For papers accepted between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2027, U of A corresponding authors will now receive APC-free publishing in all Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) journals. This includes both hybrid and gold OA journals. To search by publisher or for individual titles, use the Journal Search Tool.
This new three-year agreement was negotiated by our national consortium, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). It marks a big improvement over our previous agreement with the RSC, which gave authors a 15% APC discount.
So far this year, all ten (10) U of A papers published with the RSC have been released OA under this agreement.
CSU will also place a message about this in the Academics Digest email, in the near future.