The South African National Library and Information Consortium (SANLiC) has negotiated a Transformative Agreements with the Publisher. 
3 year agreement from 2021-2023
The package includes allocated APC tokens for publishing in RSC hybrid journals.
The number of Open Access articles to be published for FREE in all hybrid journals for RU is:
2021 - 1
2022 - 1
2023 - 1
The eligible author must be the PRIMARY corresponding author as designated upon article submission.
Authors who do not qualify for articles to be published as OA for FREE shall be charged a 15% discount on the standard article processing charge (APC) to publish their article as an OA article.
The title list of the hybrid journals can be found in Schedule A of the license agreement. View the full title list here.
Contact the Research Office for your APC and Token queries
Read more: RUL Scholarly Communication: Transformative agreements
The Royal Society actively supports open access publishing through our gold open access journals, green open access policy, open access membership programme, and now through our transformative deals; Read & Publish agreements. This page helps librarians to understand the agreements and options, if you are a researcher then you'll find more relevant information at Read & Publish for researchers.
For more information on the Read & Publish model
