The American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society, has announced that it has won two prestigious PROSE awards for excellence in scholarly publishing.
ACS Nano, edited by Dr. Paul S. Weiss, received the Association of American Publishers' Award for Best New Journal in the category of Science, Technology, and Medicine. ACS Nano was launched in August 2007 and publishes cutting-edge original research in the areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
ACS was also recognised as the winner of eProduct/Best Website or Platform. This prestigious award recognises ACS for the recent launch of a new Web delivery platform, now hosting the Society's 34 peer-reviewed research journals. The award in the Website or Platform category recognises the combined work of the ACS Publications Division, the Society's Information Technology (IT) division, and Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the global leader in chemical information and repository of comprehensive databases of research in chemistry and related sciences. The innovative technology recognised by this award allows for the linking of ACS journal articles directly to SciFinder, the research discovery tool that provides scientists access to CAS databases. ACS journal readers who are subscribers to SciFinder benefit from the combined integrated services now available.
The ACS Publications Division's new journal Web delivery platform delivers enhanced searching and browsing capabilities, better user navigation, and unique connections and pathways to other ACS Web properties such as Chemical & Engineering News (ACS' weekly newsmagazine) and the ACS Paragon Plus Environment, in addition to SciFinder.
