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Information Today August 20, 2015 |
Science Journal Gains Support From the Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry agreed to collaborate with Royal Society Publishing on its Royal Society Open Science open access journal. |
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 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 11, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses The percentage of chemistry papers published by the big five publishers is a significant outlier in the sciences. |
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. |
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 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. |
Information Today November 15, 2012 |
ORCID Registry Engineered by Semantico Goes Live ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) recently launched its Registry, where researchers can differentiate themselves by creating a unique personal identifier. |
Information Today September 25, 2014 |
Kudos Incorporates ORCID Identifiers The ORCID research identifier will be integrated into the Kudos platform so authors can identify and claim publications and register for an ORCID through the Kudos site. |
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 November 26, 2012 |
Thomson Reuters Incorporates ORCID Identifiers The system provides a central registry of researchers across disciplines and geographic boundaries, connecting researchers to their research. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 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. |
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. |
Geotimes December 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Open Access Wide Open Open-access publishing has been heralded both as the savior of scientific literature and the death of publishing, but after less than a decade of the practice, its impact remains uncertain. |
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. |
Chemistry World April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
Chemistry World June 19, 2012 |
Finch report backs open access for UK This would allow more people free access to research publications than ever before. However, the report warns that it could cost UK higher education as much as an extra 50 -- 60 million pounds a year. |
Information Today December 3, 2015 |
Altmetric Adds ORCID Functionality Altmetric added an ORCID filter to the Altmetric Explorer family of apps, including Explorer for publishers and for libraries, as well as Altmetric for Institutions. |
Chemistry World May 22, 2006 Philip Ball |
Back in Time for CW Reporter The author dresses in Restoration garb to hand over Robert Hooke's long-lost Royal Society notes, from 1661 to 1682, to the society's current president, Lord Rees of Ludlow. |
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 |
Chemistry World March 6, 2012 Simon Perks |
Special Treatment for Scientists Under Immigration Rules Scientists traveling to work in the UK will be exempt from rules on settling in the country. |
Information Today March 22, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Sci-Tech Not-For-Profit Publishers Commit to Limited Open Access The DC Principles are a response to charges that current publisher practices impede access to published scientific research. |
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. |
Information Today March 22, 2004 Paula J. Hane |
U.K. Parliamentary Committee Holds Hearings on Scientific Publishing On March 1 and 8, the U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee held the first two days of hearings as part of its inquiry into the pricing and availability of scientific publications and possible government support for open access publishing. |
Chemistry World April 23, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Invest in research or be left behind, UK academies warn The UK's four national academies have called on the government to increase investment in research over the next decade or risk being overtaken by international competitors. |
Chemistry World July 18, 2012 Maria Burke |
EU and UK bitten by the open access bug The European commission plans to make all the research findings funded by its 80 billion euro 2014 -- 2020 research program, Horizon 2020, accessible to all. |
Information Today April 2004 Richard Poynder |
The Inevitable and the Optimal What measures are being taken in the U.K. government, the publishing industry, and academic institutions to ensure that researchers, teachers, and students have access to the publications they need? |
Information Today March 25, 2014 |
DOAJ Updates Application Form The Directory of Open Access Journals form now includes as many quality indicators as possible as well as extensive information about the journals that publishers need to supply. |
Information Today February 13, 2014 |
Academic Research Available Free at U.K. Libraries The Publishers Licensing Society announced the start of a 2-year pilot project, Access to Research, which brings more than 1.5 million academic research articles and conference proceedings to all public libraries in the U.K. |
Information Today January 2005 Richard Poynder |
Interview with Vitek Tracz: Essential for Science Convinced that all research must ultimately be freely available on the Web, the chairman of the London-based Current Science Group has become a powerful advocate for open access. |
Chemistry World September 5, 2008 Fred Campbell |
Rushed Reforms Failing UK School Science UK government reforms of school education have done little to increase the number of children with maths or science (STEM) qualifications, according to the UK's national academy of sciences. |
Information Today February 2007 Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
Searcher January 2002 Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
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 |
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. |
Chemistry World January 31, 2013 Mico Tatalovic |
Citation cartel uncovered in Bosnian journals A Serbian study claims to have uncovered a 'citation cartel' in which two Bosnian journals listed by Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports are practicing an alarming level of misconduct with substantial involvement of large groups of authors from Serbia. |
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. |
Information Today September 5, 2000 Barbara Quint |
CrossRef, CAS, DataStar Announce Links to Scholarly Publications The network of links to and from scholarly publications continues to grow rapidly... |
D-Lib May 2000 Richard K. Johnson |
A Question of Access SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing |
Chemistry World March 9, 2010 Anna Lewcock |
Fund science or risk economic downfall Leading researchers and former science ministers have today warned the UK government it risks 'throwing away' years of investment unless the UK keeps pace with science funding levels in other countries. |
Information Today December 8, 2003 Barbara Quint |
HighWire Press Provides Open Packaging to Online Journal Subscribers Initiated by a group of scholarly society publishers participating in HighWire Press, the librarian-led journal aggregator, a new pricing/subscription model allows librarians to create their own packages using tiered pricing tied to library type. |
Chemistry World March 9, 2015 Maria Burke |
Royal Society to address gender imbalance The Royal Society is to take steps to encourage more women to access its career development awards and will train its selection panel members to guard against gender bias. |
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. |
Chemistry World August 23, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Half of all papers from 2011 are open access Open access publishing is growing far faster than previously thought, according to a new report prepared for the European commission. The sample included material from online databases, such as Scopus and PubMed, as well as the websites of publishers, institutions and researchers. |
Chemistry World November 2011 Jack Stilgoe |
The Science we Want, the Science we Need The UK government has lost the ability to ensure that the research that it really needs gets done. |