Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:55:37 +0000
Dear colleagues,
The
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and
Lyrasis have entered into an
open access publishing agreement to accelerate momentum toward global open access scholarship. Launched in 2023 and expanded in 2024, this partnership is one of the first and largest consortial open access agreements with RSC in the United States to date.
Twenty-two colleges and universities representing more than 38,000 faculty and 325,000 students have joined the agreement, publishing about 175 scholarly articles with RSC annually.
This agreement enables corresponding authors affiliated with participating institutions to publish OA in more than 40 RSC scholarly
journals, both fully OA and hybrid, with no publishing fees or limits on OA articles published. The agreement also provides reading access to the full RSC Gold package of 50-plus scholarly journals. Authors who publish OA under this agreement can select a
CC BY or CC BY-NC open license. Institutional participation in this agreement is available exclusively to Lyrasis members.
Full details and the text of the agreement are available on the
Lyrasis website and on the
ESAC Registry. Read the press release at
https://tinyurl.com/5axvkhx5
Best wishes,
Michael
Michael Rodriguez (he/him)
Senior Strategist, Content & Scholarly Communication
+1 470-707-9258