Royal Society of Chemistry TA/Read & Publish Agreement (2024 - 2025)
Overview
WPI faculty, staff, and students who are corresponding authors on articles published in Royal Society of Chemistry hybrid and Gold Open Access journals are able to make these available open access without any payment. The agreement covers all research articles and review-type articles published in RSC gold OA and hybrid journals. .
Authors will be clearly notified on screen in the RSC submission system that they are eligible for the Read & Publish agreement and that they can publish OA with no APC to pay. To be eligible, the author must be the corresponding author assigned in the RSC submission system and must use the WPI institutional email address to submit their article.
Eligibility
- WPI corresponding authors can publish an unlimited number of articles as OA articles for free in all Hybrid Journals and Gold OA Journals (including RSC Advances)
- Double-check that the WPI author is listed as the corresponding author, both in the RSC online submission system and in the manuscript
- Use your official WPI institutional email address to submit your manuscript.
- State your WPI institute affiliation and email address in your manuscript and make sure this remains the same, even after submission
License Used
- Do not sign the standard license to publish; upon acceptance of your manuscript, you will be able to choose and sign the CC BY or CC BY-NC open access license. [Authors can decide to opt-out of open access (OA) and sign a standard (non-OA) licence instead.]
More Information
More information can be found on the Royal Society of Chemistry website.
