The Royal Society of Chemistry and Nature.com

A partnership agreed today is breaking new ground in the advertising of jobs for the science world.

For the first time, a Learned Society has collaborated with a major publisher to enable joint web advertising of scientific vacancies.

The Royal Society of Chemistry and Nature signed the agreement at the Piccadilly HQ of the international professional body which represents 46,000 members. Both organisations were formed in the 1800ís.

The joint venture will mean that jobs advertised within the recruitment resource of Nature, Naturejobs, will appear simultaneously on one of the RSC''s two websites and vice versa.

Users of both sites will enjoy an increased breadth and volume of vacancies.

Now it will have an easy-to-use link into job advertisements, said Phil Abrahams, the RSC''s General Manager Sales and Marketing.

This is a win/win situation for our own organisation and for Nature, he added. We will both consolidate our positions in the chemical sciences field.

Both Chemsoc''s and Naturejobsís careers and job centre offer a very wide package embracing latest career editorial, industrial and academic vacancies, studentships and fellowships, plus details of courses and events.

David Bowen, Marketing Manager for Naturejobs said: We are delighted with the RSC alliance. Thereís such a complimentary fit between these two bastions of science which our users and advertisers will benefit from instantlyî

We anticipate that professional bodies representing such science organisations will wish to study this arrangement to see if they can gain similarly from such an extended public reach.




The Royal Society of Chemistry is the Learned Society for chemistry and the Professional Body for chemists in the UK. With 46,000 members world-wide, it can trace its history back to the Chemical Society founded in 1841. The Society is a major international publisher of chemical information, supports the teaching of chemistry at all levels, organises hundreds of chemical meetings a year and is a leader in communicating science to the public.

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