Months of hard work were rewarded recently as RSC Project Prospect was named as winner of the 2007 ALPSP/Charlesworth Award for Publishing Innovation.

In making the award, which recognises a significantly innovative approach to any aspect of scholarly publication, the judges described RSC Project Prospect as 'the clear winner ... journals incorporate standard metadata within the full text of articles and combine this with an elegant and intuitive on-screen manifestation of the advantages of including this metadata. As a result, sophisticated and effective searching of the literature is greatly improved and the value gained from reading each article is significantly enhanced. It is delightfully simple to use and benefits to authors and readers are immediately obvious.' 

Receiving the award at the ALPSP Annual Dinner in London on September 13th, project manager Richard Kidd declared: 'RSC Publishing is proud to win the 2007 award, which is great recognition for the work our publishing staff and academic partners have put into the development and evolution of Project Prospect.' 

This is the first time that RSC Publishing has received the award for publishing innovation, and staff are understandably delighted.

You told us that you wanted direct access to the latest research. Now, thanks to the latest update of the RSC Journals website, that's exactly what we are delivering.

The contents list for each current issue now appears on the journal's homepage, delivering the content you want to see as soon as you arrive at the site. Graphical abstracts are included as standard, to enable readers to browse content much more conveniently. A more prominent and easy-to-use search box also makes finding published research much more intuitive.

The changes are being introduced following feedback from readers and through extensive user testing; further evidence of the continued investment and development of our online platform. Since the website re-launch in summer 2005, RSC Publishing has introduced RSS feeds, alerting you to new content as and when it is published, and the awardwinning RSC Project Prospect has provided powerful HTML enhancements in journal articles. 

To see for yourself and select your favourite RSC journal, visit

We are pleased to announce that the RSC eBook Collection has been updated to include the first set of 2007 titles.

Since its launch in March 2007 the RSC eBook Collection has enjoyed a lot of attention from libraries across the globe keen to expand their chemical science book collections.

Access to over 740 high quality, digitalised books is combined with powerful search engines to enable scientists to find the information they need, when they need it. Newly published books within the collection can be found by browsing by publication date, or alternatively, subject area and the first chapter of each book is available free for anyone visiting the site. Further new titles and functionality will be added to the RSC eBook Collection at different stages throughout the year.  

To find out more about our ebook services visit