IUCr Journals Open to SESAME

As part of the celebrations of the International Year of Crystallography 2014, the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) is pleased to support the SESAME project by providing free online access to IUCr Journals for the period 2014 to 2016, inclusive. This will allow access to

• Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations and Advances
• Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials
• Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry
• Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography
• Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online
• Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology Communications
• IUCrJ (a new open-access high-influence journal launched in 2014)
• Journal of Applied Crystallography
• Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
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On receiving the news from the IUCr, SESAME Scientific Director, Professor Giorgio Paolucci, commented, "On behalf of the SESAME community, I am very grateful to the International Union of Crystallography for providing access to these journals, I am sure that at this point in time scientific programs at SESAME will benefit greatly from this generous opportunity". Professor Samar Hasnain, Editor-in-Chief of IUCr Journals, added, "The availability of these nine journals to the SESAME staff as part of the International Year of Crystallography activities is a positive contribution from the Union to this very special project". Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, President of the SESAME Council said, "SESAME greatly appreciates and needs the goodwill and support the project is receiving from round the world, at a time when political turbulence in the Middle East is making scientific collaboration across borders harder but even more desirable".

The IUCr (http://www.iucr.org) is an International Scientific Union. Its objectives are to promote international cooperation in crystallography and to contribute to all aspects of crystallography, to promote international publication of crystallographic research, to facilitate standardization of methods, units, nomenclatures and symbols, and to form a focus for the relations of crystallography to other sciences. The United Nations has declared that 2014 will be the official International Year of Crystallography (http://www.iycr2014.org).

SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East; http://www.sesame.org.jo) is a "third-generation" synchrotron light source under construction in Allan, Jordan. Being developed under the auspices of UNESCO, SESAME will be the Middle East's first major international research centre, and is scheduled to come into full operation in late 2015/early 2016. As an intergovernmental scientific and technological centre of excellence open to all scientists from the Middle East and elsewhere, SESAME will serve as a propeller for the scientific, technical and economic development of the region, and will strengthen collaboration in science.

Contacts

IUCr: Jonathan Agbenyega, Business Development Manager, IUCr ja@iucr.org
SESAME: Sonia Al-Faques, Sonia@sesame.org.jo