American Chemical Society

Programs: Information services - the american chemical society (acs) achieves its goal to be an indispensable professional and information resource for members and other chemistry-related practitioners through two publishing divisions, chemical abstracts service(cas) and acs publications. These divisions provide significant services to acs members and the global scientific community with accurate, timely, and authoritative chemical and related scientific information. The cas team of highly trained scientists finds, collects, and organizes all publicly disclosed substance information, creating the world's most valuable collection of content that is vital to innovation worldwide. Scientific researchers, patent professionals and business leaders around the world rely on a suite of research solutions from cas that enable discovery and facilitate workflows to fuel tomorrows innovation. The cas registry(sm)is the largest and most authoritative collection of chemical substance information available to researchers. In addition to covering substances from journals and patents, cas registry includes substances from chemical catalogs, worldwide governmental regulatory agencies and reputable web resources. Cas registry now contains more than 130 million unique organic and inorganic substances. Cas is creating solutions that improve efficiencies and accelerate scientific innovation around the world. In 2016, cas continued its evolution from a publisher to a solutions provider. In addition to providing the largest and highest quality content, cas added new solutions into its portfolio in 2016. -methodsnow allows scientists to compare the largest collection of scientific methods, with instant access to reliable and actionable lab methods. -chemzent(tm) allows scientists to navigate chemistrys earliest history with access to the first and only english-searchable version of chemische zentralblatt, the oldest journal of chemistry abstracts covering the literature from 1830-1969. Cas covers 63 worldwide patent authorities to ensure comprehensive patent information within its databases, including multiple basics coverage from all covered authorities. Supplementing the disclosed chemistry added to cas databases from document analysis, chemcats, the cas chemical catalogs database, helps researchers more quickly locate the chemicals they need with direct access to hundreds of commercial chemical suppliers. Through an unparalleled commitment to quality, reliability, and innovation, acs publications serves the global scientific community as the leading publisher of 51 peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences, and chemical & engineering news (c&en), the leading news magazine of the chemical world. Through its journals, acs provides the global scientific community with highly valued information in a cost-effective manner to foster scholarship and discovery in the chemical sciences and related disciplines. Living up to their reputation as "most trusted, most cited, and most read", more than 40,000 articles authored by research teams globally are selected annually for publication within the societys peer-reviewed journals, through a rigorous editorial process that has solidified the societys publishing portfolio as one of preeminence in terms of both subsequent literature citations and impact factor ranking metrics. Acs central science continued its progress to become the preeminent open access journal in chemistry, and one of the most impactful journals in the acs portfolio. The division continued to streamline ecommerce abilities to support open access options and improvements on journal home pages raised visibility of acs editors choice open access articles. Acs publications delivered a record 93. 8 million counter-compliant downloads of articles to users during 2016. Readers worldwide viewed 182 million abstracts from across the online platform. A new metrics section was introduced to the feature display for acs journal articles providing end users with a richer set of data about the individual research articles published across the acs journals portfolio. As of 2016, acs2go, the divisions new mobile delivery capability that enables subscriber access to the acs publications suite of electronic products on smartphones and tablet devices, has resulted in more than 650,000 unique smartphone and tablet devices having paired with the acs publications website. The acs publications international symposium series was established with the inaugural event, innovation in molecular science, successfully launched in partnership with the institute of chemistry, chinese academy of sciences in beijing. The symposia series will be a prominent global forum to expand international engagement with acs. Acs omega began publishing in 2016 as the societys second fully open access journal, further expanding the global reach of the acs publications portfolio along with new journals acs sensors and acs energy letters. Acs omega also began featuring a new taxonomic filtering feature, allowing users to quickly narrow their results of acs omega articles, published across a broad multidisciplinary scope, to the disciplines and/or sub disciplines of their interest.

education and membership - teaching and learning chemistry in the context of our world is a hallmark of the resources, services, and products produced by acs. Students and educators know that acs is synonymous with quality. Acs continues to be a leader in science education - to inspire students to seek knowledge and careers in science and prepare them for the realities of the global marketplace. In 2016, acs reached out to numerous elementary and secondary school students in new and innovative ways. Acs provided a new generation of undergraduate and graduate students with opportunities to learn skills that they will need to compete and succeed as they move forward with their careers. The american association of chemistry teachers (aact,) launched in 2014, is the first national, chemistry-specific association of its kind dedicated to k-12 teachers. Aact ended 2016 with more than 4,000 members, 88 percent of whom are k-12 teachers. In 2016, aact received $95,000 in grants to support the development of online resources. The second and third dow & aact teacher summits were held in louisiana and texas with overwhelmingly positive results. One of acs's most successful efforts, the acs scholars program, continues to help underrepresented minority students achieve their dreams of obtaining degrees and careers in a broad range of chemical sciences. In all, nearly 2,900 african-american, hispanic/latino, and native american students have participated in the program since 1995. Of those, 1,692 have earned bachelor's degrees in a chemical science and more than 268 of these acs scholars have gone on to earn doctoral degrees in chemistry, chemical engineering, or a related discipline. Another premier program, project seed, offers high school students the rare opportunity to work in academic, government, or industrial research laboratories for an eight-to-ten week term during the summer to engage in hands-on science research projects under the supervision of volunteer scientists. In 2016, 435 volunteer scientists and coordinators mentored 414 students in more than 120 institutions in 38 states, the district of columbia and puerto rico. For the 2016-2017 school year, acs awarded 31 project seed college scholarships to alumni entering their freshman year in college. Three project seed college scholars received the ciba specialty chemicals scholarships for three-renewable years beginning with their sophomore year. Chemidp, an online individual development plan tool launched in 2015 and designed specifically for graduate students continued its expansion in 2016. Nine chemidp workshops were held at both the acs national meetings, at regional meetings, and at cornell university. The associated web tool was enhanced and updated to further serve graduate students and postdocs in the chemical sciences, with over 1,300 new user accounts created. In collaboration with the acs committee on chemical safety the education division and web strategy and operations launched a new website with a rich collection of methods and tools for assessing hazards in research laboratories. The resulting site is being used by educators as a core material for their chemical safety practices. To assist educators with integrating safety throughout the entire chemistry curriculum, acs has issued new guidelines for use in secondary schools and other academic institutions. The guidelines include student learning outcome statements which clearly state the expected knowledge, skills, attitudes and competencies in the area of chemical safety that students are expected to acquire as they progress with their education. Acs membership and scientific advancement(m&sa)programs are administered with the vision that acs will be the premier professional membership organizations for all practitioners of chemistry. As of december 31,2016, the acs has more than 156,000 members. Membership programs are built around five fundamental objectives: - advance the chemical sciences and technologies through the delivery of high quality programs that provide cutting-edge technical information to all practitioners of chemistry and chemical engineering; - communicate the value of chemistry and chemical engineering to the public by providing excellent volunteer-based programs and activities to members, local sections, and technical divisions; - support a diverse community of chemical professionals through value-based programs, services, and information that allow chemical practitioners to develop and manage their careers in a global environment; - advance the frontiers of science in multidisciplinary, international context; ensure advances in scientific knowledge and education benefit the global scientific community; and to foster a lifelong connection among international chemical professionals to acs; and - advance the implementation of green chemistry and engineering principles into all aspects of the global chemistry enterprise. In 2016, the acs held two national and seven regional meetings. More than 29,000 people attended the acs national meetings and more than 21,000 scientific papers were delivered. Acs facilitated the organization of seven regional meetings which attracted more than 6,000 attendees and had more than 4,000 scientific papers. Membership continued to extend its multimedia broadcast program with two "program in a box" events. These broadcasts helped local sections and student chapters nationwide host onsite/online events featuring high-value online content, interactive social media and a ready-to-use kit to engage members and facilitate their learning and networking. In 2016, approximately 300 local sections, student chapters, and chemclubs participated in the "program in a box" events, an increase of 40 over 2015 (which had about 260 participating groups). The acs office of international activities (oia) organized a number of key activities in 2016, advancing chemistry and the societys commitment to "cooperate with scientists internationally and be concerned with the worldwide application of chemistry to the needs of humanity". In so doing, acs developed new international chapters and alliances and advanced science and human rights. The acs career navigator continues to provide members and other chemistry-related professionals with a one-stop-shop of key resources to help them succeed in the global chemistry enterprise with all stages of their careers. Acs career navigator seamlessly combines the offering of acs career services, professional education, leadership development, and market intelligence into a single, unified experience for acs members and potential members. In 2016, the acs career navigator achieved more than 8,500 substantial interactions worldwide with acs members and potential members to meet their professional needs. In 2016, increased focus was placed on retaining and attracting industry members, including new content, global events and outreach efforts to industrial scientists and their employers. Topical innovation conferences were organized with local chapters in foreign countries drawing more than 600 participants, high satisfaction, and new acs members. A pilot workshop was organized on industry-university partnership at the southwest regional meeting in galveston, texas. The acs green chemistry institute serves as a nexus, or green chemistry "hub," by connecting an international network of practitioners from around the world, including government, industrial, academic, non-governmental organizations, and private sectors. The acs gci accomplishes this through programs in science and research, education and industry. The 20th annual green chemistry and engineering conference was a notable success, attracting 534 participants. Work in education moved forward through a green chemistry educational roadmap initiative and included a workshop to bring together leading green chemistry practitioners to advance the roadmap. Work with industrial roundtables was expanded through the launch of a new biochemical technology leadership roundtable which seeks to promote non-competitive science-based collaboration throughout the bio-based and renewable chemicals value chain.

acs petroleum research fund - the acs petroleum research fund is a permanently restricted endowment established to provide resources for advanced scientific education and fundamental research in the petroleum field, which may include any field of pure science which affords a basis for subsequent research directly connected with the petroleum field. In 2016, the acs prf funded 202 grants, totaling $20. 2 million. The grants included 78 new directions grants; 82 doctoral new investigator grants; 20 undergraduate research grants; and 22 undergraduate new investigator grants. Sir j. Fraser stoddart of northwestern university became the 29th noble laureate with previous prf support. The following types of grants are among those funded by the acs petroleum research fund: - research grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field at phd-granting institutions. Research grants to academic institutions for regularly appointed faculty scientists and engineers to assist advanced scientific education and fundamental research. - research grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field at the undergraduate level. Research grants to academic institutions on behalf of faculty members in departments not offering a doctoral degree, to support their research with participation by undergraduates. - research grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field for new faculty. - starter grants to assist the research of young faculty members with a phd degree who are within their first three years of their first academic appointment as regular faculty members of colleges and universities in the united states.