American Chemical Society

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, 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. Cas connects the world's scientific knowledge to accelerate breakthroughs that improve lives, empowering global innovators to efficiently navigate today's complex data landscape and make confident decisions in each phase of the innovation journey. As a specialist in scientific knowledge management, cas builds the largest authoritative collection of human-curated scientific data in the world and provides essential information solutions, services, and expertise. Scientists, patent professionals, and business leaders across industries rely on cas to help them uncover opportunities, mitigate risks, and unlock shared knowledge so they can get from inspiration to innovation faster. Cas provides powerful information solutions, including the cas scifinder discovery platform(tm) and the stn ip protection suite(tm) that improve productivity and help advance disciplines - be it in chemistry and related sciences or intellectual property. Broad-based, easy to use solutions from cas drive discovery and deep insights for the scientific enterprise that lead to innovations ranging from product improvements to revelations that solve some of the world's greatest challenges in areas from treatment of disease to sustainable energy, or to global food supply needs. Cas brings unique capabilities to design cas custom services that maximize the strategic impact of scientific information, including digital assets, powering data-driven decisions and enabling organizations to innovate more efficiently. Acs publications delivered a strong performance in 2023. Acs journals continued to grow in submissions, published output, usage, and citations. 2023 highlights included the following: . Acs journals continued global leadership and influence. The portfolio of acs peer reviewed journals continued to represent the most trusted, most cited, most read scientific publications in their respective fields. During 2023, key editorial and quality metrics continued to show strong performance, with: . Over 64k peer reviewed articles published . Over 305 million full-text article downloads . C.4.5 million total citations reported . The successful introduction of acs es&t air and acs sustainable resource management . Acs acquired chronoshub to enhance author information solutions. The publications division invested in the acquisition of chronoshub to develop and enhance the author experience. Chronoshub is an open access management platform that streamlines publishing workflows and ensures effective collaboration between key stakeholders to promote open science. . Acs journals enabled open access/open science. Transformative 'read + publish' agreements covered over 1,000 institutions in 39 countries. Acs publications was the first publisher to launch a new option for authors to satisfy growing funder and institutional requirements for zero-embargo green open access, expanding the range of pathways through which authors can publish with acs. Chemrxiv surpassed 21k posted reprints and 49 million views/downloads. . C&en passed a significant milestone. C&en celebrated its centennial with a special issue covering ten consequential events, discoveries, and developments of the past century as well as looking ahead at challenges remaining to be addressed. . Acs journals and c&en prioritized diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect. The division published the third acs publications diversity data report that presented 2023 demographics of acs publications contributors and updates on active deir initiatives. C&en published the acs inclusivity style guide tip sheets to help writers make their content welcoming to all audiences. . The communications division is comprised of acs advertising sales and marketing, c&en, communications, and web strategy & operations. Its mission is to provide news and acs information and to communicate the vital role of Chemical professionals and the Chemical sciences in solving critical global challenges and improving everyday life to the public, policymakers, news media, and acs members. The function coordinates message development and speechwriting; promotion of Society news and publications to the media; communication of Society news to its members; conducts media training and training/technical assistance to members involved in communications; sales and marketing of Society content; and oversees the preparation of the Society's annual report, among other things. In addition, the function also oversees the Society's web presence, social media presence, and multimedia efforts.

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 2023, the acs prf funded 190 grants, totaling $19.8 million. The grants included 79 new directions grants; 77 doctoral new investigator grants; 14 undergraduate research grants; and 20 undergraduate new investigator grants. 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.

Education and membership in 2023, acs provided formal and informal educational resources, instruction, and mentorship for elementary, secondary, undergraduate, and graduate students and educators. The American association of chemistry teachers (aact) ended 2023 with more than 8,136 members. Aact has grown its classroom library to over 1,100 resources and received over 2.8 million web visits in 2023. The acs website for the "get the facts out" project continued to be promoted, providing information and a tool kit for changing the misperceptions around careers in teaching science and math in secondary schools. The us chemistry olympiad team won two gold and two silver medals at the 55th international chemistry olympiad. The impact of science outreach, including chemists celebrate earth week and national chemistry week, was enhanced by a new website for outreach activities, 32 chemistry festival grant awards, and two outreach summits. Working with the five scientific societies that established the inclusive graduate education network, the acs bridge project extended its reach in 2023 to include 45 Chemical sciences departments, over 120 acs bridge fellows, and a collection of professional development activities focused on increasing the number of underrepresented students who receive doctoral degrees in Chemical science as well as providing faculty and departmental support. Over 60 students were financially supported to attend the 2023 acs spring/fall meetings. A rapid-fire symposium and travel award breakfast were held at eli lilly. In partnership with the genentech foundation, acs also hosted the inaugural bridge career conference for 150 acs bridge fellows, graduate students, and posdoctoral scholars, as well as a career kickstarter workshop for 50 selected participants. The acs scholars program provided $1.1m scholarships to 320 undergraduate students from underrepresented groups in 2023. Working with 70 coordinators and almost 400 mentors, acs project seed offered in-person and virtual summer research experiences to 346 high school students in 2023, along with a week-long virtual orientation focused on lab preparedness and professional development and weekly virtual seminars. For the 2022-2023 school year, acs awarded 49 project seed college scholarships to alumni entering their freshman year in college. The initiative on fostering a skilled technical workforce expanded engagement of a diverse network of stakeholders critical to the recruitment and preparation of students and potential employees using science and engineering skills in their jobs, but not holding a bachelor's degree. The Chemical technical professionals website launched, and the acs preparectp seed grant program was piloted. Recognition, workshops, and grants were offered to students and educators. Two updated sets of guidelines were released for bachelor's degree programs and two-year college programs. Electronic credentials were offered to over 1,200 certified graduates of acs-approved programs. A discussion series focused on undergraduate education for chairs of chemistry departments continued in 2023. The acs institute, an online portal to a collection of professionals and career development resources, has eight centers of learnng and 120 courses and workshops, six of which were added in 2023. In 2023, 94 acs career consultants held 362 individual career consultations and monthly virtual office hours for approximately 1,600 attendees total. Acs continued to advance and cultivate Chemical safety. In 2023, the pilot high school Chemical safety grant program funded three of 60 applications; 864 learners enrolled in the free online course on safe storage and management of chemicals in educational settings; and 4,445 learners enrolled in the Chemical safety and risk management foundational course. Three new videos were added to the acs Chemical safety youtube channel, which now hosts 22 videos and has gathered almost 300,000 views since its creation in 2019. The 2023 acs presidential safety summit, with 40 invited participants, focused on graduate-student led laboratory safety teams. Green chemistry educational activities included: the launch of the website with green and sustainable chemistry modules for undergraduate curricula: the 2023 summer school on green chemistry and sustainable energy, attended by 62 students from north and south america: green chemistry student awards: and the launch of the green chemistry teaching and learning community with beyond benign. Acs continued the campaign for a sustainable future, hosting the reimagining chemistry education summit, a hybrid 2-day event with over 325 participants. Two new grant programs were established, awarding 12 grants totaling $500,000. The green chemistry for sustainability platform was launched, working with partners, to accelerate research, innovation, and commercialization of sustainable processes and products. The hybrid spring 2023 and fall 2023 meetings had more than 12,600 and 15,200 registrants from 72 and 74 countries, respectively, each with over 9,800 submitted abstracts. Acs hosted and supported a collection of 25 other specialty conferences, events, and meetings in 2023, attracting more than 9,500 attendees. This included eight acs regional meetings, as well as the 27th green chemistry & engineering conference held in a hybrid format with over 800 attendees from 51 countries. Other acs events included colloquia, webinars, and workshops held in conjuction with other meetings and conferences, as well as independently. Over 150 of these were organized by acs publications, including 36 acs on campus events attended by 4,800 participants. In 2023, virtual acs science talks featured 27 speakers representing 15 different countries and attracted approximately 20,000 registrants from 148 countries. In 2023, acs closed the year with over 200,000 individuals in its global membership community. Acs supported a range of communities in 2023, including 32 divisions, 212 branches (us local sections and international Chemical science chapters), 24 acs graduate student organizations, ~1200 domestic acs student chapters, and 138 acs international student chapters. The 2023 acs leadership institute, a global summit, and 23 program chair meetings were held for over 400 acs volunteer leaders. In 2023, acs international Chemical sciences chapters began receiving annual allotments. In 2023, 81 people were recognized with 556 national awards at a ceremony with approximately 500 attendees, 22 acs committees presented 49 chemluminary awards at a ceremony with over 300,150 attendees, and 42 acs fellows were inducted. Industry member engagement was increased through events including 2 industry networking receptions, a summit for chief technology officers, and a summit for pharma executives. Industry members were recognized by 17 national awards and 6 heroes of chemistry awards. The acs green chemistry institute industrial roundtables awarded $480,000 in research grants, distributing $400,000 of those funds in 2023. The 2023 diversity leaders summit brought together more than 40 participants from industry, academia, government, and societies. In 2023, acs sponsored and attended peer-society conferences for the national organization for the professional advancement of black chemists and Chemical engineers (nobcche), which celebrated its 50th anniversary; the American indian science and engineering Society (aises) conference, where acs received aises' 2023 advocacy partner award; and the Society for advancement of chicanos/hispanics & native americans in science (sacnas) conference, which celebrated its 50th anniversary.