Royal Society of Chemistry

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Royal Society of Chemistry

• RSC Journals and Databases
• CALIS 2nd Imported Database User Training Week,
  Dalian
• 11 May 2004

Rui Zhou Representative Royal Society of
Chemistry China
Dr Mike Hannant Key Account Manager Royal Society
of Chemistry Cambridge, UK
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Agenda

• The Royal Society of Chemistry
• RSC Publications facts and figures
• RSC Journals licensed through CALIS
• Access via RSC server
• RSC Journals Archive (1841-1996)

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Royal Society of Chemistry

• Learned and Professional Society
• Founded in 1841
• Objectives
• Advancement of the science of chemistry and its
  applications
• Maintenance of high standards of competence and
  integrity among practising chemists
• Dissemination of information

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Membership

• Members 45,000 members
• - 36,000 British Isles
• - 9,000 International
• Including 300 in China
• Employees 260
• Sites
• Cambridge
• London

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Royal Society of Chemistry

• Education
• Parliamentary Affairs
• Scientific Affairs
• Conferences
• Professional and Membership Affairs
• Library
• Publishing

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Publishing Products and Services

• Journals
• Reviews
• Current-awareness serials
• Databases
• Books
• Wallcharts
• Journal Archive
• E-only products and services

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RSC Primary Journals

• Submissions
• Over 13500 papers received in 2003
• Submissions increasing each year
• 80 of papers from outside the UK

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Chinese Submissions
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RSC Primary Journals

• Reviewing
• 6000 Active referees worldwide
• High standards maintained
• Rejection rate gt50
• gt70 for some journals

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Speed of publication

• Around the world in 80 days with RSC journals

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Agreement with CALIS
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Participation

• Institution must purchase at least 3 RSC journals
  at the full price and
• Maintain those subscriptions during the present
  agreement (to Dec 2005).
• Other print subscriptions can be purchased at a
  deeply discounted rate.

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Present CALIS agreement

• 14 Primary Journals (1997 - to date)
• 6 Review Journals (1997 to date)
• 6 Current awareness databases (all available
  content)

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Core Journals Primary

• The Analyst
• Chemical Communications
• Dalton Transactions
• Faraday Discussions
• Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry
• Journal of Materials Chemistry
• New Journal of Chemistry
• Organic Biomolecular Chemistry
• Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Formerly Perkin 1 and 2
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Core Journals Reviews

• Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry,
  Sections A, B C
• Chemical Society Reviews
• Issues in Environmental Science Technology
• Natural Product Reports

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Newer Journals

• Green Chemistry (1999)
• Journal of Environmental Monitoring (1999)
• Lab on a Chip (2001)
• Photochemical Photobiological Sciences (2002)

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Electronic-only journals
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Databases/current awareness

• Analytical Abstracts (1980 to date)
• Catalysts Catalysed Reactions (2002 to date)
• Chemical Hazards in Industry (1981 to date)
• Laboratory Hazards Bulletin (1981 to date)
• Methods in Organic Synthesis (2000 to date)
• Natural Product Updated (2000 to date)

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Access via RSC server
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Online Access

• Articles available in HTML and PDF
• Graphical Abstracts available
• Searching by title/author/journal
• Electronic Supplementary Information available
  and free
• Free email alerts (www.rsc.org/ej_alert)

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Reference linking

• RSC journals
• CrossRef
• CAS (links to free abstracts)
• Document delivery through RSC LIC
• Coming soon..
• OpenURL linking
• Links to other doc del suppliers

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RSC Journals Archive (1841-1996)
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Journal Archive

• All RSC Journal material 1841 - 1996
• 220,000 articles
• 1.2 million pages
• Complete - 200 gigabytes of electronic material

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Journal Archive

• Home page for each journal
• Text content fully indexed and searchable
• Contents lists for volume/issue
• All front matter, back matter, adverts, etc.
  scanned
• PDF pages
• XML headers
• XML abstracts 1965 onwards
• References linked 1990 onwards

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Digitisation challenges
Loose-leaf unpaginated table pullouts
Small fonts
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Digitisation challenges Spinning discs
Observations on the circular polarisation of
light by transmission through fluidsH. B.
Leeson. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Chemical
Society, 1843-1845, II, 26 (referenced on p39)
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Summary

• CALIS members now can have access to the high
  quality RSC journals and databases online via the
  CALIS online system or direct from RSC
• Negotiations covering CALIS member access to the
  RSC Journals Archive are underway

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Thanks

• Thank you to CALIS for inviting me..
• Thanks to Rui Zhou for translating..
• Thank you for listening!
• hannantm_at_rsc.org
• User training Library Room 213,2000 2100
• Any questions?

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