from strength to strength in its mission to advance the chemical sciences. Some key free events taking place at booth #701 include:

ChemSpider demo – Monday 20th at 11 am

Discover how you can make the most of our free chemical structure database, providing fast search access to over 26 million structures.

Book signing: The Case of the Poisonous Socks – Monday 20th at 2pm

Celebrated author William H Brock will be at the stand with copies of The Case of the Poisonous Socks, which offers 42 light-hearted tales of chemists and their discoveries. The book will be selling at just $15 (less than half its list price) so don’t miss out!

Join us for coffee – Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st from 11 am

Coffee and other drinks are free while stocks last

There are many more RSC and ChemSpider events taking place around the venue, and a full list is included at the bottom of this blog post.

So come along to Booth #701 and:

Find out more about our new Impact Factors and rising stars within RSC journals
Hear the very latest journal news and search the RSC Publishing platform
Browse over 60 new RSC books and take advantage of a special 30% show discount
Try ChemSpider, the multiple award winning, chemical structure-based search engine providing free access to more than 25 million chemical structures
Meet RSC representatives and investigate how you can publish with one of the world’s leading chemical science publishers
Harriet Gould and Emma Favager from our Commercial Sales team will also be on site to speak to you about Chemistry World, webinars, recruitment, digital options, and more.

We look forward to meeting you in Philadelphia!

Sunday 19th	10.50AM – 11.10AM	Putting chemistry into the hands of students – chemistry made mobile using resources from the Royal Society of Chemistry	Room 109B
	4.15PM – 4.40PM	Mining public domain data as a basis for drug repurposing	Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Room 302/303
Monday 20th	11.00AM – 12.00PM	ChemSpider demo	Booth #701
	11.00AM – 3.00PM*	Join us for coffee	Booth #701
	2.00PM – 3.00PM	Book signing: The Case of the Poisonous Socks	Booth #701
	2.05PM – 2.30PM	Feeding and consuming data to support Open Notebook Science via the ChemSpider platform	Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Conference Room 307
	2.30PM – 2.55PM	Approaches for extraction and “digital chromatography” of chemical data – a perspective from the RSC	Hilton Garden Inn Philadelphia, Salon D
		RSC Member Reception (by invitation only)
Tuesday 21st		Sponsorship of Bioconjugate Polymer session (Division of Polymer Chemistry) by RSC journals Chemical Science and ChemComm
	10AM – 12PM	ChemSpider and You: A workshop exploring how ChemSpider can help you find chemical information (Register via conference website)	Workshop Room 2
	11.00AM – 3.00PM*	Join us for coffee	Booth #701
	4.55PM – 5.10PM	ChemSpider compound database as one of the pillars of a semantic web for chemistry	Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Grand Ballroom Salon H
		Young Investigators session dinner co-sponsored by RSC journals Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry and ChemSocRev
Wednesday 22nd		Sponsorship of Bioconjugate Polymer session (Division of Polymer Chemistry) by RSC journals Chemical Science and ChemComm
Thursday 23rd	9.15AM – 9.35AM	Delivering an online service for validating and standardizing chemical structure files using the ChemSpider platform	Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Franklin Hall 6
	9.35AM – 9.55AM	How can the International Chemical Identifier (InChI) be extended to non-trivial chemicals?	Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Franklin Hall 6
	9.55AM – 10.15AM	Serving up and consuming community content for chemists using wikis	Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Franklin Hall 6

While stocks last*

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RSC to in-source journal subscription management for 2013

27 Jul 2012

The Royal Society of Chemistry will in-source its journal subscription management and fulfilment from 2013 volumes, with renewal notices being sent direct from the RSC in August 2012. In addition, all orders for e-books and archive products in 2013 will also be processed directly from the RSC’s Cambridge offices from January 1^st 2013.

Any subscription, e-book or archive product purchaser will still experience the same quality of engagement with the new THINK system. This move brings the RSC even closer to its customers with all service functions now in one place. The RSC would like to take this opportunity to thank PCS for their high level of service and support over the last seven years, in what has proved a very effective relationship.

Until 31st December 2012, pre-2013 orders should continue to be sent to:

RSC Distribution Services
c/o Portland Customer Services
Commerce Way
Colchester
Essex
CO2 8HP
United Kingdom
Email sales@rscdistribution.org
Tel + 44 (0)1206 226050
Fax + 44 (0)1206 226055

Orders for 2013 journal renewals, from now on, should go to:

Orders Department
Royal Society of Chemistry
Thomas Graham House
Science Park
Milton Road
Cambridge, CB4 0WF
UK
E-mail: orders@rsc.org
Tel: +44 (0)1223 432398
Fax: +44 (0)1223 426017

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Open Access update

27 Jul 2012

Open Access has been in the news a lot in recent weeks.

Previously, when visiting our website, you may have found it time-consuming to find everything relating to Open Access at the RSC.

But not any more – to make it easier for you, we now have everything in one place.

What can you expect to find?

the latest RSC Press Releases relating to Open Access
information on current RSC policy
descriptions of the different types of Open Access
details of RSC Open Science, our ‘author pays’ option

and more …

So make sure you have the latest information: visit the website today .

And if you have any questions, please email us.

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RSC launches £1 million Gold for Gold as Open Access transition begins

20 Jul 2012

The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced a groundbreaking £1 million initiative to support British researchers as they begin the transition to Gold Open Access (OA).

‘Gold for Gold’ is an innovative experiment to support the funder led evolution to Gold OA, by recognising institutes that subscribe to RSC Gold, a premium collection of 37 international journals, databases and magazines offering online access to all published material.

UK institutes who are RSC Gold customers will shortly receive credit equal to the subscription paid, enabling their researchers, who are being asked to publish Open Access but often do not yet have funding to pay for it directly, to make their paper available via Open Science, the RSC’s Gold OA option.

2011 Impact Factors

29 Jun 2012

Quality remains at the heart of RSC Publishing, and the fact that we published 4 times as many articles in 2011 as we did in 2006 hasn’t changed that.

Our exceptional standards are reinforced by the recently published 2011 Journal Citation Reports ®.

Individual journal highlights include ChemComm (6.17), Green Chemistry (6.32), Energy & Environmental Science (9.61), Natural Product Reports (9.79) and ChemSocRev (28.76).

And impressive first (partial) Impact Factors were recorded for Chemical Science (7.525) and Polymer Chemistry (5.321).

But how do we measure up when compared with other publishers?

The average impact factor (IF) for a chemistry journal* stands at 2.67: our average IF is 5.46
Of the top 20 journals in the multidisciplinary chemistry category, six are from RSC Publishing. This is more than any other Society publisher
11 of our 27 journals have an IF of 5 and above
Looking at 5-year IFs, we have more titles in the top 20 than any other publisher

So the figures speak for themselves: for guaranteed impact, choose RSC Publishing.

* The 7 Chemistry journal subject-categories as listed in Journal Citation Reports ®: Chemistry, Analytical; Chemistry; Applied; Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear; Chemistry, Medicinal; Chemistry, Multidisciplinary; Chemistry, Organic; Chemistry, Physical.

Full journal listing:

Journal	2011 Impact Factor	5-Year Impact Factor
Analyst	4.23	4.119
Analytical Methods	1.547	1.547
Chemical Communications (ChemComm)	6.169	6.082
Chemical Science	7.525	7.545
Chemical Society Reviews	28.76	28.098
CrystEngComm	3.842	4.023
Dalton Transactions	3.838	3.887
Energy & Environmental Science	9.61	10.813
Faraday Discussions	5.00	4.687
Food & Function ǂ	1.179	1.179
Green Chemistry	6.32	6.761
Integrative Biology	4.509	4.509
JAAS (Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry)	3.22	2.966
Journal of Environmental Monitoring	1.991	2.245
Journal of Materials Chemistry	5.968	5.992
Lab on a Chip	5.67	6.497
MedChemComm ǂ	2.80	2.80
Metallomics	3.902	3.902
Molecular BioSystems	3.534	3.705
Nanoscale	5.914	5.914
Natural Product Reports	9.790	9.671
New Journal of Chemistry	2.605	2.775
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry	3.696	3.652
Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences	2.584	2.688
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP)	3.573	3.931
Polymer Chemistry	5.321	5.326
Soft Matter	4.39	4.998

ǂ Partial IF only, based on five issues or less

The Impact Factor provides an indication of the average number of citations per paper. Produced annually, Impact Factors are calculated by dividing the number of citations in a year, by the number of citeable articles published in the preceding two years.

The 5-Year Impact Factor is the average number of times articles from a journal published in the past five years have been cited in the JCR year. For journals in subjects where citation activity continues to rise through several years, this metric allows more of their total citation activity to be included in a critical performance metric.

Data based on 2011 Journal Citation Reports ®, (Thomson Reuters, 2012).

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RSC at the SLA 2012 Annual Conference

28 Jun 2012

We are delighted to be exhibiting at the SLA 2012 Annual Conference in Chicago (15th -18th July). For those of you that can attend, we look forward to welcoming you at booth 173 to discuss your RSC Publishing needs, showcasing products such as RSC Mobile and our Journals Archive, as well as dealing with any queries you might have.

We also hope to catch up with you at one of our sponsored DCHE breakfasts.

If you would like to arrange an appointment to discuss your requirements, please contact Robert Bergiven.

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Crystal data: important announcement for authors

19 Jun 2012

Do you submit crystallographic data with your articles? If you submit to several different publishers, are you confused by which procedure you should follow?

Then you’ll be glad to hear that at RSC Publishing we are making it easier for you.

From September 1^st, all small molecule single crystal data files (CIFs) must be accompanied by the CCDC reference number(s)* when you submit your article. So, you will need to deposit your crystal data files with, and obtain the relevant reference number from, CCDC before you begin the submission process. Many of you will recognise this as the process used by the majority of publishers.

Your crystal data files will be published alongside your article, as normal. The CCDC reference numbers will still be quoted in the online and print versions of the article.

As this change also aligns us with approved CCDC practices, it means a much more streamlined process for everyone involved.

Full details are available in the Instructions for authors, but if you have any questions, please contact us.

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*The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) is dedicated to the advancement of chemistry and crystallography for the public benefit through providing high-quality information services and software. It is the internationally recognised repository for crystal structures, providing a reference number for each structure deposited.

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Going for Gold with the Royal Society of Chemistry

31 May 2012

Our new premium collection of international journals, databases and magazines offering access to all published material is proving to be very popular within the academic community in the UK. Currently 21 universities, including the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, York, Leeds, Warwick and Imperial College London, subscribe to RSC Gold, with several more interested in this comprehensive package.

In an era of carefully balanced budgets, the success of RSC Gold highlights the value placed by institutions on our content.

If a university has an RSC Gold subscription, staff are entitled to receive a 15% discount on the relevant RSC Open Science fee. Authors are offered the option of paying a fee in exchange for making their accepted communication, research paper or review article openly available to all via the web. Of course, RSC Open Science will only be available to authors once their papers have been accepted for publication, following the normal rigorous peer-review procedures.

For more information, read our Press Release.

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Global Energy Perspectives

14 May 2012

This week Nathan S Lewis, professor of chemistry at Caltech and Editor-in-Chief of Energy and Environmental Science, will be in London to give a special lecture as part of an international event to mark the launch of a new report from the RSC Science Team on solar fuels and artificial photosynthesis.

Hosted at the Chemistry Centre, Burlington House, the event will bring together leading international scientists, policymakers and business-people. In his lecture, Professor Lewis will describe and evaluate the technical, political and economic challenges involved with widespread adoption of renewable energy technologies. Join this unique Chemistry World Webinar, which is being streamed live on Thursday 17 May at 17:25 BST, 1225 EDT, 0925 PST. Read more and register online now.

Plus, find out more about the solar fuels and artificial photosynthesis report: download the full report and infographics now.

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RSC Roadshow heads to Pennsylvania and New York for final stages of the US tour.

08 May 2012

Using RSC apps to access content

Following another fantastic week in Georgia and North Carolina, the RSC Roadshow travels north east for the last stages of the trip to Pennsylvania and New York where we will be visiting:

May 7th – University of Pittsburgh
May 8th – Pennsylvania State University
May 10th – University of Pennsylvania
May 11th – Columbia University

At each University, Books Commissioning Editor Merlin Fox will be on hand to show you RSC’s apps on mobile devices and talk about our newest books. Join him for lunch and debate the reading habits in the 21st Century. And find out more from Managing Editor Richard Kelly about the world of scholarly publishing, with tips on how to get published in high impact journals.

Photos of the tour so far are on our Facebook Page and you can follow us on our journey on Twitter #RSC2012.

Read more about where we’ve been this year – US Roadshow 2012.

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