Royal Society of Chemistry partners with ResearchGate to promote open access

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Society hopes to reach a wide range of researchers, beyond the 1.5 million chemists worldwide who use the academic social networking site

All of the RSC’s open access journals will be available through the popular academic social networking site ResearchGate, under an agreement announced on 20 April. The new collaboration follows the RSC’s commitment last year to transition to a wholly open access (OA) publishing model within five years.

The approximately 1.5 million chemical scientists who use ResearchGate globally will now be able to access these publications. Through the arrangement, all version-of-record content from the RSC’s eight newly launched OA journals will be syndicated directly to ResearchGate