Journal access and Open Access publishing

Journals of the Royal Society of Chemistry available again

Maastricht University and MUMC+ students and staff can access the articles of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) journals again. Due to the contract termination between RSC and VSNU, we had limited access for more than a year. The current subscription runs until 2021.

Our subscription gives access to all the articles of the journals we subscribed to before the access to the 2018 and 2019 volumes was closed, including the previous volumes. We do not (yet) subscribe to recently launched RSC journals. Our current subscription runs until January 2021.

Read the complete post via UM Library and discover:

  • Why the license was terminated
  • What this means for open access publishing at RSC
  • How you can make use of green open access as an alternative

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