The University of Idaho Library has a transformative agreement in place with the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Benefits for U of I Affiliates:

• This agreement provides full-text access to all RSC Gold journals.
• This agreement also allows University of Idaho authors to publish up to 11 articles each calendar year without APCs. Allowances are as follows. See a list of Gold OA journals on the Royal Society of Chemistry’s APC Payments site.

Open-Access Publishing	APC Allowance	APC Savings
Hybrid OA APC	6	$18,750
Gold OA APC	3	$6,750
RSC Advances OA APC	2	$2,500
Total	11	$28,000

FAQs

Why is RSC Advances a separate OA APC?

RSC Advances is a separate eJournal because at first it was a hybrid eJournal(2013-2016). Then in 2017, it was flipped to OA and it was given a lower APC charge then the remaining Gold OA titles.

What is difference between hybrid and gold?

Hybrid eJournals are a subscription journal in which some of the articles are OA. Publishing OA within a hybrid eJournal requires an OA APC. All publications in Gold OA eJournals are freely available. Publishing within Gold OA requires an OA APC as well. The APC allowance allows prospective authors to publish in any of our 44 eJournals.