Transformative Agreements

The Royal Society launched transformative agreements to begin from 1 January 2021. These agreements allow researchers to publish with no APC fee at the point of use.

In addition to these agreements APC waivers are available for Royal Society Open Science and Open Biology for member countries of Research4Life. Free access to paywalled articles is available in over 100 countries.

Our standard transformative model is Read & Publish but we are also running some pilot projects structured in a different way. You can use the list of institutions below to see if you can publish with us at no cost. If you have any questions please get in touch: publishing@royalsociety.org.

Max Planck Institutions Publish and Read Pilot
Corresponding authors at any Max Planck institution are eligible to publish open access and for the APC to be covered centrally by Max Planck Digital Library. This applies to all articles submitted between 1 January and 31 December.

University of California shared funding model
Corresponding authors at the nine eligible UC institutions can publish open access and the APC will be split between the UC library and the author where they have funding. This applies to all articles accepted between 1 January and 31 December.

Read & Publish agreements
Read & Publish agreements enable corresponding authors to publish papers as open access without paying an article processing charge as the charges are covered by their library. If your institution is listed below you can publish open access with us for no fee.

For CAUL institutions in Australia and New Zealand and Vienna University, the Read & Publish agreement applies to all articles accepted between 1 January and 31 December of the year the agreement is in place.

For IReL institutions in the Republic of Ireland, the Read & Publish agreement applies to all articles published between 1 January and 31 December of the year the agreement is in place.

All other Read & Publish agreements apply to all articles submitted between 1 January and 31 December of the year the agreement is in place.

Agreements for 2021 and 2022:

United Kingdom		2021	2022
University of Bristol	UK	-	Yes
University of Southampton	UK	Yes	Yes
Bangor University	UK	Yes	Yes
Cardiff University	UK	Yes	Yes
Imperial College London	UK	-	Yes
Lancaster University	UK	Yes	Yes
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	UK	Yes	Yes
Loughborough University	UK	Yes	Yes
Newcastle University	UK	Yes	Yes
Open University	UK	Yes	Yes
Queens University Belfast	UK	Yes	Yes
Royal Veterinary College	UK	-	Yes
Swansea University	UK	-	Yes
University College London	UK	-	Yes
University of Aberdeen	UK	-	Yes
University of Bath	UK	-	Yes
University of Birmingham	UK	Yes	Yes
University of Cambridge	UK	Yes	Yes
University of Durham	UK	-	Yes
University of Edinburgh	UK	Yes	Yes
University of Essex	UK	-	Yes
University of Exeter	UK	-	Yes
University of Leeds	UK	-	Yes
University of Liverpool	UK	Yes	Yes
University of Manchester	UK	Yes	Yes
University of Nottingham	UK	-	Yes
University of Oxford	UK	Yes	Yes
University of Sheffield	UK	Yes	Yes
University of St Andrews	UK	Yes	Yes
University of Stirling	UK	Yes	Yes
University of Strathclyde	UK	Yes	Yes
University of Sussex	UK	Yes	Yes
University of Warwick	UK	-	Yes
Europe, Middle East & Turkey		2021	2022
Institute of Science and Technology Austria	Austria	Yes	Yes
University of Salzburg	Austria	Yes	Yes
University of Vienna	Austria	Yes	Yes
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet	Denmark	Yes	Yes
Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	Yes	Yes
TU Delft	Netherlands	-	Yes
Twente University	Netherlands	-	Yes
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	Germany	Yes	Yes
Dublin City University	Ireland	Yes	Yes
Maynooth University	Ireland	Yes	Yes
National University of Ireland Galway	Ireland	Yes	Yes
Royal College Surgeons in Ireland	Ireland	Yes	Yes
Technological University Dublin	Ireland	Yes	Yes
Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	Yes	Yes
University College Cork	Ireland	Yes	Yes
University College Dublin	Ireland	Yes	Yes
University of Limerick	Ireland	Yes	Yes
Higher Education Authority	Ireland	Yes	Yes
Science Foundation Ireland	Ireland	Yes	Yes
Teagasc	Ireland	Yes	Yes
Göteborgs Universitet	Sweden	Yes	Yes
Karolinska Institutet	Sweden	Yes	Yes
Kungl. Tekniska Högskolan	Sweden	Yes	Yes
Linköpings Universitet	Sweden	Yes	Yes
Lunds Universitet	Sweden	Yes	Yes
Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet	Sweden	Yes	Yes
Stockholms Universitet	Sweden	Yes	Yes
Umeå Universitet	Sweden	Yes	Yes
Uppsala Universitet	Sweden	Yes	Yes
Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology	Switzerland	Yes	Yes
Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology	Switzerland	Yes	Yes
PSI - Paul Scherrer Institute	Switzerland	Yes	Yes
WSL - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research	Switzerland	Yes	Yes
Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel	Yes	Yes
Tel-Aviv University	Israel	Yes	Yes
Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	Yes	Yes
University of Haifa	Israel	Yes	Yes
KAUST	Saudi Arabia	Yes	Yes
Bilkent University	Turkey	-	Yes
CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS - CSIC	Spain	-	Yes
Australia and New Zealand		2021	2022
CSIRO	Australia	Yes	Yes
Curtin University	Australia	Yes	Yes
Deakin University	Australia	Yes	Yes
James Cook University	Australia	-	Yes
La Trobe University	Australia	Yes	Yes
Macquarie University	Australia	Yes	Yes
Monash University	Australia	Yes	Yes
Murdoch University	Australia	Yes	Yes
QUT	Australia	Yes	Yes
University of Adelaide	Australia	-	Yes
University of Melbourne	Australia	-	Yes
University of Queensland	Australia	-	Yes
University of South Australia	Australia	-	Yes
University of Tasmania	Australia	-	Yes
University of Western Australia	Australia	-	Yes
Auckland University of Technology	New Zealand	Yes	Yes
Massey University	New Zealand	Yes	Yes
University of Auckland	New Zealand	-	Yes
University of Canterbury	New Zealand	Yes	Yes
University of Waikato	New Zealand	Yes	Yes
Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand	Yes	Yes
Africa		2021	2022
University of Cape Town	South Africa	-	Yes
University of Witwatersrand	South Africa	-	Yes
North America		2021	2022
Brock University	Canada	-	Yes
Dalhousie University	Canada	-	Yes
MacEwan University	Canada	-	Yes
Simon Fraser University	Canada	-	Yes
University of Saskatchewan	Canada	-	Yes
Western University	Canada	-	Yes
Iowa State University	USA	-	Yes
Montana State University	USA	Yes	Yes
North Carolina State University	USA	-	Yes
Syracuse University	USA	-	Yes
Swarthmore College	USA	-	Yes
Texas A&M University, including Galveston Campus	USA	Yes	Yes
The Ohio State University	USA	Yes	Yes
University of Chicago	USA	-	Yes
University of Colorado Boulder Libraries	USA	Yes	Yes
University of Florida	USA	Yes	Yes
University of Iowa	USA	Yes	Yes

If you are an author with a question about Read & Publish please email publishing@royalsociety.org.

If you are a librarian with a question about Read & Publish please email access@royalsociety.org.

If you are not covered by a transformative agreement you may still be eligible for help with APC costs through open access membership.