From: "Romano, Maria" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:01:18 +0000 **Apologies for Cross Posting ** ==================================== Royal Society Publishing launches two new Open Access Membership Programmes to encourage open access in Scholarly communication. http://bit.ly/OAmembership ==================================== The new membership programmes acknowledge the growth of open access publishing as well as the increasing number of open access articles being published by scientists in the Royal Society’s journals. Benefits include: * Researchers at Member Institutions are awarded a 25% discount off their article processing fee on publication of their open access article. * Institutions are given a personalised webpage on the Royal Society publishing site, showcasing their research and linking through to the full text of the article. * The Membership is a flat annual fee based on projected publications in the relevant scientific disciplines. ==================================== These two new membership programmes have aroused interest from UK and international scientific institutions with five Institutions signing up already. * The Excellence in Science Membership is relevant for institutions publishing across all areas of science. http://bit.ly/excmemb * Open Biology Membership for those who wish to just support researchers in the biological sciences at the cellular and molecular level. http://bit.ly/OBmemb Speaking of the new membership programmes, Professor Mike Brady, FRS, University of Oxford commented, “The Royal Society is delighted to play such an active role in the future of open access publishing with the launch of Open Biology and the two new institutional membership programmes. Open access is an established means of delivering important scientific information to researchers wishing to access and publish content that is freely and openly available on the web.” For more information about membership, please contact: Caroline Blenkin Institutional Membership Consultant Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: +44 208 815 1739 ==================================== In 2005, the Royal Society introduced its first open access publishing model “EXIS Open Choice”, allowing authors to make their articles open-access via the payment of an article-processing fee. Following this, the Royal Society recently launched its first completely full open access journal “Open Biology”, publishing original, high quality research in the field of cell and molecular biology. All papers are made freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution License permitting use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original work is cited. Regards, Maria Romano Journals Sales Manager Email [log in to unmask] Web royalsocietypublishing.org The Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AG The Royal Society Digital Journal Archive, dating back to 1665 and containing over 67,000 articles, is free to all package subscribers.