Royal Society of Chemistry

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Royal Society of Chemistry

• Librarians meeting
• Burlington House
• Mike Hannant
• Key Account Manager
• 5 November 2003

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RSC - Science and Society

• RSC what it is
• RSC what it does
• RSC Publishing
• RSC Journals Archive

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RSC What is it?

• Founded in 1841
• Learned society
• Professional body
• Publisher
• Charity

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Membership

• Members 45,000 members
• - 36,000 British Isles
• - 9,000 International
• Employees 260

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Object of RSC

• The Object for which the Society is constituted
  is the
• general advancement of chemical science and its
• application and for that purpose
• (i) to foster and encourage the growth and
  application of such science by the dissemination
  of chemical knowledge
• (ii) to establish, uphold and advance the
  standards of qualification, competence and
  conduct of those who practise chemistry as a
  profession
• (iii) to serve the public interest by acting in
  an advisory, consultative or representative
  capacity in matters relating to the science and
  practice of chemistry and
• (iv) to advance the aims and objectives of
  members of the Society so far as they relate to
  the advancement of the science or practice of
  chemistry.
• (Royal Charter - Article 3)

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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

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RSC - Education

• Students
• Careers Information
• Local sections meetings
• Not all chemists wear white coats posters
• Chemistry at Work exhibitions
• Teachers
• Education in Chemistry magazine
• Up-to-date info directly related to UK curricula
• Sponsor teachers industrial visits
• Summer schools for teachers

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RSC - Education

• LearnNet (www.chemsoc.org/learnnet)
• Web resources for students and teachers
• Collaborations
• RSC/IOP/Channel 4
• Secondary Online Science fun and games for
  11-14 yr olds

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RSC Parliamentary Affairs

• Communication with Parliament
• Parliamentary Link scheme/day
• Select Committee for Science Technology
  submissions
• Scottish Parliament
• Scottish Science Advisory Council

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RSC Scientific Affairs

• RSC Divisions/Forums/Interest groups
• Analytical Division
• Chemical Biology Forum
• Fast Reactions in Solution (interest group)
• Conferences
• National and International
• All areas of chemical and related research

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RSC in the news

• Aim to provide public with topical comment
• Raise public profile of RSC

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Shakespeare's Love PotionMidsummer nights dream
To mark its new production of A Midsummer Night's
Dream, the Royal Shakespeare Company commissioned
scientists to try to recreate the love potion
described in that most popular of the Bard's
comedies.
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A perfect cup of tea
Boffins reveal the recipe for the perfect cuppa..
According to Loughborough University's Dr Andrew
Stapley (who has lectured on tea for three years,
so he should know), if you pour milk into a cup
of boiling hot tea, you risk "denaturing" the
milk proteins and ending up with a stale taste.
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Test of taste for vintage chutney
Scientists are to test a 34-year-old jar of
chutney which had been left gathering dust at the
back of a cupboard to see if it is edible.
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RSC Publishing

• Library Information Centre
• Serials
• current
• archive
• foreign language
• Books
• current
• archive/historical
• Images
• Document delivery

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RSC Publishing

• Books
• 40 - 50 Books each year
• Review publications
• Handbooks
• Chemistry Tutorial Texts
• Monographs
• Various areas inc. Nutrition

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RSC Publishing

• Databases Databanks
• Analytical Abstracts
• Catalysts Catalysed Reactions
• Methods in Organic Synthesis
• Natural Product Updates
• Hazards (Laboratory/Industrial)

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RSC Journals

• 16 Primary Journals
• Including 5 Joint-venture Journals
• Mendeleev Communications
• New Journal of Chemistry
• Photochemical Photobiological Sciences
• Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
• Russian Chemical Reviews
• 5 Review Journals
• Chemistry in Britain
• Chemistry World from Jan 2004

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RSC Journals

• Print
• The Analyst 1876
• J. Chem. Soc. 1878
• Chemical Journals Online 1987
• Adonis CD-ROM 1994
• Internet
• CatchWord 1997
• RSC Server 1998

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Electronic Innovation

• Articles available in HTML and PDF
• Abstracts free to all
• Searching free
• ESI available and free
• Pay-per-view available
• Articles from 1997 2000
• On Jan 1, 2004 2001 articles become free

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Electronic Innovation

• E-Submissions and E-Refereeing
• Virtual Journal in Chemical Biology
• Reference Linking
• Citation tracking

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• RSC Journals Archive
• Project

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RSC Journals Archive

• All RSC Journal material 1841 - 1996.
• 220,000 articles
• 1.2 million pages
• Complete - 200 gigabytes of electronic material
• PDF (TIF and OCR)
• XML Headers
• References 1990 - 1996

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RSC Journals Archive
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Collation and Sending of Printed Material

• Identify Material
• Source Material
• RSC LIC second copies
• Old copies at TGH
• Donations
• GSK, Dartford Brunel
• Individuals
• RSC LIC working copies (less than 10)
• Batch and Box
• Ship to Techbooks India
• 6 batches of material

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Delivery to Web

• PDF pages
• Text content fully indexed and searchable
• Contents lists for volume/issue
• Linking for 1990 reference lists
• All front matter, back matter, adverts, etc.
  scanned
• Home pages for all journals

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Pricing single site

• Outright purchase (customer-hosts) 25,000
• Outright purchase (RSC-hosts) 25,000
• plus annual maintenance fee 500
• Annual lease 1,500
• Outright purchase (over 2 years) 30,000
• Package A subscribers - 10 discount.

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Timescales

• Project Start October 2002
• Selection of Supplier March 2003
• Material Sent to Techbooks June 2003
• Receipt of material from Techbooks April 2003
  to October 2003
• Web Demo Available November 2003
• All data Checked November 2003
• Live January 2004

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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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Further Information

• RSC web site
• www.rsc.org
• Current Status of Project
• www.rsc.org/archive
• RSC Journals
• www.rsc.org/journals
• RSC Books and Databases
• www.rsc.org/books

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