ChemRxiv is a free online submission, distribution, and archival service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas.
ChemRxiv is now available in a fully functioning Beta version for use and feedback by researchers. Find out more from this ACS press release: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2017/august/chemrxiv-beta-open-for-submissions-and-powered-by-figshare.html?hootPostID=c5c5e00bed4e6b0db448b1ba9bc18551.
ChemRxiv itself can be found here.
Do you know about or already use the National Chemical Database Service (NCDS)?
It is an EPSRC-funded service provided by the Royal Society of Chemistry to all students and other members of UK academic institutions. It brings together tools and resources for UK researchers in chemistry and related fields.
All web-based services are freely accessible from any UK academic network. These include:
Find more information about these resources here.
Help to demonstrate the scientific impact of the NCDS
The NCDS needs your help:
The National Chemical Database Service is supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council on the basis that it meets a community need: access to specialist databases that enable research in chemistry and related fields. As part of EPSRC’s routine review of mid-range facility provision, we are preparing an application (called a Statement of Need) to justify continued support of the NCDS after 2017. While we will collate the application on behalf of our Advisory Board, it represents the views and needs of the UK scientific community, so your input is vital to its success. You can help us ensure that all of UK academia retains access to the NCDS resources in the following ways:
- Complete our questionnaire (5–10 minutes)
- Contribute some details about how you use the NCDS and how it helps your research. It needn’t take a lot of your time – just a few lines could help us demonstrate the impact of the NCDS
- Spread the word! Talk to your colleagues or share on social media
Please see the post on the Chemical Database Service Blog here.
The third of the 19 Gold for Gold vouchers that the Royal Society of Chemistry has given to the University of Cambridge for 2015 has been used to make the following article immediately open access:
Continuous flow Buchwald–Hartwig amination of a pharmaceutical intermediate
Polina Yaseneva, Paul Hodgson, Jacek Zakrzewski, Sebastian Falß, Rebecca E. Meadows and Alexei A. Lapkin
React. Chem. Eng., 2016, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C5RE00048C
To find out more about the Gold for Gold initiative, please see a previous blog post here: https://cambridgechemlib.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/new-rsc-gold-for-gold-vouchers-available-for-2015/.
There are still 16 vouchers left for 2015!
If you or at least one of the authors on an RSC paper are an academic member of the University of Cambridge, and there are no funds available for you to pay the APC to make your paper immediately open access, then you may be eligible for a Gold for Gold voucher! Please see the above blog post for information on how to apply.
The University, as a Gold subscriber to Royal Society of Chemistry journals, has free temporary access to the following online journals:
RSC Mobile provides readers with access to search University subscribed RSC journals content from the RSC Publishing Platform via the University’s wireless network.
Download the app while you’re connected to a University wireless network (UniOfCam or Eduroam) and access the most relevant scientific research via Latest Articles or Search options and save articles for reading offline.
RSC Mobile includes:
Find out more here!
The second of the 19 Gold for Gold vouchers that the Royal Society of Chemistry has given to the University of Cambridge for 2015 has been used to make the following article immediately open access:
Supramolecular Polymer Networks Based on Cucurbit[8]uril Host-Guest Interactions as Aqueous Photo-Rheological Fluids
Cindy Soo Yun Tan, Jesus del Barrio, Ji Liu and Prof. Oren Scherman
Polymer Chemistry, 2015, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C5PY01115A
To find out more about the Gold for Gold initiative, please see a previous blog post here: https://cambridgechemlib.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/new-rsc-gold-for-gold-vouchers-available-for-2015/.
There are still 17 vouchers left for 2015!
If you or at least one of the authors on an RSC paper are an academic member of the University of Cambridge, and there are no funds available for you to pay the APC to make your paper immediately open access, then you may be eligible for a Gold for Gold voucher! Please see the above blog post for information on how to apply.
For the last two months the National Chemical Database Service has been trialling a new free resource: the ADME-Tox predictive features of ACD/I-Lab.
All UK academics can try them out now for free through ACD/I-Lab at the NCDS website.
The Royal Society of Chemistry receives funding from the EPSRC to host the National Chemical Database Service. Based on community suggestions and needs, it licenses various resources and databases to make them freely available to all UK academics. The features they are now trialling include industry-leading algorithms for predicting ADME properties such as bioavailability and absorption, as well as toxicity properties such as LD50.
The RSC’s trial period will expire at the end of July, so they’ll soon be making a decision about whether to pay to license ACD/Labs’s ADME-Tox features on a permanent basis. It relies on feedback from researchers to guide their decisions, so if you find that access to ADME-Tox predictive tools is useful for your research, please let them know to help them understand the value of this resource to the UK academic community.
The first of the 19 Gold for Gold vouchers that the Royal Society of Chemistry has given to the University of Cambridge for 2015 has been used to make the following article immediately open access:
Simple fluorinated moiety insertion on AB 16-23 peptide for stain-free TEM imaging
Silvia Sonzini, Samuel T. Jones, Zarah Walsh and Oren A. Scherman
Analyst, 2015, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C4AN02278E
To find out more about the Gold for Gold initiative, please see a previous blog post here: https://cambridgechemlib.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/new-rsc-gold-for-gold-vouchers-available-for-2015/.
The Royal Society of Chemistry has provided 19 vouchers for 2015 which cover the Article Processing Charge (APC) for the Gold route to open access. These vouchers can be used for RSC papers accepted for publication in 2014, and are valid until the end of 2015.
Vouchers will be allocated by the Chemistry Librarian on a first-come-first-served basis, subject to confirmation by the applicant that no other funding is available, e.g. from the University’s Open Access fund (authors should check before applying for a voucher at https://www.openaccess.cam.ac.uk/) or another source. At least one of the authors should be a current member of academic staff of the University.
There is a procedure that authors should follow to request and obtain the vouchers, which is outlined on the Chemistry Library website here: http://www-library.ch.cam.ac.uk/open_access/gold_for_gold.html.
Papers made open access through the Gold for Gold scheme will be listed on the Chemistry Library website and publicised on this blog.
The remaining Gold for Gold vouchers that the Royal Society of Chemistry has given to the University of Cambridge have been used to make the following articles (accepted in 2014) immediately open access:
Improving the mechanical stability of zirconium-based metal–organic frameworks by incorporation of acidic modulators, Ben Van de Voorde, Ivo Stassen, Bart Bueken, Frederik Vermoortele, Dirk De Vos, Rob Ameloot, Jin-Chong Tan and Thomas D. Bennett.
J. Mater. Chem. A, Paper, 2015, 3, 1737-1742. DOI: 10.1039/C4TA06396A
Mechanical properties of zeolitic metal–organic frameworks: mechanically flexible topologies and stabilization against structural collapse
T. D. Bennett, J. Sotelo, Jin-Chong Tan and S. A. Moggach
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE02145B (Communication) CrystEngComm, 2015, 17, 286-289
Pathway-based Bayesian inference of drug–disease interactions
Naruemon Pratanwanicha and Pietro Lió
Mol. BioSyst., 2014, 10, 1538-1548, DOI: 10.1039/C4MB00014E
Black silicon: fabrication methods, properties and solar energy applications
Xiaogang Liu, Paul R. Coxon, Marius Peters, Bram Hoex, Jacqueline M. Cole and Derek J. Frayc
Energy Environ. Sci., 2014, 7, 3223-3263, DOI: 10.1039/C4EE01152J
Highly regioselective lithiation of pyridines bearing an oxetane unit by n-butyllithium
Guy Rouquet, David C. Blakemore and Steven V. Ley</br>
Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 8908-8911, DOI: 10.1039/C4CC03766A
Synthesis, biological evaluation and in silico and in vitro mode-of-action analysis of novel dihydropyrimidones targeting PPAR-γ
Hanumantharayappa Bharathkumar, Shardul Paricharak, K. R. Dinesh, Kodappully Sivaraman Siveen, Julian E. Fuchs, Shobith Rangappa, C. D. Mohan, Nima Mohandas, Alan Prem Kumar, Gautam Sethi, Andreas Bender, Basappa and K. S. Rangappa
RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 45143-45146, DOI: 10.1039/C4RA08713E
Science and technology roadmap for graphene, related two-dimensional crystals, and hybrid systems
Andrea C. Ferrari, et al.
Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 4598-4810, DOI: 10.1039/C4NR01600A
Monitoring sessile droplet evaporation on a micromechanical device
A. Prasad, A. T.-H. Lin, V. R. Rao and A. A. Seshia
Analyst, 2014, 139, 5538-5546, DOI: 10.1039/C4AN01389A
Introductory Lecture: Mechanochemistry, a versatile synthesis strategy for new materials
William Jones and Mark D. Eddleston
Faraday Discuss., 2014, 170, 9-34, DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00162A
Direct synthesis of the Janus-head ligand (MePy)3Sn–Sn(MePy)3 using an unusual pyridyl-transfer reaction (MePy = 6-methyl-2-pyridyl)
Raúl García-Rodríguez and Dominic S. Wright
Dalton Trans., 2014, 43, 14529-14532, DOI: 10.1039/C4DT02216E
Sonochemically-induced spectral shift as a probe of green fluorescent protein release from nano capsules
Ulyana Shimanovich, Anna Munder, Nuno G. Azoia, Artur Cavaco-Paulo, Arie Gruzman, Tuomas P. J. Knowles and Aharon Gedanken
RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 10303-10309, DOI: 10.1039/C3RA47915C
More vouchers have been allocated to the University for papers accepted in 2015. Watch this space for further information!
To find out more about the Gold for Gold initiative, please see a previous blog post here: https://cambridgechemlib.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/gold-for-gold-is-back/.
The Royal Society of Chemistry is responsible for providing the National Chemical Database Service for the benefit of the UK physical sciences research community. The NCDS provides free access to a set of resources and databases for anyone studying or working at a UK academic institution.
The RSC relies on feedback from the UK academic community to make sure the NCDS meets as many needs as possible. Based on your feedback it can consider which resources and databases it provides, and what user support and training can best help researchers get the most benefit out of the service.
As part of its funding agreement with the EPSRC, it must also provide evidence that the NCDS is of benefit to the UK research community in order to continue providing this service.
The RSC would therefore greatly appreciate it if you could take 10-15 minutes to complete a survey to make sure it is providing the best service possible:
Have you been seeing ‘donuts’ everywhere? 
Not this kind of donut – I unfortunately can’t legitimately use an Altmetric donut graphic here – but you may well have seen the multi-coloured circles (‘donuts’) created by Altmetric appearing on journal websites, on citation databases such as Web of Science, and on researchers’ websites. If you don’t already know what altmetrics and the donuts are here is a brief guide.
Altmetrics are basically alternative metrics to the impact factor, and measure the impact of researchers’ publications beyond citations. This kind of impact is becoming increasingly important for researchers to demonstrate. In fact there is currently a government review (Independent review of the role of metrics in research assessment) taking place that is evaluating to what extent, if any, to include metrics in the next REF.
Altmetric.com
The company Altmetric for example has servers that watch social media sites, newspapers, and many other sources for mentions of scholarly articles and bring them together to compile article level metrics. They calculate an Altmetric ‘score’ and put this number in the centre of the donut. The colours reflect the mix of sources mentioning that score e.g. blue for Twitter, yellow for blogs, red for mainstream media sources etc. Altmetric does this on behalf of publishers, institutions, and researchers. Hence the donuts’ appearance on journal websites, databases and researchers’ websites.
Ways you can use the donut
For researchers, Altmetric provides a free bookmarklet, and free embeddable badges.
Once installed, the bookmarklet allows you to navigate to the desired journal article and hit “Altmetric it” in your browser’s bookmarks bar, and you’ll see the Altmetric donut, score, and metrics.
You can enhance your CV and publication lists on your personal website by adding Altmetric badges, including the donut. You just need the article’s identifier (e.g., a DOI, arXiv ID, etc.) and some simple lines of code. Clicking on the badge will take visitors to your website to a landing page hosted by Altmetric where they can see a score breakdown, the context and Twitter demographics for that article.
You can also use altmetrics to track articles and to receive email alerts when they receive new attention so you can keep up to date with who is mentioning your article and where.
Symplectic
Altmetric donuts are now displayed beside the citation counts on Symplectic (via Altmetric for Institutions).
Metrics, Kudos and the RSC
Altmetric donuts already appear on RSC journal websites.
You may also be interested in Kudos. According to their website:
Kudos is a free service for researchers through which you can explain, enrich, and share links to your publications to help increase readership and citations.
Kudos operates across publishers. Kudos can be used for any publication for which a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) has been registered with CrossRef and so articles, books, and book chapters can be uploaded.
The RSC is currently working with Kudos; find out more on this Chemistry Library blog post: https://cambridgechemlib.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/kudos-increase-the-impact-of-your-publications/.
You can of course sign up to Kudos now for free, independently, to try it out; it might be useful to you as a one-stop shop for managing the buzz around your articles.
Can you explain the importance of chemistry to human health in just 1 minute?
If you are up to the challenge, you could win £500 in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s ‘Take 1 … minute for chemistry in health’ video competition.
For more details on how to enter, visit http://rsc.li/take-1-videos.
What is Kudos?
According to their website:
Kudos is a free service for researchers through which you can explain, enrich, and share links to your publications to help increase readership and citations.
How does it work?
Again, according to their website:
Researchers register to use Kudos and are then led through various steps that prompt them to explain their publications; add context and enrich them with links to resources such as images and data; and share information about their publications via social networks and email. The Kudos platform distributes the additional author-added content and links to aid discoverability of publications. Kudos also enables researchers to track the effect of their actions against a wide range of metrics.
Kudos operates across publisher platforms and subject disciplines and enables you to monitor and manage the attention all your publications (articles, books, and book chapters) receive in one place. You can add publications retrospectively and indeed it may help to revive interest in your older publications.
Do I have to pay?
No, it is free for researchers to use; only publishers, funders and institutions pay a fee for various tools and information.
How do I find out more?
Visit the Kudos website: https://www.growkudos.com/.
The RSC is partnering with Kudos. See the press release http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2013/Kudos-RSC-launch.asp, and watch the video of researchers’ experience of using Kudos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K06nqKEhls0&sns=tw.
Another of the 18 Gold for Gold vouchers that the Royal Society of Chemistry has given to the University of Cambridge has been used to make the following article immediately open access:
Polypharmacology modelling using proteochemometrics (PCM): recent methodological developments, applications to target families, and future prospects, by Isidro Cortés-Ciriano, Qurrat Ul Ain, Vigneshwari Subramanian, Eelke B. Lenselink, Oscar Méndez-Lucio, Adriaan P. IJzerman, Gerd Wohlfahrt, Peteris Prusis, Thérèse E. Malliavin, Gerard J. P. van Westen, and Andreas Bender. Med. Chem. Commun., 2015, Advance Article, DOI:10.1039/C4MD00216D.
To find out more about the Gold for Gold initiative, please see a previous blog post here: https://cambridgechemlib.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/gold-for-gold-is-back/.
Another of the 18 Gold for Gold vouchers that the Royal Society of Chemistry has given to the University of Cambridge has been used to make the following article immediately open access:
Modelling ligand selectivity of serine proteases using integrative proteochemometric approaches improves model performance and allows the multi-target dependent interpretation of features, Qurrat U. Ain, Oscar Méndez-Lucio, Isidro Cortés Ciriano, Thérèse Malliavin, Gerard J. P. van Westen and Andreas Bender. Integr. Biol., 2014, 6, 1023-1033. Paper. DOI:10.1039/C4IB00175C, http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2014/ib/c4ib00175c
To find out more about the Gold for Gold initiative, please see a previous blog post here: https://cambridgechemlib.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/gold-for-gold-is-back/.
Register for a free webinar to learn about the Merck Index Online which will take place on 23rd September, at 11:30am (UK time) .
According to the RSC the webinar will focus on:
- the comparative quality of The Merck Index Online against other providers;
- the breadth and depth of subject scope;
- opportunities and advantages of using the Merck Index Online ;
- how The Merck Index Online can benefit study; and
- the speed, ease and simplicity of using The Merck Index Online.
The Merck Index is the only authoritative, reliable online source of information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals.
And it is available exclusively from the Royal Society of Chemistry at https://www.rsc.org/merck-index.
Register here.
The RSC’s flagship journal, Chemical Science, will move to Gold Open Access from the first issue in January 2015. All content published from that date will be free to every reader.
Plus, the RSC will waive all Article Processing Charges (APCs) for at least two years. So it will be free for authors too.
Find out why the RSC is doing this here.
Another of the 18 Gold for Gold vouchers that the Royal Society of Chemistry has given to the University of Cambridge has been used to make the following article immediately open access:
Electro-Mechanical Actuator with Muscle Memory, Alexandre Khaldi, James A. Elliott and Stoyan Smoukov. J. Mater. Chem. C, 2014, Accepted Manuscript DOI:10.1039/C4TC00904E. http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/tc/c4tc00904e#!divAbstract
To find out more about the Gold for Gold initiative, please see a previous blog post here: https://cambridgechemlib.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/gold-for-gold-is-back/.
Another of the 18 Gold for Gold vouchers that the Royal Society of Chemistry has given to the University of Cambridge has been used to make the following article immediately open access:
The derivative discontinuity of the exchange–correlation functional, Paula Mori-Sánchez and Aron J. Cohen. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2014. Advance Article. DOI:10.1039/C4CP01170H, Perspective. http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/cp/c4cp01170h#!divAbstract
To find out more about the Gold for Gold initiative, please see a previous blog post here: https://cambridgechemlib.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/gold-for-gold-is-back/.
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