Books
A comprehensive range of high-quality, internationally respected chemical science titles for scientists, researchers and students.
Our books 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.
The complete books portfolio is made up of over 2,500 titles – that’s more than 30,000 chapters and over 800,000 pages.
Visit the RSC Books website to browse all titles and collections.
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eBooks
All Royal Society of Chemistry eBooks are available for purchase within collections, or individually. Any eBook purchase includes:
- 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
Institutional purchase options
Collections: Visit our collections page to discover curated selections of titles that cover a wide range of topics and disciplines, including the most relevant and up-to-date content.
- Annual collections: Recent specialist and professional reference monographs covering the full range of chemical science research, written by leading academics.
- eTextbook collection: Comprehensive, specialised resources for students and educators at undergraduate and post-graduate level.
- Popular science collection: Engaging, accessible insights into the chemistry shaping the world around us, for non-chemists and chemists alike.
Pick & Choose: Explore our extensive library and select eBooks individually through our books platform.
Evidence-based acquisition (EBA): In some cases, collections can be accessed via an EBA model, allowing users to access a wide range of titles for a year while the library retains only the most suitable content in perpetuity. Contact us with your requirements.
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Print books
Our print books are available to purchase directly through the RSC Books website. Alternatively, print books can be purchased through your preferred library suppliers.
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Get in touch for help and enquiries regarding book purchases or orders.
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Information for booksellers and Advance Book Information (ABI)
Access key resources for booksellers, including information on our distribution partners and print agents, annual and subject catalogues, and ABI. You can also register for our monthly email updates to be notified when new 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.
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 website.
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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