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Chemistry World July 16, 2014 Patrick Walter |
Royal Society of Chemistry's flagship journal now free to access Chemical Science will be free to access from January 2015, and author fees for publishing in the journal will be suspended until 2017. |
Chemistry World September 14, 2006 Victoria Gill |
Online Access to Centuries of Pioneering Science The Royal Society today launched its complete journals archive in electronic form, making it freely available online for two months. |
Chemistry World June 23, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Open Access, Take it or Leave it The Royal Society, UK, is trialling a hybrid author-pays/reader-pays publishing model. The RS has been a stern critic of open access publishing in the past, and says there is an absence of evidence to support the author-pays model. |
Chemistry World December 7, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Royal Society backs ORCID to identify researchers The UK's Royal Society has announced that from January 2016 it will require all researchers submitting papers to its journals to provide an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID). |
Information Today October 31, 2011 |
Royal Society Guarantees Permanent Free Access to Journal Archive The Royal Society is the world's oldest scientific publisher, with the first edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society appearing in 1665. |
Chemistry World August 22, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Open Access for Chemistry The team that developed BioMed Central, an open access publishing website, has launched a chemistry version called Chemistry Central. |
Information Today December 15, 2015 |
ACS Publishes New OA Journal The American Chemical Society announced ACS Omega, a new peer-reviewed, open access multidisciplinary journal. |
Information Today February 26, 2009 |
Royal Society Journals Launched on HighWire Platform The platform delivers the Royal Society's internationally renowned science journals, including the longest scientific journal archive, dating from 1665. It provides dramatically enhanced Web 2.0 functionality and library-friendly features. |
Chemistry World June 13, 2013 |
Former editor of Chemistry in Britain dies Peter Farago oversaw many changes to Chemistry in Britain and Education in Chemistry both of which were jointly published by the Chemical Society and Royal Institute of Chemistry before the two societies joined to become the Royal Society of Chemistry. |
Chemistry World October 2, 2006 Gill & Sanderson |
RSC to Launch Open Access Hybrid Model In a move to keep RSC publishing competitive, authors of RSC journal papers can now choose to have their research freely available the moment it is published -- for a fee. |
Chemistry World April 11, 2014 |
Former chief executive of Royal Society of Chemistry dies As leader of the Chemical Society, John Ruck Keene oversaw its amalgamation with the Royal Institute of Chemistry, Faraday Society and Society for Analytical Chemistry to become the RSC in 1980. |
Information Today October 29, 2009 |
Royal Society of Chemistry Delivering Ebooks via Ovid The first 46 books going onto the OvidSP scholarly search and discovery platform will cover chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, and related disciplines. |
Information Today November 29, 2012 |
SAGE Acquires Royal Society of Medicine Journals Portfolio Academic publisher SAGE announced an agreement with the Royal Society of Medicine to acquire its journal program. With immediate effect, 28 titles formerly published by RSM Press will be published by SAGE. |
Information Today April 7, 2015 |
ReadCube Indexes Royal Society of Chemistry Archive The Royal Society of Chemistry's collection of ebooks and 39 journals is now discoverable via the ReadCube platform. |
Information Today October 3, 2013 |
Royal Society of Chemistry Acquires MarinLit Database The Royal Society of Chemistry completed its acquisition of MarinLit, a cloud-based marine natural product database designed to help scientists find a starting point for MNP research. |
Information Today April 2003 Robin Peek |
Could Peer Review Be Wrong? Seriously questioning the validity of the peer-review process is like debating the merits of a holy grail. But two scholarly societies are now asking if peer review is in fact such a good thing. |
Information Today January 2, 2014 |
Nature Publishing Group Announces OA Journal Nature Publishing Group agreed to co-publish Human Genome Variation, a peer-reviewed, open access journal, with the Japan Society of Human Genetics. |
Chemistry World March 31, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Scientists raise concern over fast-track peer review scheme Nature Publishing Group's journal Scientific Reports has introduced a trial for a fast-track peer review system, which authors can use if they pay an additional fee. |
Chemistry World July 23, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Former Royal Society of Chemistry president Lord Lewis dies Lord Jack Lewis was known for his inorganic chemistry research, as well as his contributions to science policy in the House of Lords. |
Information Today June 13, 2013 |
SAGE Adds Royal Society of Medicine Journals to Its Collection In November 2012, SAGE Publications announced an agreement with RSM for the transfer of its 28 journals to SAGE, including its 200-year-old flagship publication, the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. |
Chemistry World April 22, 2013 Patrick Walter |
RSC takes top UK business award The Royal Society of Chemistry has received the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise for achieving substantial growth in its overseas scientific publishing business. |
Information Today May 14, 2015 |
NPG Announces Spinal Cord Journal Nature Publishing Group introduced a quarterly, online-only journal, Spinal Cord Series and Cases, in collaboration with the International Spinal Cord Society. |
Information Today December 17, 2012 |
RSC Acquires The Merck Index In buying the rights to the iconic reference book, the RSC gains a globally used reference tool with a 120-year history. |
Chemistry World April 24, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Fast-track peer review trial ends following resignations Nature Publishing Group's journal Scientific Reports has ended a trial that allowed authors to pay for fast-track peer reviews after just one month. |
Information Today November 19, 2015 |
Royal Society of Chemistry Commits to Training African Scientists The Royal Society of Chemistry entered into a new 5-year partnership with GlaxoSmithKline to help African scientists gain analytical skills. |
Information Today November 3, 2011 |
Taylor & Francis Group Opens More Open Access In 2012, it will initiate changes to its open access program. It has also announced a new list of OA publications. |
Information Today June 18, 2015 |
BioMed Central Agrees to Publish Mutation Research Journal BioMed Central partnered with the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society to publish the society's official journal, Genes and Environment. |
Information Today August 15, 2013 |
The American Chemical Society Debuts New Journal ACS Photonics is a new online-only journal. This monthly, interdisciplinary publication focuses on high-impact research in photonics, which the ACS defines as the study of the interactions of light with matter. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 |
eLife Announces Editors, Launches Website The editorial board of eLife, the new journal for life and biomedical science launched with the support of HHMI, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust, announced the names of the more than 150 reviewing editors who will help deliver on the initiative's commitment to change peer review. |
Chemistry World December 17, 2012 Patrick Walter |
RSC acquires rights to Merck Index The Royal Society of Chemistry has acquired the rights to the 'bible' of chemistry, the Merck Index, familiar around the world to medicinal chemists and drug discovery scientists. |
Chemistry World July 4, 2011 Andy Extance |
Funders Unveil 'Elite' Open Access Journal The Wellcome Trust, the Max Planck Society and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute are set to launch an open access research journal that will attempt to compete directly for submissions with Cell, Nature and Science. |
Chemistry World October 3, 2006 Victoria Gill |
UK Dragging Heels on Nanotechnology Disappointing and slow. That is how the UK government's research to improve the understanding of the potential health and environmental impacts of free nanoparticles has been summed up by the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering. |
Chemistry World August 15, 2014 Patrick Walter |
Former Royal Society of Chemistry president dies After retiring from active research, John Mason Ward continued to play an active role in the chemistry community. |
Chemistry World January 17, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Broke RI rejected Royal Society merger The Royal Institution has rejected a bail-out proposal from the Royal Society that would see the two organizations merge, according to a report in the magazine Research Fortnight. |
Chemistry World September 11, 2006 |
Conference Blog From the American Chemical Society's fall conference: Dance your way to an A... Play for today... Welcome to San Francisco... Bio-barcodes indicate cancer protein... etc. |
Information Today January 19, 2012 |
Springer Open Choice Adopts Creative Commons Attribution License In 2004, the hybrid OA option Open Choice was launched at Springer with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Springer's Open Choice option allows authors to publish their articles with OA for the majority of its subscription-based journals. |
Chemistry World October 24, 2006 Victoria Gill |
British Scholarship Scheme to Attract the World's Best Brains The Royal Society has developed an international fellowship scheme that aims to attract the world's best scientists to the UK and give the country a business edge. |
Chemistry World November 2010 |
350 years and counting Martin Rees, president of the Royal Society, on the first 350 years of the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence |
Information Today February 24, 2015 |
NPG Introduces Double-Blind Peer-Review Option Nature Publishing Group announced that in March 2015, authors will be able to opt for double-blind peer review -- wherein both the authors and the reviewers are anonymous. |
Chemistry World December 2007 Dylan Stiles |
Column: Bench Monkey Increased costs make students choose between a chemistry journal subscription and car insurance. |
Chemistry World January 9, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Former Royal Society of Chemistry president dies Anthony Ledwith, former president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, has died aged 81. |
Information Today July 24, 2014 |
SAGE Debuts OA Journal on Big Data SAGE Publications introduced its newest open access, peer-reviewed journal, Big Data & Society. |
Information Today March 10, 2015 |
Thieme's Delhi Division Makes Strides in Neurology Publishing Thieme Publishers Delhi took over the publication of the peer-reviewed, open access Indian Journal of Neurosurgery from Wolters Kluwer Health's Medknow division. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 |
HHMI Teams Up for Open Access Journal HHMI, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust intend to launch an open-access journal for biomedical and life sciences research that breaks the mold set by traditional scientific journals. |
Chemistry World November 17, 2009 Rebecca Trager |
Nobel laureates appeal for open access In an open letter to United States lawmakers, 41 Nobel laureates endorse the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009 for open access publishing |
Chemistry World June 22, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
ACS compress print journals to favor online While changing habits among students and researchers have meant that online resources are increasingly popular, old-fashioned print journals are likely to linger for at least some time yet |
Information Today April 28, 2015 |
Springer Introduces New Data Science and Engineering Journal Springer and the China Computer Federation will publish Data Science and Engineering, a new open access computer science journal. |
Chemistry World February 2007 John O'Reilly |
The Tyranny of Peer Review? All of us involved in the scientific peer review process must avoid being unduly conservative or risk-averse if we are to secure the required balanced research investment portfolio, including an appropriate proportion of high-risk, high-return activities. |
Chemistry World September 1, 2013 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Chemistry - The next generation What does the future hold for the chemists of tomorrow, those clutching new qualifications and those still coming through the ranks in school? Can chemistry attract a complete cross-section of society? |
Chemistry World August 15, 2013 Julia Higgins |
Diversity: leading the way The Royal Society, funded by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, and in parallel with the Royal Academy of Engineering's diversity scheme, has set out a program to address diversity in science. For many of us, the word diversity raises the gender question. |