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New Journal: Polymer Chemistry



Polymer Chemistry
On 1 June, RSC Publishing announced that Polymer Chemistry - a new journal encompassing all aspects of synthetic and biological macromolecules, and related emerging areas - will be the latest title to join its journal portfolio.

Launching early in 2010, the journal will provide a showcase for the ongoing efforts driving polymer chemistry, highlighting the creativity of the field and previously inaccessible applications. Monthly issues will contain a full mix of research articles including communications, reviews and full papers. The journal will have a broad scope, covering areas of polymer chemistry of interest to materials scientists and bioscientists, as well as all traditional areas of the field. 

"The new journal will report on the best polymer chemistry from around the globe and will become a high impact factor journal that all polymer chemists will be proud to have on their CV"
- David Haddleton
Editor-in-chief of Polymer Chemistry is David Haddleton of the University of Warwick, UK. In outlining his vision for Polymer Chemistry, he describes how the new journal 'will report on the best polymer chemistry from around the globe and will become a high impact factor journal that all polymer chemists will be proud to have on their CV.'

Polymer Chemistry joins an exclusive group of journals launched by RSC Publishing in the past 12 months. Metallomics and Integrative Biology both published their first issues in January 2009, with new journals Nanoscale and Analytical Methods due to follow later this year.

The current issue of Polymer Chemistry will be freely available to everyone on the website from launch until the end of 2011. Free online institutional access to previous issue content during 2010 and 2011 is also available following a simple registration process. 

Polymer Chemistry

A new peer-reviewed journal encompassing all aspects of synthetic and biological macromolecules, and related emerging areas

Soft Matter

Physics, chemistry and biology of Soft Matter

Community embraces RSC-ChemSpider



RSC-ChemSpider
Hailed by some as 'a scientific "marriage" made in heaven,' news about RSC's recent acquisition of ChemSpider spread fast through the blogosphere and other channels.

ChemSpider, a free online service providing access to almost 21.5 million unique chemical entities sourced from over 200 different data sources and integration to a multitude of other online services, is the richest single source of structure-based chemistry information. Its acquisition reflects RSC's commitment to providing access to premium resources of chemistry data and information. This complements RSC's existing leading role in online chemistry, including award-winning semantic mark-up technology and the release of the InChI resolver, recently launched in partnership with ChemSpider. 

"With the resources, reputation and vision of the RSC to support ChemSpider, our long term goal is to deliver the primary online platform where chemists will resource information and collaborate with a worldwide community of scientists"
- Antony Williams
Antony Williams, the original host of ChemSpider, is excited by the new possibilities. 'What originally started as a hobby project to give back something to the chemistry community has become one of the primary internet resources for chemistry. And this from home built computers in a basement, with no funding and a team of volunteers,' he says. ' With the resources, reputation and vision of the RSC to support ChemSpider, our long term goal is to deliver the primary online platform where chemists will resource information and collaborate with a worldwide community of scientists.'

The ChemSpider website will be re-launched later in the year. 

RSC acquires ChemSpider

ChemSpider acquisition heralds a breakthrough investment for RSC and for the Chemistry Community

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