{"id":3817,"date":"2020-02-19T15:03:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T19:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2020-02-19T15:03:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T19:03:55","slug":"mit-libraries-the-royal-society-of-chemistry-extend-open-access-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/2020\/mit-libraries-the-royal-society-of-chemistry-extend-open-access-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Libraries &amp; the Royal Society of Chemistry extend open access agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The MIT Libraries and the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsc.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Royal Society of Chemistry<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have signed a two-year contract extending their groundbreaking 2018 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/royal-society-chemistry-3\/27769\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">read &amp; publish agreement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that maintains full access to the RSC\u2019s journals and incorporates open access to MIT\u2019s scholarly articles. The new contract aligns with MIT\u2019s open scholarship goals in the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/publishing\/framework\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, released in October 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under the new agreement, MIT corresponding authors can make articles published in RSC journals in 2020 and 2021 openly available at the time of publication at no cost to them.\u00a0 A total of 73 articles per year will be made openly available, a number expected to be sufficient to include all or nearly all MIT corresponding-authored articles. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/publishing\/oa-publishing-support\/rsc-mit-libraries-read-publish-agreement\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">See this page for more details on the OA workflow for authors<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Libraries have been using the MIT Framework (which emerged from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mitoataskforce.pubpub.org\/pub\/final-report\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MIT Open Access Task Force recommendations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">) as a foundation for negotiations with publishers since the fall, and it has been met with strong support: dozens of libraries and consortia in North America have endorsed it. The RSC agreement aligns with key elements of the the framework by:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">incorporating a plan for open access to all MIT-authored articles, through two paths: by immediate publication at the RSC site for MIT corresponding authored articles, and, for other MIT co-authored articles, by building, in 2020, an automatic service that will deposit final manuscripts into MIT\u2019s open access repository, DSpace@MIT.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">making all articles published open access on the RSC site available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license, which permits open sharing and reuse.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">enhancing text and data mining\/computational access through improved contract language.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also significant is that this blended approach to achieving full open access for MIT authored articles is recognized by RSC in the agreement as a transitional step intended move RSC\u2019s entire publishing program fully to open access, worldwide.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MIT Libraries and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsc.org\/\">Royal Society of Chemistry<\/a> have signed a two-year contract extending their groundbreaking 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/royal-society-chemistry-3\/27769\/\">read &amp; publish agreement<\/a>that maintains full access to the RSC\u2019s journals and incorporates open access to MIT\u2019s scholarly articles. The new contract aligns with MIT\u2019s open scholarship goals in the<a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/publishing\/framework\/\"> MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts<\/a>, released in October 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3819,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions\/3819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}