RSC Publishing is pleased to announce its plans to offer increased publishing choices for its journal authors. From October 2006, RSC Open Science will offer authors the option of paying a fee in exchange for making their accepted research paper openly available to all, via the web. 

RSC Open Science goes one step further than similar services provided by other chemical science publishers - all article types, not just primary research papers, published in RSC journals are eligible for inclusion in this scheme. This ensures that the RSC continues to support all authors at every stage of their research programme.

RSC Open Science will only be available to authors whose papers have been accepted for publication, following the normal rigorous peer-review procedures. This will guarantee that the processes remain entirely separate and that the RSC's scientific and editorial standards are upheld. Authors who have published their work in RSC journals will also be able to retrospectively apply for their work to be included in the scheme. 

Fees for RSC Open Science in 2007 are dependent on the article type published: 

Communications £1000 

Primary Paper £1600 

Review £2500 

A 15% discount will be applied to fees for authors who are RSC members, or are a member of a society which owns or co-owns the journal in which they are publishing, and to those whose institution subscribes to RSC journal packages A or B. 

For further information, please visit: www.rsc.org/openscience 

The RSC's collection of nano-related publications continues to get bigger. The latest breakthroughs and technologies are brought to you via monographs from the RSC Nanoscience and Nanotechnology series and from Reviews, Papers and Themed Issues of the RSC's acclaimed journals. You can, for example, find out about DNA-based nano-architectures in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, anisotropic nanomaterials in Journal of Materials Chemistry and nanoassemblies in Chem Soc Rev. 

But it's not just researchers that the nano- programme caters for. students can refer to market-leading textbooks in the field. The recently published Nanoscopic Materials: Size-Dependent Phenomena, written by Emil Roduner, focuses on the physical principles of nanoscience, and is the perfect complement to Geoff Ozin's Nanochemistry: A Chemical Approach to Nanomaterials. This text has received impressive reviews and has already become one of the RSC's bestselling book titles. 

This wealth of nano material can now be found in one convenient webpage, which will be regularly updated with the latest research and books from the RSC. 

See for yourself at: www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/nanoscience/