[Irtalk] FW: The Royal Society welcomes leading institutions to its Open Access Membership Programme

[Smith, Ina <ismith@sun.ac.za>]

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Subject: The Royal Society welcomes leading institutions to its Open Access Membership Programme

From: "Romano, Maria" <maria.romano at royalsociety.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:03:17 +0100

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The Royal Society welcomes leading institutions to its Open Access Membership Programme
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The growing number of members since its launch early last year demonstrates the success of the Royal Society’s Open Access Membership Programme<http://royalsocietypublishing.org/site/librarians/membership.xhtml>,
as University of Cambridge, MIT and The University of Melbourne have joined the programme along with 30 other institutions → <http://royalsocietypublishing.org/site/librarians/allmembers.xhtml>.

The programme enables participating organisations to decrease the cost of the article processing charge to their authors by 25%, along with further promoting its open access publications and research output.

Institutions choosing to affiliate themselves to the prestigious charity and support its open access initiatives can find out more by visiting our membership webpages<http://royalsocietypublishing.org/site/librarians/membership.xhtml>.

For more information on how your institution can support its researchers with discounted open access article processing charges, please contact marianne.haska at royalsociety.org.

In keeping with its role as the UK's national academy of science, The Royal Society<http://royalsociety.org/> is committed to the widest possible dissemination of research outputs. Hence since 2006, any article can be published in open access under a Creative Commons license<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/> in any of its prestigious journals<http://royalsocietypublishing.org/journals>,
including the fully gold journal Open
Biology<http://rsob.royalsocietypublishing.org/>.

Remaining a fair player, The Royal Society ensures that published open access articles bearing a publication fee are deducted from subscription prices through its Transparent Pricing Mechanism <http://royalsocietypublishing.org/site/librarians/transparent_pricing.xhtml>.

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About the Royal Society
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The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world’s most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering, and medicine. The Society’s fundamental purpose, as it has been since its foundation in 1660, is to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.

The Society’s strategic priorities emphasise its commitment to the highest quality science, to curiosity-driven research, and to the development and use of science for the benefit of society. These priorities are:

1.       Promoting science and its benefits

2.       Recognising excellence in science

3.       Supporting outstanding science

4.       Providing scientific advice for policy

5.       Fostering international and global cooperation

6.       Education and public engagement

For further information please visit http://royalsociety.org or http://royalsocietypublishing.org.

Follow Royal Society Publishing on Twitter at http://twitter.com/RSocPublishing or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/RoyalSocietyPublishing.FanPage.

Regards,
Sana Kazmi
Institutional Marketing Manager
The Royal Society
6-9 Carlton House Terrace
London SW1Y 5AG
royalsocietypublishing.org

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