RSC acquires The Merck Index
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- Published: Dec 14, 2012
- Author: Steve Down
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The Royal Society of Chemistry has bought the rights to The Merck Index in an agreement with Merck and will offer it as part of its publishing portfolio beginning in April 2013 with the launch of the 15th edition. This definitive standard chemistry reference work, known as Chemistry's Constant CompanionTM, will be fully revised and updated and will contain more than 500 new monographs in a total of more than 10,000 monographs covering more than 18,000 compounds with 50,000 synonyms.
RSC Publishing Executive Director James Milne said "We are very excited to be welcoming a title as prestigious as The Merck Index to the RSC portfolio. It makes an excellent strategic fit with our current publishing activities, complementing existing services such as ChemSpider, the award-winning free database of chemical structures."
It will also be developed for the digital future, providing a fully searchable database of over 11,500 monographs, including historic monographs not available in the print edition.
