Royal Society Publishing announcement

["Khan, Shania" <shania.khan@royalsociety.org>]

****Apologies for Cross Posting****

Royal Society Publishing saw the launch of its new online journal 
delivery platform hosted by HighWire Press and a new domain 
http://royalsocietypublishing.org, replacing the site on 
MetaPress in February 2009. We automatically activated accounts 
but were wondering whether Libraries would find it useful if we 
set up an instructional video for students/researchers that would 
help them more easily navigate around the site. The aim is to 
assist Librarians and end users (perhaps with recorded actions 
and commentary) with a permanently available guide to our 
feature-rich site. If you think this would be useful or have any 
other ideas about making Highwire easier to use for you and your 
end users please let me know.

Highest ever Impact Factors achieved by Royal Society journals

We are pleased to announce increases in Impact Factor for every 
Royal Society journal, following the publication of the 2008 
Journal Citation Reports 
<http://science.thomsonreuters.com/training/jcr/> on 19 June 
2009. These latest Impact Factors 
<http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/science/free/essays/impact_factor/> 
represent the highest figures ever achieved by our journals and 
are the result of continuously tightening editorial standards 
against a background of strong increases in submissions year on 
year.
Proceedings A 
<http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/misc/metrics.xhtml> 
has increased to 1.705 (from 1.523) and is now ranked 13th in 
Multidisciplinary Sciences.
Proceedings B 
<http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/misc/metrics.xhtml> 
has increased to 4.248 (from 4.112) and is now ranked 8th in 
Biology.
Philosophical Transactions A 
<http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/misc/metrics.xhtml> 
has increased to 2.282 (from 1.52) and is now ranked 9th in 
Multidisciplinary Sciences.
Philosophical Transactions B 
<http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/misc/metrics.xhtml> 
has increased to 5.556 (from 5.529) and is now ranked 5th in 
Biology.
Biology Letters 
<http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/misc/metrics.xhtml> 
has increased to 3.00 (from 2.716) and is now ranked 15th in 
Biology.
Interface 
<http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/misc/metrics.xhtml> 
has increased to 3.621 (from 3.088) and is now ranked 6th in 
Multidisciplinary Sciences.
Notes and Records 
<http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/misc/metrics.xhtml> 
has increased to 0.225 (from 0.089) and is now ranked 33rd in 
History of Science.
Rankings in 
Eigenfactor<http://www.eigenfactor.org/whyeigenfactor.htm> are 
also improved. The Eigenfactor is a new metric - now being quoted 
more and more widely - which works in a similar way to Google's 
page rank algorithm. According to the Eigenfactor, our journals 
are now ranked as follows:
Proceedings A <http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org> is ranked 
6th in Multidisciplinary Sciences.
Proceedings B <http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org> is ranked 
3rd in Biology.
Philosophical Transactions A 
<http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org> is ranked 5th in 
Multidisciplinary Sciences.
Philosophical Transactions B 
<http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org> is ranked 4th in 
Biology.
Biology Letters <http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org> is 
ranked 11th in Biology.
Interface <http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org> is ranked 13th 
in Multidisciplinary Sciences.

The URLs of the new journal homepages:

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A,

24 issues, ISSN: 1364-503X, E-ISSN:1471-2962 
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B,

24 issues, ISSN: 0962-8436, E-ISSN: 1471-2970 
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org

Proceedings of the Royal Society A,

12 issues, ISSN: 1364-5021, E-ISSN: 1471-2946 
http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org

Proceedings of the Royal Society B,

24 issues, ISSN: 0962-8452; E-ISSN: 1471-2954 
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org

Journal of the Royal Society Interface,

12 issues, ISSN: 1742-5689, E-ISSN: 1742-5662 
http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org

Biology Letters,

6 issues, ISSN: 1744-9561, E-ISSN: 1744-957X 
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org

Notes & Records of the Royal Society,

4 issues, ISSN: 0035-9149, E-ISSN:1743-0178 
http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, annual, 
ISSN: 0080-4606, E-ISSN: 1748-8494 
http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org

Shania Khan,
Library Relations
Royal Society Publishing