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Licence to publish

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As a condition of submission, we ask authors to agree to the terms and conditions set out in our licence to publish.

Standard licence to publish: download PDF

Open access licence to publish: download PDF

Authors submitting to Open Biology and Royal Society Open Science will be asked to agree to the open access licence.

Authors submitting to other Royal Society journals will be asked to agree to our standard licence by default. If and when an author chooses to publish their paper as open access, they are asked to agree to the open access licence. 

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