Successful learned society publishing —The Royal Society of Chemistry strategy

摘要

Since its founding in 1841 the Royal Society of Chemistry has published the newest and best chemical research. Our first President, Thomas Graham, read a paper submitted by Justus von Liebig at the first meeting of what was then called the Chemical Society of London, which was recorded and published in the Transactions of the Chemical Society. More than 170 years later we are still publishing the newest and best research —but on a scale those original chemists could never have reached, at a pace they would have found incredible, and using technologies they could not even imagine. Our purpose—to advance excellence in the chemical sciences—was set out in a Royal Charter granted to us by Queen Victoria in 1848. One of our objectives written into that charter is to 'foster and encourage the growth and application of such science by the dissemination of chemical knowledge'. We pursue this objective by providing journals, databases and books that serve the needs of our members and the wider chemistry community.