The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced an enhanced offering for all institutions involved in the DFG-RSC Gold licence agreement.
More than 87 institutions in Germany, plus all Max Planck and Fraunhofer Institutes, are not only able to access the full range of RSC Journals, growing to 41 titles in 2014, but will benefit collectively from more than 900 Gold for Gold voucher codes in 2014. Relevant researchers will have the opportunity to publish Open Access free of charge for the next three years in any of the RSC journals.
Gold for Gold ensures academics can further increase the visibility of their quality research, while raising their institution's reputation. Recent beneficiaries include: University of Cambridge, University College London, Queen's University Belfast, Birmingham University (all UK); University of California - Los Angeles (US); Helsinki University (Finland); Linkopings Universitet (Sweden); Universitat Basel (Switzerland); Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (Netherlands).
According to Uwe Rosemann, Director German National Library of Science and Technology and University Library Hannover (TIB/UB), Germany, the Alliance-RSC GOLD Licence agreement, negotiated with the Royal Society of Chemistry, is innovative. Not only does it offer users easy access to all RSC journal content, but all participating institutions receive a certain quantity of Open Access (OA) vouchers with which their authors can publish OA free of charge in any RSC journal.
