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    Chemistry is now starting to embrace preprints, with more and more researchers in chemical and materials sciences posting their manuscripts online prior to peer review. Preprints can speed up the dissemination of scientific results and lead to more informal exchanges between researchers, hopefully accelerating the pace of research as a whole.

    • François-Xavier Coudert

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    Michelle Francl considers the long-lost art of the reprint card and the debate that once raged about its use and misuse.

    • Michelle Francl

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    In our very first issue, eight scientists shared their visions for how they thought chemistry would develop and now, ten years on, we have asked another group of researchers to look to the future. We also take this opportunity to look back and reflect on a decade of Nature Chemistry.

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    The launch of Nature Chemistry in 2009 prompted some criticism of journal proliferation, but 100 issues later this young offender has matured into an accepted part of the publishing landscape.

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    As Nature Chemistry celebrates its fifth birthday, we take a look at some of the facts and figures that underpin the story of the journal so far.

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    Michelle Francl suggests that self-plagiarism is a misleading term and that repeating yourself in publications isn't always a bad thing.

    • Michelle Francl

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    Jean-François Lutz wonders whether chemists should slow down.

    • Jean-François Lutz

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    The historical context in which a scientific paper is published is an important factor that should not be overlooked, suggest Qian Wang and Chris Toumey.

    • Qian Wang
    •  & Chris Toumey

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    With more and more scientific articles and journals being published, how can you effectively keep abreast of new research relevant to your own projects?

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    Michelle Francl wants a chemistry book that could conjure up Linus Pauling.

    • Michelle Francl

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    Including pictorial summaries of each article on the table-of-contents pages of a journal makes it just that little bit easier to browse — rather than search — the scientific literature.

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    Press embargoes of research articles can serve journals, researchers and journalists — as long as everyone plays by, and understands, the rules.

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    The editorial process at Nature Chemistry differs in some important ways from that employed at other chemistry journals.

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