Royal Society of Chemistry: RSC Journals Archive

License Agreed
Country-wide for all academic, research and educational libraries within participating countries.  See the list of countries with free access here

Service Type
Online Journals Archive

Content
Backfile containing all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 to 2004.

About the RSC Archive
The expanded "Super Archive" now contains all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 (the first issue of Memoirs and Proceedings of the Chemical Society) to 2004. The backfile contains approximately 238,000 articles in 1,400,000 pages.

Full Title Listing
A full list of the RSC online journals archive can be found at: http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/DigitalArchive/available.asp
As this is an archive collection, publications are all over one year old.

Subject Strengths 

  • all branches of chemistry including traditional fields (organic, inorganic, analytical chemistry) plus newer developments and cross-disciplinary studies such as natural products and green chemistry 
  • databases in analytical chemistry, catalysts and catalysed reactions, organic synthesis and natural products 
  • specialist reports in: amino acids, peptides and proteins, carbohydrate chemistry. monosaccharides, disaccharides and specific oligosaccharides, catalysis chemical modelling, electron paramagnetic resonance, NMR, organometallic chemistry, organophosphorus chemistry, photochemistry, spectroscopic Properties of inorganic and organometallic compounds 

Service Strengths

  • Almost 1.4 million pages of ground-breaking chemical science in a single archive 
  • Instant access to over 238,000 original articles published between 1841-2004 
  • Rapid location of information via full-text searching 
  • Reference linking in articles published after 1990 
  • Includes top titles such as ChemComm, The Analyst, PCCP, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry and Dalton Transactions 

Registration
Each institution is required to register to use RSC Archive.  If you have not used this resource before you may need to check if your institution is registered and identify the contact person who has your access details. To do this, please go to the INASP registration database and select your country and institution.

Web site for further information
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/DigitalArchive/available.asp - gives a full list of the titles and years available.

Contact for Help/Support at the RSC
ejournals@rsc.org

Information for Librarians

See www.inasp.info/rsc