The Penn Libraries has a two-year (2024-2025) agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) for Penn authors to publish articles open access with no article processing fees (APCs). Charges other than the APC may still apply, and are not covered by this agreement. Please refer to individual journal submission guidelines.
- This agreement covers open access publication in RSC's hybrid and gold journals. Please see our Author Services Guide for more information on the types of open access.
- RSC's Journal Finder - by selecting "University of Pennsylvania" as your institution, you will be able to see which titles are eligible under this agreement.
- Articles must have a Penn-affiliated responsible corresponding author to be able to publish them in RSC journals without paying an article processing fee (APC).
- CHOP researchers cross-affiliated with Penn are eligible under our agreements but MUST select UPenn (and not CHOP) as their affiliation when submitting articles.
- All article types are covered.
- Authors have a choice to publish their accepted articles under a CC-BY 4.0 or CC-BY-NC 4.0 license.
- For more details on publishing open access and the author workflow please see RSC's How to Publish Open Access page.
