Information on Transformative Agreements (also known as "Read and Publish" agreements) RIT Libraries has entered into; as well as any other publishing discounts that my apply to RIT affiliates.
Article Processing Charge waived: Corresponding authors affiliated with RIT may publish open access at no cost in journals covered by this agreement.
NOTE: This benefit is capped at 14 publications per year, beginning each January. We will be monitoring the number of publications throughout the year.
Article Types: Original paper, Review paper, Brief Communication, Continuing Education
Journals covered: This agreement covers open access publications in Springer, Palgrave, and Adis journals on Springer Nature Link and "Academic Journals" on nature.com. This agreement does NOT include Nature.
Upon your article's acceptance, authors will be asked to identify themselves by one of three data elements: selected institution, institutional email, or location.
Author will receive confirmation that they can publish the article open access with the fees waived.
Author will be asked to agree to a creative commons license on behalf of all co-authors. CC-BY is most commonly used, but other licenses are available on request.
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