2008 is a big year for RSC Publishing as four titles from its successful journal portfolio celebrate their tenth year of publication. CrystEngComm, Green Chemistry, Journal of Environmental Monitoring (JEM), and Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) have all made huge advances in their first decade. 

PCCP boasts the highest ISI immediacy index of any general physical chemistry journal and CrystEngComm, with an impact factor of 3.729, is the journal in which to publish crystal research. JEM is packed full of cutting-edge work on environmental processes and impacts and, with an impact factor of 4.192, Green Chemistry is the most highly cited journal in its field.

A number of celebratory activities are planned this year to mark the anniversaries including receptions, sponsored lectures, poster prizes and specially commissioned articles. Look out for specially selected reviews representing the many areas of Green Chemistry and JEM sponsored lectures at Airmon 2008 (Albert Gilmutdinov) and DIOXIN 2008 (Kevin Jones). PCCP and CrystEngComm will also be maintaining a high profile at key conferences across their fields, including sponsoring ten poster prizes.

For further information on these and other anniversary events visit the website or speak to us at one of the many conferences RSC Publishing staff will be attending throughout 2008. Watch out for celebrations at the Spring ACS meeting in New Orleans in April.

2007 witnessed the launch of the RSC eBook Collection, an innovative online product for scientists across the globe. A further highlight was Elegant Solutions by Philip Ball being awarded the 2007 Dingle Prize for the best recent book to communicate the history of science, technology and or medicine to a wide audience of non-specialists. As we begin 2008 RSC Publishing is confident that our exciting 2008 book list will achieve further success reinforcing our position at the forefront of international chemistry research publishing

Looking forward to the year ahead, RSC Books plans to continue providing a first class online publishing service and is aiming to achieve simultaneous eBook and print publication. Our eBook project saw 44 new eBooks go live in 2007 with a further 52 eBooks forecast to go live during 2008. Expect to see groundbreaking titles from our exclusive RSC Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, RSC Biomolecular Sciences series and the new RSC Green Chemistry and RSC Energy Series join the eBook Collection during 2008. 

This month sees the publication of an exciting theme issue of Molecular BioSystems on the subject of metabolomic analysis of microorganisms. The issue is introduced by Hirotada Mori and Tadhg Begley of the Molecular BioSystems editorial board and features a good mix of review and primary research material. The investigation of cellular metabolic pathway networks is a remarkably varied field requiring a wide range of knowledge and theoretical and experimental tools taken from a diversity of scientific disciplines. Approaches involving time-of-flight mass spectrometry, TOCSY NMR, informatics and computational strategies are described along with the modelling and reconstruction of metabolic networks. A review of flux analysis, dynamic changes in metabolite profiles, new techniques to identify extracellular components and dynamic changes in gene regulation are all to be found in this issue. Enjoy!