The Unisa Library signed the transitional agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry for the period 2021 - 2023.
Under this agreement, the Unisa will receive 1 token for a free gold open access article within the 44 Royal Society of Chemistry hybrid journals. In addition, a 15% discount when publishing in the 6 Gold Open Access journals.
Full gold open access journals
All of the articles are gold open access, usually after payment of an article processing charge. The content is available free online for everyone to read. The RSC full open access journals are:
- Chemical Science: our flagship journal, and there are no fees charged for publication.
- RSC Advances: article processing charges will be applied.
- Nanoscale Advances: article processing charges will be applied.
- RSC Chemical Biology: article processing charges are waived for all authors until mid-2022.
- Materials Advances: article processing charges are waived for all authors until mid-2022.
- Energy Advances: article processing charges are waived for all authors until mid-2024.
- Environmental Science: Atmospheres: article processing charges are waived for all authors until mid-2023.
- Environmental Science: Advances: article processing charges are waived for all authors until mid-2024.
- Digital Discovery: article processing charges are waived for all authors until mid-2024.
- Sensors & Diagnostics: article processing charges are waived for all authors until mid-2024
Read more about the RSG Gold Open Access programme here
