Antony Williams explains why the Royal Society of Chemistry has acquired chemical information search tool ChemSpider
The InChI Trust is launching this week with the aim of expanding and developing the InChI open-source chemical structure representation algorithm
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters is planned for January
RSC Publishing now provides COUNTER 3 journal usage statistics
The first issue of Nature Chemistry has gone live
The Journal of Cheminformatics has published its first articles
Workflow solution helps synthetic chemists
The Petroleum Abstracts TULSA Database is now available via EBSCO Publishing's EBSCOhost platform
Nature Publishing Group will co-publish Polymer Journal with the Society of Polymer Science, Japan
The Polymer Library is now available on the EBSCOhost platform thanks to a partnership between Smithers Rapra and EBSCO Publishing
Wayne Sime discusses his hopes for the future of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
From bypassing aggregators to the influx of new university presses, the world of library-based publishing is changing fast, reports Rebecca Pool
Vivek Mehra explains how the English language is dominating global communication and changing school structure
Chris Smith
Chris Smith explains why they matter, and how publishers and universities can benefit
Rossana Morriello
Rossana Morriello assesses the ways in which librarians are supporting research in Italy
Nandita Quaderi – editor-in-chief of the Web of Science – champions objectivity, selectivity, and data integrity
This article was jointly written by Andrea Chiarelli (pictured), Juliane Kant and Birgit Schmidt on behalf of Knowledge Exchange. Andrea Chiarelli is a consultant at Research Consulting. Juliane Kant is partner representative for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in Knowledge Exchange. Birgit Schmidt is head of knowledge commons at Göttingen State and University Library.
Active engagement and collaboration are needed to deliver the promise of preprints, writes Andrea Chiarelli
