Royal Society of Chemistry Insight and Outlook A Review of the Royal Society of Chemistry s Open Access Program Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest, 12th September 2016 Claudia Heidrich Sales Executive Central & Eastern Europe
Agenda About the Royal Society of Chemistry ( RSC) RSC and Open Access Gold for Gold Programme Insight RSC s OA Outlook
Royal Society of Chemistry ( RSC ) Founded in 1841 One of the largest organisations for advancing the chemical sciences Not-for-profit Organisation with a worldwide network of over 54,000 members Internationally acclaimed publishing business Washington D.C. & Philadelphia London & Cambrid ge São Paulo Berlin Bangal ore Beijing & Shanghai Tokyo
RSC s Activities International not-for profit Publisher Learned Society Charity Education Facilitator Conferences & Events RSC Activities Science Policy - campaigning organisation Professional Body Qualifications Library and Information Centre Global Membership Organisation
Our Journals We publish 41 hybrid Journals classical subscription Journals journal articles are made Open Access on payment of an APC 1 Open Access Journal + 1 sponsored Journal We publish about 43,000 articles per year. IF 8.5 IF 25.42 IF 10.98 IF 34.09
Our Open Access Policies Gold OA Options Gold OA journal: Chemical Science (APC waiver until end 2017) All other journals gold OA option - APC 1,600 (full paper) Green OA Options Allow authors to deposit accepted manuscript version in a noncommercial repository Embargo period of 12 months applies Automatic deposition in CSAR
RSC Gold Package subscribers are provided with Voucher Codes for authors to publish Gold OA free of charge 1 Voucher Code per 1600 subscription price ( example 16,000 subscription price/ 1600= 10 Voucher Codes ) Vouchers can be used in all RSC Journals
Results In 2015 10,000 Vouchers issued In over 40 countries Over 700 customers qualified for this project 12000 10000 8000 6000 4000 2000 0 35% 29 % 32% 6751 5204 3024 3613 2489 1238 2013 2014 2015 Gold 4 Gold Voucher used Gold 4 Gold Voucher expired
Top 10 Countries Number of used G4G Vouchers Switzerland; 115 Netherlands; 129 Australia; 158 Sweden; 100 India; 187 Germany; 929 Spain; 189 Japan; 203 United States; 279 United Kingdom; 481
Top 10 Institutions G4G Voucher User Institution G4G Voucher used Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science 116 Saechsische Landesbibliothek Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) 39 Technische Universitaet Muenchen 33 Kyoto University 31 University of Tokyo 31 Bhabha Atomic Research Centre 29 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune 29 Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 29 Nanyang Technological University 28 Tokyo Institute of Technology 28
Open Access Articles in Relation 50000 45000 40000 35000 30000 25000 20000 15000 10000 5000 0 RSC Publications 43773 36117 27237 3613 1238 2490 339 100 232 2013 2014 2015 Articles Published Open Access with Gold 4 Gold Voucher Open Access paid APC For 0,7% of all RSC Articles an APC was paid
Gold for Gold is it a success? introduce the Open Access road to researchers without extra costs initiated discussion on Open Access in chemical sciences Opportunity for librarians to experiment with OA
Outlook Gold for Gold will be discontinued in 2017 Concentrate more on the development of Open Access Products Cover costs for Chemical Science for another year Flip another successful RSC Journal and discount the APC s ( APC 750; discounted for 2 years 500) Develop sustainable OA transformation models ( output based)
Article Input from Hungarian Authors in RSC Journals ( corresponding authors only ) 160 140 120 100 80 60 Article Submissions Publications 40 20 0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Article Input from Hungarian Authors in 2015 ( corresponding and co-authors ) Institution Count of Authors 323 Authors 118 Articles 41 are OA Debreceni Egyetem 51 Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem 46 Budapesti Muszaki es Gazdasagtudomanyi Egyetem 35 Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia 95 Pannon Egyetem 16 Semmelweis Egyetem 14 Eotvos Lorand Tudomanyegyetem 16 Pecsi Tudomanyegyetem 6
No of Articles Article Input from Hungary in other Chemistry Journals 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 - No of Articles per Publisher 2010-2015 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 ACS ELSEVIER OTHER RSC WILEY RSC Business Intelligence Publisher 2012 2013 2014 2015 ACS 139 155 140 139 ELSEVIER 93 113 90 105 OTHER 29 32 16 21 RSC 61 59 104 112 WILEY 103 95 96 112 Grand Total 425 454 446 489
Outlook for Hungary EISZ Consortium Offer with an Open Access component Inform authors about RSC Advances Help promoting and sharing information about OA among your chemists
Claudia Heidrich heidrichc@rsc.org Thank you! Questions?