New resource: The ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication

We are pleased to announce a 12-month subscription to the ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication, formerly known as the ACS Style Guide.

The ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication is produced by the American Chemical Society and is an updated edition of the ACS Style Guide, compiled by editors with varied scholarly communications experience. It also contains new chapters on preprints, Open Access, machine-readable data, and more.

The Guide is broken down into the following sections:

• Scientific Communication
• Scientific Journals
• Data in the Google Era
• Scientific Style Conventions
• Editorial Style Conventions
• Inclusivity

Content is regularly updated on the platform to meet a fast-changing publishing landscape. As noted in the website’s About section, new topics will also be added to:

Expand scientific communication beyond the scientific journal, including patents, communicating science to the public, and communicating science to decision-makers;

Expand data conventions beyond chemistry; and

Broaden our reach beyond ethics in scientific publications to ethics in scientific research.

This will be a valuable tool for students, researchers, educators and librarians looking for guidance on how best to present their research. Although the focus is on Chemistry, this will also be applicable to other chemistry-related disciplines.

A record is now available in iDiscover. Please do contact the ebooks team at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk if you have any questions.