The continuing transformation of Acta Crystallographica Section E and the launch of IUCrData

The first step of the relaunch of Acta Crystallographica Section E in June 2014 heralded its transformation from Structure Reports Online to Crystallographic Communications. It introduced papers in the new Research Communications format: these are full reports designed to bring out the science behind a structure determination. We are pleased to say that an ever increasing number of authors are choosing to publish their work as Research Communications, many discussing related structures in a single publication, making the most of the opportunity to include extra tables and figures in the published papers to illustrate their results and enhance the discussion of the underlying science. Those authors whose papers have typically included a detailed discussion accompanied by insightful figures have naturally been quick to embrace the Research Communications format. The short Data Reports are, however, still popular with many authors. With a little extra effort, a good proportion of these papers can be developed for publication as Research Communications. Such submissions are identified at the prescreening stage and the Section Editors and Co-editors then work closely with authors to help them to convert their article to the longer format by expanding the text and sometimes by combining a series of single-structure reports.