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Librarian and information specialist newsletter from the Royal Society of Chemistry Notes 2015 is shaping up to be an eventful and rewarding year. The first few months of this year have been very busy for us as Chemical Science moved to Gold Open Access in January, becoming the world’s first high-quality Gold Open Access chemistry journal. It joins our new journal Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology – which is free to access until the end of 2016. Inside this issue you can find even more journals that you can access for free – and instructions on how to do it. 44 of the world’s top 50 universities for Chemistry* now have access to all of our current journals content. They are joined by Nazarbayev University, who we want to welcome as our newest (and only) RSC Gold member from Kazakhstan. Looking back over our other 2014 achievements and results has revealed many other interesting facts and statistics; in this issue we have picked out the ones that we feel impact you most. It was great to see everyone at the ALIA, Australia in February where Dan Dyer and Natalie Blanchard hosted a competition to win a trip to the UK and view our Historical Collection. Congratulations go to Erin Gallant from the Australian National University who won this unique prize. We’re looking forward to seeing Erin in London soon! We’re going to be at a lot more exhibitions and conferences over the next few months and there are sure to be even more competitions. We’ve listed all the events we’re going to in this issue so you know exactly where you can meet and catch up with us. If you can’t wait and want to speak to someone sooner, email us at [email protected] anytime. We hope to see you very soon! Best wishes Rebecca Church and Sarah Sharpe Royal Society of Chemistry *QS World University Rankings® Issue 1 | 2015
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Librarian and information specialist newsletter from the Royal Society of Chemistry
Notes2015 is shaping up to be an eventful and rewarding year. The first few months of this year have been very busy for us as Chemical Science moved to Gold Open Access in January, becoming the world’s first high-quality Gold Open Access chemistry journal. It joins our new journal Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology – which is free to access until the end of 2016. Inside this issue you can find even more journals that you can access for free – and instructions on how to do it.
44 of the world’s top 50 universities for Chemistry* now have access to all of our current journals content. They are joined by Nazarbayev University, who we want to welcome as our newest (and only) RSC Gold member from Kazakhstan. Looking back over our other 2014 achievements and results has revealed many other interesting facts and statistics; in this issue we have picked out the ones that we feel impact you most.
It was great to see everyone at the ALIA, Australia in February where Dan Dyer and Natalie Blanchard hosted a competition to win a trip to the UK and view our Historical Collection. Congratulations go to Erin Gallant from the Australian National University who won this unique prize. We’re looking forward to seeing Erin in London soon!
We’re going to be at a lot more exhibitions and conferences over the next few months and there are sure to be even more competitions. We’ve listed all the events we’re going to in this issue so you know exactly where you can meet and catch up with us. If you can’t wait and want to speak to someone sooner, email us at [email protected] anytime.
We hope to see you very soon!
Best wishes
Rebecca Church and Sarah SharpeRoyal Society of Chemistry
*QS World University Rankings®
Issue 1 | 2015
One article every secondWhile analysing our results from last year, we discovered an interesting fact about our articles that we think you might appreciate: more than one article was downloaded… every second of every day. That’s more than 31.5 million article downloads!
It might not be that surprising when you know that we published 36,251 articles in 2014 alone – a 33% increase over 2013.
We’ll be at…Exhibitions in Central and Eastern Europe
Bulgarian Information Consortium 8 May: Sofia, Bulgaria
14th Special and University Libraries Conference13–16 May: Opatija, Croatia
INFORUM 26–27 May: Prague, Czech Republic
ACHEMA 2015 15–19 June: Frankfurt, Germany
Exhibitions in Canada
98th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition 13–17 June: Ottawa
Exhibitions in the Middle East
Gulf SLA 17–19 March: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
ANKOS Annual Meeting 9–11 April: Antalya, Turkey
INFO 2015 11 May: Jerusalem, Israel 12–13 May: Tel Aviv, Israel
Exhibitions in Northern Europe
DEFF Online 26–27 March: Copenhagen, Denmark
CRIStin Spring Conference 20–21 April: Oslo, Norway
emtacl15 20–22 April: Trondheim, Norway
2014: Gold for Gold’s year Gold for Gold lets your institution publish accepted Royal Society of Chemistry papers via our Gold Open Access option. That means you get access to our premium collection of 41 international journals, databases and magazines and your researchers get even more visibility for their valuable research, raising your institution’s profile. It’s win-win.
And 2014 was a stellar year for the Gold for Gold initiative. Just look at the stats...
• More than twice as many Gold for Gold OA vouchers were used compared with 2013.
• 304 institutions in 36 countries made a total of 2296 Gold for Gold applications.
• 3174 Gold for Gold vouchers were used.
• 304: the record number of applications made in one month.
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Our top three, most downloaded articles in 2014 were:
1. Microfluidic lab-on-a-chip platforms: requirements, characteristics and applications, Chemical Society Reviews (28,176 downloads)
2. Recent developments in microfluidics-based chemotaxis studies, Lab on a Chip (21,717 downloads)
3. Simultaneous tetralin HDA and dibenzothiophene HDS reactions on NiMo bulk sulphide catalysts obtained from mixed oxides, Catalysis Science and Technology (17,301 downloads)
Our global reach and relevance was also confirmed by the more than 113,000 authors from 85 different countries who published with us last year.
We currently publish six of the top 20 journals in the multidisciplinary chemistry category. This is because 33% of our journals received an Impact Factor above 5, and 83% were above 3*.
*2013 Journal Citation Reports
China 34%
USA 11%
India 8%
UK 6%
Germany 4%
Japan 4%
South Korea 4%
France 3%
Spain 3%
Italy 2%
Other 21%
Published papers by country
Get more information about how you can access our Gold for Gold initiative by contacting [email protected]
Beyond publishingTurning innovative ideas into commercial reality
The annual Emerging Technologies Competition supports small companies and researchers by giving them the opportunity to showcase new ideas and receive support from industry experts.
Multiple prizes are awarded in each of our three streams: Healthcare, Energy & Sustainability and Materials. But the most attractive and unique of our prizes is the personalised package of support provided by our partner companies – large multinationals with the expertise, access and resources to develop these new ideas and bring them to market. As far as we’re aware, no other competition offers such a prize.
Take Aqdot– our 2013 winner – their encapsulation method ‘wraps up’ other compounds in a protective coat and releases them in response to a specific set of conditions. Aqdot’s idea was to use their technology to extend the shelf-life of household detergents which separate out and decay over time.
Since winning the competition, Aqdot has been working with Procter & Gamble and GlaxoSmithKline – who heard their final pitch. They have also received £1.4 million in follow-on funding.
Find out how other previous winners have benefitted at http://www.rsc.org/competitions/emerging-tech/
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MaterialsHorizons
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COMMUNICATIONSeth R. Marder, Joseph W. Perry et al.Polymethine materials with solid-state third-order optical susceptibilities suitable for all-optical signal-processing applications
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Join us at...Exhibitions in UK and Ireland
UKSG Annual Conference 2015 30 March–1 April: Glasgow, Scotland
London Book Fair 14–16 April: London, England
LIBER Annual Conference 24–26 June: London, England
Exhibitions in USA
PITTCON 8–12 March: New Orleans
Computers in Libraries 27–29 April: Washington
BookExpo America (BEA) 27–29 May: New York
SLA Annual Conference and INFO-EXPO 14–16 June: Boston
ALA Annual Conference 25–30 June: San Francisco
We’re looking forward to seeing you there.
Why not arrange a meeting by emailing [email protected] or contacting your account manager?
We want to hear from youWe want to develop our Tutorial Chemistry Texts – a series of around 20 books made up of short, single-topic or modular texts concentrating on the fundamental areas of chemistry taught in undergraduate science courses.
We need your help to make sure that these books integrate easily into your existing systems – while remaining affordable and offering the greatest educational value.
If you’re interested in getting involved and can spare a few minutes for a quick discussion by phone or email, get in touch at [email protected]
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RSC Catalysis Series
Metal Nanoparticles for CatalysisAdvances and Applications
Edited by Franklin (Feng) Tao
New Developments in Mass Spectrometry
Quantitative Proteomics
Edited by Claire E Eyers and Simon J. Gaskell
RSC Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Nanodiamond
Edited by Oliver A. Williams
Great eBook content with Pick and ChooseIf you don’t already have our whole collection of books you may be interested in our Pick and Choose model. If a smaller selection of key texts would better suit your library’s particular subject area or budget, you have the freedom and flexibility to design your own collection.
Pick and Choose lets you decide what titles you really need as you build up a customised set from our entire range of eBooks.
Need inspiration? Take a look at some of our recently published titles…
Metal Nanoparticles for Catalysis Franklin (Feng) Tao (ed.)
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All three of these titles are only £1455 with Pick and Choose.
Chocolate and HealthChemistry, Nutrition and Therapy
Edited by Philip K Wilson and W Jeffrey Hurst
Worldwide Trends in Green Chemistry Education
Edited by Vânia Zuin and Liliana Mammino
Food & Nutritional Components in Focus
BetaineChemistry, Analysis, Function and E� ects
Edited by Victor R Preedy
Monographs in Supramolecular Chemistry
Synthetic Receptors for BiomoleculesDesign Principles and Applications
Edited by Bradley D Smith
eBooks by numbersWith over 1,200 eBooks (that’s roughly 25,000 chapters) spanning 46 years of research, our eBook collection is the definitive reference for anyone working in the chemical sciences.
84% of books in our current collection are professional reference titles – and that’s before we’ve added our 90 new titles for 2015.
And all table of contents first chapters – every single one of them – are available to access for free at www.rsc.org
Look out for these four titles in 2015:
Chocolate and Health Philip Wilson and W Jeffrey Hurst (eds.)
A comprehensive overview of the chemistry, nutrition and bioavailability of cacao and chocolate.
Publication date: May 2015
Worldwide Trends in Green Chemistry Education Vânia Zuin and Liliana Mammino (eds.)
Green issues – taught from the underlying principles of all chemistry courses rather than in isolation.
Publication date: June 2015
Betaine: Chemistry, Analysis, Function and Effects Victor Preedy (ed.)
A fascinating insight for anyone with an interest in the effects of betaine on health and diet – specifically nutritional and food scientists, health professionals and researchers.
Publication date: May 2015
Synthetic Receptors for Biomolecules Bradley Smith (ed.)
An accessible overview of the most effective synthetic receptors within the context of specific applications.
Publication date: June 2015
Nanodiamond Oliver A Williams (ed.)
The first comprehensive book on the subject, this is perfect for those new to and active in nanodiamond research as well as anyone interested in its applications.
Quantitative Proteomics Claire E Eyers and Simon Gaskell (eds.)
Essential reading for analytical and biological mass spectrometrists working in proteomics research, or undertaking fundamental or clinical-based investigations with an interest in understanding protein dynamics and/or biomarker assessment.
