The Royal Society of Chemistry: Advancing Excellence in the Chemical Sciences Dan Dyer Head of Sales

Royal Society of Chemistry Founded in1841 One of the largest organisations for advancing the chemical sciences Professional body with a worldwide network of 49,000 members Internationally acclaimed publishing business Non-for-profit organization

Our publishing activities span books, e-books, journals, databases and magazines Leading international publisher *The name THE MERCK INDEX is owned by Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, N.J., U.S.A., and is licensed to The Royal Society of Chemistry for use in the U.S.A. and Canada.

What is RSC Publishing? Analytical Abstracts Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions Laboratory Hazards Bulletin Natural Product Updates NEW 2015: Synthetic Reaction Updates (Former Methods of Organic Synthesis and Catalysts and Catalysed Reactions in one product now)

Journal Launches Initial New Very new 2009 launches 2010 launches 2011 launches 2012 launches

Databases Recently acquired The EPSRC funded National Chemical Database Service, hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry Coming Soon For the UK

Chemistry World Flagship magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry Podcasts Webinars Social Media: Facebook 341,00 Twitter 269,000 LinkedIn 9,500 Blogs Readers 46,030 in print 221,000 online (Q1 2014)

++ = Free to use  31 million structures  Over 400 different data sources, including:  PubChem, ChEBI  GSK Malarial compounds  Chemical Suppliers Catalogues  Patents  RSC journals  Physical properties, spectra, safety information and much more  Access it anywhere there’s internet

Growth in Content Published articles: 5,754 to 27,237 (373% growth) 22% growth in Impact Factor to average % growth in article downloads to 26M

Why? Sustainability We want to continue and expand what we have been doing since 1841 in supporting the chemical sciences… Maintain and improve the quality whilst expanding into new areas of chemistry and related disciplines

Open Access – threat to Society Publishers? What if the world went OA tomorrow? OA is fast moving, we are in a transition period Individual funding agency mandates - varying policies which can be confusing Publisher experimentation continues Rapid growth of OA journals and institutional repositories RSC wants to work with the community to support them, and be involved in the on-going discussions

RSC policy: “RSC supports Open Access models which seek to ensure that scholarly publishing activities operate in a long-term sustainable way” Maximise availability and accessibility of research Maintain standards and ethics of publishing Provide a quality service Gold OA is the best option – sustainable and provides immediate access Green OA is also supported with our Chemical Sciences Article Repository: Repository/articles/ Repository/articles/

Number of voucher codes received is what the institution pays for RSC Gold divided by £1,600 We recognise researchers are being asked to publish OA, but may not have the funding A reward for all RSC Gold subscribing institutions Institutions get voucher codes to publish Gold OA free of charge > £9Million invested in free Gold OA voucher codes for RSC Gold members "The more that this type of thinking can be seen to permeate throughout the publishing industry, the better." Ron Egginton, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

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