In reply to Cameron Neylon.

I'm not sure we'll see a lot of competition between RSC and ACS in a lot of schools in the US. ACS is clearly the dominant society for the majority of institutions. As an example, we have a chem faculty about about 15-18, with 2 faculty members from the UK (I think one is still a UK citizen), and we don't have access online to the RSC journal archive. We have all of the ACS content. I'm still not sure how journal prices and models will affect ACS accreditation/endorsement of programs in the long run. I still think the majority of chemists want to have formally accredited programs, but the policy creation may fall to the older faculty who know less about newer publishing models.