Open Access Publishing Agreements: The Royal Society
Discover the current open access publishing agreements in place, allowing options for publishing research open access at no cost to the author.
Agreement details
The IReL-Royal Society agreement allows eligible corresponding authors in participating institutions to publish original research open access upon publication at no extra cost from 1 March 2021 – 31 December 2025.
Eligible journals:
The ROYAL SOCIETY PUBLISH & READ agreement 2021-2023 allows corresponding authors from participating institutions to publish open access in these journals:
- Biology Letters
- Interface Focus
- Journal of the Royal Society Interface
- Notes and Records of the Royal Society
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
- Proceedings of the Royal Society A
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B
- Open Biology
- Royal Society Open Science
It also provides read access to these titles:
- Journal of Royal Society Interface
- Interface Focus
- Philosophical Transactions A
- Proceedings A
- Philosophical Transactions B
- Proceedings B
- Biology Letters
- Notes and Records
Instructions for authors
Royal Society aim to provide straightforward publishing with Royal Society Read and Publish. They have provided the following instructions on for authors submitting articles: Author Journey.
Further information
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