(11 July 2024) Mr. Albert G. Horvath, ACS CEO, and Dr. Helen Pain, RSC CEO, signed a memorandum of understanding in Dublin, fostering US-UK cooperation in chemistry. The agreement, aligning with UN SDGs, aims to enhance scientific exchange, support early career chemists, and promote public awareness of chemistry. Find out more here.
(18 Jan 2022) Elsevier announced a pilot project in which the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley will syndicate selected content to the ScienceDirect platform. The articles will appear in search and browse listings. In the pilot, more than 70,000 articles in 35 journals in organic chemistry and transportation…
Experiment aims to shift publishing models toward open access (14 June 2018) The MIT Libraries and the Royal Society of Chemistry have signed a groundbreaking license agreement that incorporates elements of a traditional subscription purchase and open access to scholarly articles. The experimental two-year agreement is seen as an important step on the path toward…
(19 September 2013) David James, Executive Director of Strategic Innovation at the Royal Society of Chemistry, said: “We are delighted to announce that we have completed the acquisition of MarinLit. “Over the last 25 years John Blunt, Murray Munro and their colleagues at the University of Canterbury have developed the leading marine natural product (MNP)…
(11 September 2013) The Royal Society of Chemistry has integrated a new system for monitoring article-level metrics into a selection of its scientific journals. The metrics are provided by London-based start-up Altmetric. The new service extracts online mentions of scholarly articles from social media, newspapers, blogs and other sources and collates them into reports that…
(23 May 2013) A unique not-for-profit society partnership signed today between the Chinese Chemical Society (CCS) and the RSC will launch a collection of journals that combine high quality content and fast publication with trusted values of society publishing. Dr Robert Parker, RSC chief executive, said after today’s signing in China: “These journals, known as…