American Chemical Society partners with leading Societies to support ChemRxiv™

"The American Chemical Society (ACS) today announced its partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry and the German Chemical Society (GDCh) to support the financial and strategic development of ChemRxiv, the premier preprint server for the global chemistry community.
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Authors working across all fields of chemistry are able to post their findings to the server ahead of formal peer review and publication. The service is free of charge, features a streamlined portal for direct and easy submission, and supports a wide variety of file formats.
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More:

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2018/march/acs-partners-with-leading-societies-to-support-chemrxiv.html

Chemistry World (Royal Society of Chemistry) & Scientific American announce content sharing

"...selected cutting edge chemistry content from Chemistry World will appear on the Scientific American website."
http://www.rsc.org/aboutus/news/pressreleases/2014/chemistry-world-scientific-american.asp

Soft Matter (RSC Journal) Announcement

There have been some pagination issues, which the journal is correcting.

More info at: http://blogs.rsc.org/sm/2012/07/24/important-information-regarding-issues-24-30-of-soft-matter/

Access to free RSC content

Starting January 5, RSC will open up some of their content to the public. For information on exactly what content, see:
http://blogs.rsc.org/rscpublishing/2011/12/19/freeaccessupdates

RSC links its publications to ChemSpider using Utopia Documents

An explanatory video and sample document is at the bottom of this page:
http://blogs.rsc.org/technical/2011/06/21/utopia-documents-highlights-rsc-publishings-semantic-chemistry

Note that these features are available in 2008-2010 articles (for now) and that RSC will be retiring the terms "RSC Prospect" and "Project Prospect".

RSC acquires ChemSpider

From CHMINF-L, May 11/09

"ChemSpider is a free access service providing a structure centric community for chemists. Providing access to millions of chemical structures and integration to a multitude of other online services ChemSpider is the richest single source of structure-based chemistry information."

It also hosts an open access journal (currently in its second issue; published articles are freely available; not sure if there are author charges):
http://www.chemspider.com/journal

Full press release at:
http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/
2009/ChemSpider.asp

Project Prospect from the Royal Society of Chemistry

<The RSC just launched this new feature for papers published from Feb 1/07 onwards. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it applies to all papers (not sure why), but it looks pretty neat, and I can see how it might come in handy.

See it in action:
What you'll need to do is find an abstract that has an "HTML Article (Prospect View)" link. (Prospect View is the key phrase here.) HTML articles with Prospect View have a "toolbox" that is a combination of navigator, glossary and "highlighter".

The "highlighter" function shows/hides IUPAC Gold book terms, ontology terms and compounds in the article. Click on any of those terms to get the respective Gold book definition, ontology definition, and for compounds, synonyms, SMILES and InChI codes.

It's worth a look, and more and more articles will be processed this way, from the sounds of it. The full press release is below...


RSC Publishing, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, is pleased to announce a new initiative for its journals. From February 2007 electronic RSC journal papers will be enhanced so that their data can be read, indexed and intelligently searched by machine, a first step towards the "semantic web". Readers will be able to click on named compounds and scientific concepts in an electronic journal article to download structures, understand topics, or link through to electronic databases; compounds and ontology terms will be published as RSS feeds enabling automated discovery of relevant research.

The initiative, coined 'Project Prospect', is the first of its scope from a primary research publisher. Developed together with UK academics based at the Unilever Centre of Molecular Informatics and the Computing Laboratory at Cambridge University, the Project uses InChIs (IUPAC's International Chemical Identifier for compounds); OBO ontology terms (Open Biomedical Ontologies: a hierarchical classification of biomedical terms) such as the Gene Ontology (GO) and the related Sequence Ontology (SO); terms from the IUPAC Gold Book; and CML (Chemical Markup Language: a means to describe molecular information in a structured form).

This is a completely free service for authors and readers of RSC journals. The enhanced articles have an at a glance HTML view with additional features accessed by a tool box. Downloadable compound structures and printer friendly versions will be available via this new service

'Project Prospect demonstrates our commitment to invest in innovative technologies to provide our authors and readers with the best publishing service available', said the RSC's Acting Managing Director, Robert Parker

Midori Harris, GO's editor from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Hinxton, UK, welcomes the developments: 'We're delighted by the RSC's decision to use GO and SO terms to annotate scientific papers they publish. It's an exciting application of ontologies that will help researchers search the ever-growing body of scientific literature more quickly and effectively. We hope to see more publishers following the RSC's example in the future.'

The RSC intends to develop the Project over the coming months and years to increase the amount of structured science in their research articles.

To find out more about the project please contact me at projectprospect@rsc.org or visit the project website at http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/
ProjectProspect/index.asp

With best wishes,
Richard KiddManager, Editorial Production Systems

From the CHMINF-L list, Feb 1/07