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CWRU Open Access Agreements and Other Funding

CWRU authors are able to publish open access at no cost in select journals through agreements with several publishers. This guide provides details on each agreement for CWRU authors as well as alternative no cost options and funding possibilities..

Agreement Details

Starting January 1, 2024, students, faculty, and staff at CWRU will have access to articles published in 38 journals published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). An important new component of this agreement is the ability for CWRU authors to publish open access (OA) journal articles in RCS journals at no additional charge to the author.

Access to the publishing benefits begins on January 1, 2024, and continues through December 31, 2026. This means that to publish an article as open access without paying any Article Publication Charge (APC), the article to be published must be accepted for publication after January 1, 2024, and on or before December 31, 2026.