Books
A comprehensive range of high-quality, internationally respected chemical science titles for scientists, researchers and students.
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eBooks
Royal Society of Chemistry eBooks cover the full breadth of the chemical sciences, offering focused, reliable information on topics ranging from nanotechnology and smart materials to drug discovery and toxicology.
Complete portfolio
The complete eBook portfolio is made up of over 2,100 titles – that’s more than 30,000 chapters and over 800,000 pages. Title lists are available on our MARC records page.
With an eBook collection licence, you and your library receive:
- unlimited access and use of content, DRM free
- perpetual ownership
- MARC records and usage reports
- DOI indexing to chapter level
- downloadable chapters in various formats, including PDF, HTML and ePub
Collections
Collections: Discover titles designed for researchers and postgraduates that cover a wide range of topics and disciplines, including the most relevant and up-to-date content. Choose the eTextbook collection for undergraduate or graduate courses, the Popular Science collection for anyone with an interest in chemistry, or subject-based packages to suit specific areas of study.
Pick & Choose: Explore our extensive library and select eBooks individually through our books platform.
Bespoke packages: Work with us to curate an eBook collection tailored to your library’s unique requirements.
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Print books
You can purchase our print books via your preferred library supplier; alternatively, please contact our book sales team.
If you are interested in purchasing our books as eBooks take a look at our eBook collection on this page.
Textbooks
Written by internationally recognised authors, our textbooks provide in-depth, reliable information on a range of chemical science subjects.
Browse our chemistry textbooks
Specialist periodical reports (SPRs)
Researchers at all stages in their careers have been benefiting from this valuable resource for more than four decades. Specialist periodical reports are valuable for keeping apprised of literature and current opinion.
Our contributing authors analyse, evaluate and distil the latest progress in their specialist field, from major new applications to region-specific reports.
When you purchase an SPR, you will also receive free online access to the eBook version for your organisation.
Browse our specialist periodical reports
Professional reference books
Our professional reference books are accessible overviews on developments in the contributor’s respective fields. They specialise in chemistry and provide global coverage of cutting-edge research.
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Get in touch for help and enquiries regarding book sales.
Tel:+44 (0)1223 432496
Catalogues and advanced book information
You can browse our catalogues and register for our monthly email update to be notified when new advance book information (ABI) becomes available.
FAQs
To view the complete content of the eBook Collection a licence is required. To find out more about this please visit the eBooks collections page.
The RSC eBook Collection has been indexed by ChemSpider. Searching for a chemical structure using this service will provide links to our books where available.
The search engine searches the content of books for the number of times that a keyword appears in the text; this means that although the word appears in the title of the book, it does not necessarily appear more frequently within the book relative to other books in the collection. Thus the search engine does not identify it as being of higher relevance.
The data for our latest titles is a work in progress. so we'll be updating the eBook Collection throughout the year. The best way to find out when new information has been added is to register for eBook Collection Alerts.
Citation formats vary depending on the publication you are writing for, but please include the DOI of the chapter you have read – for example, DOI: 10.1039/9781847559968-00114.
Not all of our books are included in the eBook collection, so it may be that the book in question was not included. To double check, you can contact our team.
The majority of books in the eBook collection are available to purchase via our books platform.
There may be a newer edition of the book you are looking for; please search by the book title. Also, a small number of books available in the collection are out of print. Please contact our team for confirmation.
MARC 21 records are available for the 1968–2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 collections to download from this website. If your library is subscribing to the eBook Collection then titles should appear in your institute's library catalogue as an 'online resource' or 'ebook'.
If you are concerned regarding any information you have seen in the eBook collection, please contact us, including the URL of the page where you saw the error.
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