ACS & INDIA Partners in Progress O R1 1 O O R R2 Xc HO COOR O OR R2 R1 O R2 ACS in India: October 1-12, 2012 Thank you from ACS Publications. Dear Colleagues, On behalf of ACS Publications, I extend my appreciation to the Indian research community for your ongoing support #1 IN SIXTEEN CATEGORIES of ACS journals. As authors, reviewers and editors, your commitment to excellence in scientific publishing upholds the commitment of ACS journals to be the most trusted, most cited and most read journals in chemistry and the allied sciences. Recognizing the importance of India as major force in scientific research, ACS Editors and I are delighted to have the opportunity to visit leading institutions conducting ground breaking research in chemistry and allied subjects. We thank our hosts in Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kanpur, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Pune for leading this initiative, for their hospitality and warm welcome, and for the opportunity to visit ACS Associate Editors, Editorial Advisory Board members, authors and researchers in the laboratories, institutes and universities where this leading research is accomplished. Chemistry is a global collaborative enterprise and the high-quality research published in ACS journals reflects this #1 #1 #1 #1 #1 ANALYTICAL APPLIED INORGANIC MEDICINAL #1 ORGANIC worldwide endeavor. Today, two-thirds of authors publishing in ACS journals conduct their research in laboratories CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY MULTIDISCIPLINARY CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY outside the United States. In 2011, ACS journals published over 1,000 articles from laboratories in India, covering a wide range of research spanning the scopes of all 41 ACS journals. Hundreds of reviews of manuscripts submitted to ACS journals last year were contributed by researchers in India. And manuscript submissions from India have grown faster than many other countries, reflecting the vibrancy of research performed here. We’re delighted to debut ACS on Campus in India at the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune and at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in Kolkata. ACS on Campus is a free program dedicated to prepare graduate students, post-docs, and tenure-track faculty for the professional hurdles they face in their careers. Our ACS Campus Events at the India National Chemical Laboratory and the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science will focus #1 #1 #1 #1 #1 POMHYSICS, AT IC, #1PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL FOOD SCIENCE MATERIALS SCIENCE, MOLECULAR on scientific publishing with the active participation of ACS Editors. CHEMISTRY ENGINEERING SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY MULTIDISCIPLINARY & CHEMICAL Over a fortnight, we look forward to many stimulating scientific talks, roundtables, and informal chats with our Indian colleagues, recognizing that only a small number of institutions can be visited during this journey. Our partnership and dialogue will continue beyond this visit, informed and bolstered by this unique opportunity to foster ongoing collaboration. Together we can build on ACS’s history of excellence in service to the chemical enterprise, enriching the process of scientific information discovery and communication. 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Giving Substance to a field, its prominence has grown to the point that now Iowa City, says that the new journal will relieve some pressure This summer saw the funding organizations, particularly in the US, are basing on his own. “We really can’t handle all the papers in this area,” Find out how introduction of the ACS’s their programs on sustainability. “It’s a particularly he says. “The new journal is needed because there’s so many latest journal, ACS Sustainable opportune time to have a focal point for advances in more people in the field, so many new ideas in the field.” ACS Sustainable chemistry and engineering that advance the sustainability And with a new journal, perhaps sustainable chemistry Chemistry & Engineering, of the chemicals enterprise,” says Allen. advocates will have more political clout. Schnoor spoke to Chemistry & dedicated to publishing Submissions are already being received, and the first Excellence just after the Rio+20 United Nations conference research on cleaner ways to papers will be available online in the fall of this year, on sustainable development. He was disappointed by the Engineering ahead of the first paper-saving electronic-only issue outcome of that meeting, which was criticized by many perform chemical processes, published in January 2013. The journal has observers for being too weak, and governments were is leading the and minimizing any harm focus areas that include: life-cycle accused of not making any useful commitments assessment, green chemistry, to sustainability. “Rio+20 was meant to to the environment during waste as resources, alternative be the green engineering, the green way chemical processes. energy, and green innovative business summits but they really fell manufacturing. Timing is short of their goals,” says Schnoor. “I think it behoves all of us in The ACS Green Chemistry Institute (GCI) in Washington, DC, Allen hopes that the journal everything, and academia, in industry and maybe opened its doors way back in 1997, with the aim of getting will help to clarify the government at the more regional the ideas of green and sustainable chemistry practices more ideas and tools of green since green chemistry and local scales to become more widespread throughout the chemical enterprise. So why is chemistry, sustainable sustainable, and hopefully this it that only now, 15 years later, a journal dedicated to green chemistry, and sustainable appeared on the scene journal will lead the way from an By Katharine Sanderson chemistry has emerged in the ACS Publications journal engineering. “As the field over 2 decades ago, the academic perspective,” Schnoor says. portfolio? promotes more systems and life-cycle approaches, the Schnoor’s advice to Allen is to focus on Timing is everything, and since green chemistry appeared field has evolved. journal can help to provide a place building a community around the journal. on the scene over 2 decades ago, the field has evolved. What for quantitative tools to be assessed “The important thing is the people,” says was a basic science has become a discipline that looks at and developed by the community. It’s Schnoor, “and trying to develop a community by the whole life-cycle of a chemical and brings chemistry useful to have this one intellectual gathering being fair and publishing articles as quickly as possible.” and engineering together to clean up processes. “As our place where the community can develop these ideas and understanding continues to evolve and expand we now know Allen, who is no stranger to the editorial world having tools,” says Allen. “There’s a critical need for an interdisciplinary things have to be approached from a systems basis point of served as an associate editor for the ACS journal Industrial approach to sustainability, by both chemists and engineers,” view and an integrated point of view, and this journal is going & Engineering Chemistry Research, aims to do just that. He says Peoples, “and addressing that challenge will be a major to bring that kind of integration,” says Bob Peoples, director hopes that the journal’s presence will help pull the com- role of the new journal,” he suggests. of the GCI. munity together, but also wants to work through existing ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering is warmly organizations like the GCI to develop the community more. Editor-in-Chief of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering welcomed by the editor of an ACS Publications stalwart – the is chemical engineer Dave Allen from the University of Texas In particular, Allen hopes the journal attracts submissions journal Environmental Science & Technology. ES&T’s Editor-in- at Austin. He says that since green chemistry emerged as from the likes of winners of the US Presidential Awards in Chief, engineer Jerry Schnoor from the University of Iowa in Green Chemistry, which have been awarded since 1996 to 4 / ACS & INDIA ACS & INDIA / 5 ACS EDITORS IN INDIA >>> Partners in Progress The American Chemical Society is dedicated to fostering global communications in the chemical sciences and its related disciplines in order to advance science for the betterment of the world. ACS Journals are therefore the ideal venue for Indian scientists to share their research achievements and enable both the David T. Allen, Editor-in-Chief of ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Robert Peoples, Director of the Green Jerald Schnoor, Editor-in-Chief University of Texas, Austin Chemistry Institute Environmental Science & Engineering University of Iowa, Iowa City global scientific community and society at large to benefit from discoveries made in India. Moreover,