The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library have signed their first transformative Open Access agreement, which delivers shared goals of equity for German institutions, a community approach, and universal OA for authors.
Beginning in 2024, the four-year agreement bridges the gap to 2028 when the Royal Society of Chemistry plans to transition all its fully RSC-owned journals to Open Access.
The RSC Platinum consortia model in Germany is a new community Open Access model, co-designed by the RSC and TIB, enabling participation from all academic and research institutions, including non-publishing institutions.
The four-year agreement provides unlimited publishing services (submission, peer-review, hosting, indexing, promotion, etc) supporting authors and readers at 77 institutions in Germany. Authors at participating institutions can read and publish in all RSC journals without any author-facing charges. From 2028, under a renewal of the model, all content will be fully Open Access and authors from participating institutions can publish without author charges.
The agreement is the first in a series of pilot models the Royal Society of Chemistry plans to roll out to its global institutional customer base to support the transition of RSC-owned journals to Open Access by 2028. The RSC aims for most of its authors to be covered by institutional OA agreements by the time it transitions to OA.
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