Sci­en­tific pub­lisher RSC Pub­lish­ing, UK, the pub­lish­ing arm of the Royal Soci­ety of Chem­istry, has announced the online pub­li­ca­tion of the first issue of a new inter­dis­ci­pli­nary jour­nal — Met­al­lomics: Inte­grated bio­metal sci­ence. The jour­nal will appeal to chem­i­cal sci­en­tists, bio-scientists and envi­ron­men­tal sci­en­tists from across acad­e­mia, indus­try and government.

While Met­al­lomics will pub­lish 6 issues in 2009, it will increase its pub­lish­ing fre­quency to 12 issues in 2010. Met­al­lomics issue 1 con­tains 3 crit­i­cal reviews and 8 pri­mary research arti­cles. In a land­mark new paper, Hiromu Saku­rai and col­leagues in Japan describe how a drug based on a chem­i­cal found in gar­lic may be a poten­tial new can­di­date for treat­ing both type 1 and type 2 dia­betes, while Jen­nifer A. Meyer and Dana M. Spence review the role of met­als in diabetes.

Met­al­lomics comes just one week after RSC Pub­lish­ing launched Inte­gra­tive Biol­ogy, a new jour­nal cov­er­ing the quan­ti­ta­tive bio­sciences. The jour­nal also pub­lished its first issue online. The cur­rent issues of both jour­nals will be freely avail­able to all web users through­out 2009 and 2010. Insti­tu­tional online access to all 2009/2010 con­tent is also free fol­low­ing a sim­ple reg­is­tra­tion process.

Wholly owned by the Royal Soci­ety of Chem­istry, RSC Pub­lish­ing pub­lishes a wide range of jour­nals, mag­a­zines, data­bases and books. It claims to be one of the largest pub­lish­ers of chem­i­cal sci­ence infor­ma­tion.
 

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter Jan. 16th.