rsc2022ie

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry

Agreement ID rsc2022ie
Agreement labeling RSC – IReL 2022-2024
Has the agreement been fully disclosed and published? Yes
URL https://irel.ie/open-access/royal-society-of-chemistry/
Agreement period 01/01/2022 – 12/31/2024
Consortia / Institution IReL
Country Ireland
SIZE

Approximate range of annual corresponding author publications

85
COSTS

How do the costs of the agreement relate to previous subscription-only agreements with the publisher?

Cost increase
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?

No risk sharing. Fixed allocation of OA articles per year of the agreement.
OA COVERAGE

Are all journals relevant to your affiliated authors (in which you expect them to publish) eligible for OA publishing under the agreement?

No
Are fully open access journals covered by the agreement? No
OA LICENSE CC-BY mandatory
CC-BY variations allowed
ARTICLE TYPES
Original research articles
Review 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 Deficient
Comments on workflows Does not presently allow us to verify eligible authors upon article acceptance
OVERALL ASSESSMENT AND COMMENTS While we desired a deal with unlimited OA publishing, this proved to be not feasible. The deal we reached is an affordable compromise giving us a limited OA allocation, while not requiring all members to subscribe to the full RSC journal collection.
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