| Publisher |
Royal Society of Chemistry |
| Agreement ID | rsc2024sanlic |
| Agreement labeling | RSC Platinum Read & Publish Agreement |
| Has the agreement been fully disclosed and published? | No |
| Agreement period | 01/01/2024 – 12/31/2027 |
| Consortia / Institution | SANLiC |
| Country | South Africa |
| SIZE
Approximate range of annual corresponding author publications |
83 |
| Comments on size/article output | Average article output for the years 2019-2022 |
| COSTS
How do the costs of the agreement relate to previous subscription-only agreements with the publisher? |
Agreement costs within the range of the previous spending level |
| Comments on cost development | Cost was below an inflationary increase on 2023 reading fees. No cost based on prior publishing spend is included. All our subscribing members have reading privileges across all RCS journals and unlimited publishing privileges in all hybrid and gold open access journals. |
| FINANCIAL SHIFT
Transformative 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? |
Unlimited OA publication |
| 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 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 | Partly (e.g. to core journals only) |
| WORKFLOW ASSESSMENT | Too early to assess |
| OVERALL ASSESSMENT AND COMMENTS | The agreement removed the publishing cap and waived Article Processing Charges (APCs) for new Gold journals until mid-2024, enabling researchers to publish open access across various journals |
| Request contact to the licensee | contact [at] esac-initiative [dot] org |