The Royal Society sets 75% threshold to ‘flip’ its research journals to Open Access over the next five years | Royal Society

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Summary:

"In an exciting new chapter for its scientific publishing, the Royal Society sets out how it will transition its primary research journals to open access and make more of its world-leading research available to all.

Following a review by its Council, the Royal Society has committed to ‘flipping’ the journals Biology Letters, Interface, Proceedings A, and Proceedings B to a fully open access model when 75% of articles are being published open access.

This transition will be driven chiefly by the expansion of Read & Publish agreements with major research institutions, enabling their scientific research output to be published open access in the Society’s journals.

The process is already well underway, the Society launched Royal Society Read & Publish in January 2021 and has pioneered new agreements – including a shared funding arrangement announced this year with the University of California...."

Link:

https://royalsociety.org/news/2021/05/royal-society-open-access-plans/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.royal_society oa.societies oa.uk oa.gold oa.conversions oa.fees oa.hybrid oa.offsets oa.agreements oa.journals oa.plan_s

Date tagged:

05/14/2021, 08:10

Date published:

05/14/2021, 04:10