Successfully launched in early 2007 the RSC eBook Collection is already a global success.

Good news travels fast and the first usage statistics show wide interest, especially in the US and Australia where the RSC eBook Collection is proving to be a valuable resource amongst the scientific community. It's no surprise when you are familiar with the functionality: access and download ability to over 700 new and existing books published by the RSC, use of search engines, full access to tables of contents and to one free sample chapter in each eBook. Popular titles such as Nucleic Acids in Chemistry and Biology and Fundamental Toxicology are being conveniently read and downloaded in the comfort of peoples' offices, laboratories and homes. Users are accessing prestigious titles in books series such as RSC Bimolecular Sciences, RSC Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and Tutorial Chemistry Texts.

Content in 2007 included more than 45 new books and will grow year on year with an exciting portfolio for 2008 already confirmed. For future years watch the collection expand as new books are published. The way people use information is changing, and RSC Publishing has risen to the challenge by adapting our delivery services to meet the needs of a new generation of scientists. We have adapted the valued content contributed from one generation into a delivery system tailored for the next generation, and are proud to claim the RSC eBook Collection as a definitive point of reference for anyone working in the chemical sciences. So don't miss out - visit the collection today! 

This month sees three RSC journals focus on key research areas: 

Molecular BioSystems, Issue 10

Hagan Bayley's special issue on 'Understanding and Manipulating Channels and Pores'. The investigation of channels and pores is a delightfully varied field requiring a wide range of knowledge and experimental tools taken from a multiplicity of scientific disciplines.

Natural Product Reports, Issue 5

A themed issue, guest edited by Alison Smith and Finian Leeper from the University of Cambridge, UK, brings together six reviews which take different aspects of research into the chemistry, biochemistry and biology of vitamins and cofactors and show how, for each aspect, there are common themes for many of the pathways.

Journal of Materials Chemistry, Issue 38

Guest edited by Cameron Alexander, University of Nottingham, UK, this issue focuses on the increasing demands for better healthcare products and biomedical materials. 

On September 7th, over 200 senior industrialists and academics gathered in Beijing to mark the launch of Chemistry World: China magazine, and to hear leading chemists and policymakers stress the importance of developing science links between China and the UK.

The launch follows months of collaboration between the RSC and two of the key membership organisations promoting the interests of the chemical sciences in China: the Chinese Chemical Society (CCS) and the Chemical Industry & Engineering Society of China (CIESC).

Jim Feast, RSC president, led the launch event and introduced the accompanying inaugural Chemistry World: China lectures.

Richard Pike, RSC's chief executive, acknowledged that 'We face the same global issues and opportunities and we need our best minds working together across international boundaries to show leadership in matters such as improving health, materials, energy, the environment, and better use of global resources.'

He noted that, with the launch of Chemistry World: China, the science community at large now had an authoritative and influential magazine that would report on significant Chinese research in the context of such global issues, which in turn would help to focus future strategic debate between the RSC, CIESC and CCS.