Royal Society launches new open access membership programmes to encourage open access in scholarly communication
January 12, 2012
The
Royal Society has this week confirmed that it is at the leading edge of
open access in scientific publishing by launching two innovative new
open access membership programmes.
The
programmes allow institutions to support open access for their
researchers by giving them a discount of 25% when they publish open
access articles in the Royal Society’s renowned international scientific
journals.
The
new membership programmes acknowledge the growth of open access
publishing as well as the increasing number of open access articles
being published by scientists in the Royal Society’s journals.
The
two new membership programmes have aroused interest from UK and
international scientific institutions with three key Institutions
signing up already. The Excellence in Science Membership is relevant for institutions publishing across all areas of science and Open Biology Membership
for those who wish to just support researchers in the biological
sciences at the cellular and molecular level. Institutions are given a
personalised webpage on the Royal Society publishing site, showcasing
their research and linking through to the full text of the article.
Speaking
of the new membership programmes, Chair of the Royal Society Publishing
Board, Professor Mike Brady, FRS commented, “The Royal Society is
delighted to play such an active role in the future of open access
publishing with the launch of Open Biology and the two new
institutional membership programmes. Open access is an established
means of delivering important scientific information to researchers
wishing to access and publish content that is freely and openly
available on the web.”
The
Royal Society is one of the most ‘open access’ friendly of the
established science publishers and its journals cover the broad spectrum
of science from biology, physics through to mathematics, engineering
and multidisciplinary sciences.
In 2005, the Royal Society introduced its first open access publishing model EXIS Open Choice,
allowing authors to make their articles open-access via the payment of
an article-processing fee. Following this, the Royal Society recently
launched its first completely full open access journal Open Biology,
publishing original, high quality research in the field of cell and
molecular biology. All papers are made freely available under a Creative
Commons Attribution License permitting use, distribution and
reproduction, provided the original work is cited.
NOTES FOR EDITORS
- The Royal Society is the UK’s national academy of science. Founded in 1660, the Society has three roles, as a provider of independent scientific advice, as a learned Society, and as a funding agency. Our expertise is embodied in the Fellowship, which is made up of the finest scientists from the UK and beyond.
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