News from Green Chemistry… the year ahead

Changes to the Editorial Board

At the end of 2009 Janet Scott and Alexei Lapkin finished their terms on our Editorial Board. We would like to thank them for their input into the development of the Journal during their time on the Editorial Board. We also welcome Peter Dunn onto the Editorial Board, who will provide a valuable industry perspective to editorial discussions.

2010 marks the launch of our new Advisory Board for the Journal. This very much enlarged Advisory Board brings together green chemists from across the world to help shape the Journal for the future. We welcome all the new members of the Advisory Board and look forward to working with them.

Editorial policy

From 2010 the Editorial Board has agreed to introduce a new Checklist, which authors must complete when submitting to the Journal. The purpose of the Checklist is to remind authors of the factors that need to be considered when submitting to the Journal. In particular, one of the questions asks the authors to consider the potential environmental impact of the solvents that have been used in their paper—are there greener alternatives that could have been used instead? This question has been added to the Checklist after discussions with the ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable, and we would like to thank them for involving the Journal in their discussions. Full details of the new Green Chemistry Checklist can be found on the Journal homepage at www.rsc.org/greenchem

Green Chemistry leads the way

In June 2009, Thomson ISI released the 2008 impact factors and Green Chemistry has an impact factor of 4.542. Over the past 4 years the impact factor for the Journal has increased by nearly 40% confirming Green Chemistry as the leading Journal in the field. We would like to thank our referees and authors for their contributions to achieving this high impact factor.

1^st PACN Green Chemistry Congress

We are very pleased to announce that Green Chemistry will be sponsoring the 1^st Pan Africa Chemistry Network Green Chemistry Congress that will be held in Ethiopia 15–17^th November 2010. This meeting is supported and organised by the RSC, Syngenta and Addis Ababa University. We already have an impressive number of speakers, and we will be adding further speakers over the coming months. To date, the following green chemists have agreed to speak at the Congress:

Paul Anastas, Yale University, USA

Colin Brennan, Syngenta, UK

Bob Crawford, Unilever, UK

Buxing Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Walter Leitner, ITMC-RWTH, Germany

Egid Mubofu, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Vanderlan Bolzani, Sao Paulo State University

Further information about the meeting can be found at www.rsc.org/pacn, and updates will be posted on the Journal homepage.

News from the RSC

New integrated content delivery platform

RSC Publishing is proud to announce the launch of our powerful new content delivery platform that supports multiple content types. Powered by the industry's leading MarkLogic Server, and benefiting from the interactive browsing functionality offered by RSC's enhanced html mark-up technology, the platform delivers exceptionally fast and precise results. Users can now search 165 years of world-class RSC-hosted content including 20 000 book chapters, 300 000 journal articles and 450 000 database records from a single, simple search. Designed around readers' preferences (identified from a detailed and ongoing user-interview process), our user-friendly platform offers faster browsing, intelligent searching, consistent user experience irrespective of content type sought, and simpler more intuitive navigation. We'll be releasing even more exciting functionality later in the year. Please tell us what you think at rscpublishing@rsc.org

ChemSpider

Last year RSC acquired ChemSpider, the richest single source of structure based chemistry information freely available online, with fast searching of over 21.5 million chemical structures. Alongside the powerful database, the ChemSpider development team brings well over 40 years of additional cheminformatics experience to the RSC, including a chemistry centric document mark-up system capable of finding chemical names and converting to chemical structures and linking to online resources. Integration of this technology with RSC's existing award winning enhanced html mark-up technology, RSC Prospect, will lead to substantial enhancements in semantic enrichment for the chemical sciences. Find out more at www.chemspider.com

Continued e-alert success in 2010

2009 saw the launch of the new RSC journal e-alerts; in 2010 we are hoping to see a continued rise in their popularity. The e-alerts are packed with information and links enabling readers to easily view content as soon as it's published, helping them to stay abreast of journal content. The new e-alert registration system has been designed so readers can manage their own subscriptions, tailoring the information they receive and giving them the freedom to unsubscribe at any point. You can find out more information online: www.rsc.org/alerts

New for 2010: the RSC eBook Subject Collections

In response to readers’ needs and a testament to the innovation of RSC Publishing, we are pleased to announce the launch of the new RSC eBook Subject Collections.

The nine new RSC eBook Subject Collections, including a Tutorial Chemistry Texts and Paperbacks package, deliver the high quality content contained in our books into subject specialist packages. With new content being uploaded throughout the year, the new RSC eBook Subject Collections are set to become another key, premier resource. To find out more, please visit www.rsc.org/ebooks

Chemical Science

This new flagship journal will launch in mid-2010, and will publish findings of exceptional significance from across all the chemical sciences. Editor-in-Chief Professor David MacMillan of Princeton leads a dynamic international team of Associate Editors responsible for the scientific development of the journal. Free institutional online access to the entire 2010 and 2011 content of Chemical Science will be automatically provided to all existing customers.

Keep in touch with the latest news at www.rsc.org/chemicalscience

…on a related note

RSC is pleased to announce a significant new global symposia series supporting the launch of the Chemical Science. The International Symposia on Advancing the Chemical Sciences (ISACS) meetings will be held on three continents, over three sequential weeks, focusing on distinct subject areas. More information can be found at: www.rsc.org/isacs

 

We would like to thank you for your continued support of Green Chemistry and wish you a very successful 2010.

 

Martyn Poliakoff

Editorial Board Chair

Walter Leitner

Scientific Editor

Sarah Ruthven

Editor

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