The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has stated that its new premium collection of international journals, databases and magazines offering access to all published material is proving to be a winner with more and more universities around the UK. The RSC already has 21 universities, including the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, York, Leeds, Warwick and Imperial College London, subscribing to RSC Gold, with several more lining up to take advantage of the offer.
As one of the world’s leading scientific publishers, the RSC offers an exceptional range of peer-reviewed journals, according to the organisation. These include the flagship journal Chemical Science, magazines, books, databases and publishing services to the chemical sciences community.
In addition, if a university has a RSC Gold subscription, staff are entitled to receive a 15 percent discount on the relevant RSC Open Science fee: authors are offered the option of paying a fee in exchange for making their accepted communication, research paper or review article openly available to all via the web. RSC Open Science will only be available to authors once their papers have been accepted for publication, following the normal peer-review procedures.
