rsc2019iow

Publisher	Royal Society of Chemistry
Agreement ID	rsc2019iow
Agreement labeling	Read and Publish
Has the agreement been disclosed and published?	No
Agreement period	01/01/2019 – 12/31/2019
Consortia / Institution	Iowa State University
Country	United States
SIZE Approximate range of annual corresponding author publications	29
Comments on size/ article output	Based on publisher estimate
COSTS How do the costs of the agreement relate to previous subscription-only agreements with the publisher?	Cost increase
Comments on cost development	Year one price is approximately 10% higher than previous year’s subscription package. RSC agreement model may lead to reductions to the Read fee based on agreement adoption. costs may move towards being neutral over time.
FINANCIAL SHIFT Transfomative agreements vary by their transformative mechanisms, meaning the way in which financing is shifted from the subscription side to open access publishing. What are the characteristics of this agreement to this regard?	Subscriptions partly converted to oa publishing fees
RISK SHARING How do entitlements for open access publishing correlate to the anticipated article output? Which mechanisms for risk sharing have been agreed in cases of exceeding or not reaching the number of oa publishing entitlements?	Fixed OA publishing entitlements match anticipated output. Articles above entitlement will be published on the subscription side or the library will need to pay additional publishing costs to make them OA.
OA COVERAGE Are all journals relevant to your affiliated authors (in which you expect them to publish) eligible for oa publishing under the agreement?	Yes
Are fully open access journals covered by the agreement?	Yes
OA LICENSE	CC-BY variations allowed
ARTICLE TYPES	Original research articles
ACCESS COSTS What is the approximate share of access related costs of the overall agreement?	More than 50%
ACCESS COVERAGE Are all read relevant journals covered by the agreement?	Yes
PERPETUAL ACCESS RIGHTS	Yes
WORKFLOW ASSESSMENT	Too early to assess
Comments on workflows	We are undertaking joint development with Cambridge to accommodate UC’s multi-payer workflow beginning in 2020 as part of the agreement.
OVERALL ASSESSMENT AND COMMENTS	Agreement is sustainable. Read fee will possibly go down based on the number of articles RSC publishes on the OA side vs the subscription side.Overall, this is a good starter agreement with RSC. They were very easy to work with. Regular US sales reps understood the OA model and could answer questions about it.
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