The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced that it is making a change to copyright arrangements for open access papers published in RSC journals. Beginning April 1, 2013, authors will have the option to publish under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license when choosing to publish their research via the Gold open access route.
Publishing research articles under the CC BY licence, a requirement by many funding agencies, makes the article available for anyone to copy, distribute, adapt or make commercial use of it, as long as the research is attributed to the author or licensor.
The RSC will also offer authors of Gold open access papers the option to publish under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) licence, should they and/or their funders find this more appropriate.
