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
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
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 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 institutions in the Republic of Ireland Read & Publish agreements apply 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:
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United Kingdom |
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| University of St Andrews |
UK |
| Bangor University |
UK |
| University of Birmingham |
UK |
| University of Cambridge |
UK |
| Cardiff University |
UK |
| The University of Edinburgh |
UK |
| Lancaster University |
UK |
| Loughborough University |
UK |
| The University of Liverpool |
UK |
| The University of Manchester |
UK |
| Newcastle University |
UK |
| Open University |
UK |
| University of Oxford |
UK |
| University of Strathclyde |
UK |
| London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
UK |
| The University of Sheffield |
UK |
| University of Southampton |
UK |
| University of Stirling |
UK |
| University of Sussex |
UK |
| Queens University Belfast |
UK |
| Europe and the Middle East |
|
| Institute of Science and Technology Austria |
Austria |
| University of Salzburg |
Austria |
| University of Vienna |
Austria |
| Danmarks Tekniske Universitet |
Denmark |
| Eindhoven University of Technology |
Netherlands |
| Georg-August-Universität Göttingen |
Germany |
| Maynooth University |
Ireland |
| National University of Ireland Galway |
Ireland |
| Royal College Surgeons in Ireland |
Ireland |
| Technological University Dublin |
Ireland |
| Trinity College Dublin |
Ireland |
| University College Cork |
Ireland |
| University College Dublin |
Ireland |
| University of Limerick |
Ireland |
| Higher Education Authority |
Ireland |
| Science Foundation Ireland |
Ireland |
| Teagasc |
Ireland |
| Göteborgs Universitet |
Sweden |
| Karolinska Institutet |
Sweden |
| Kungl. Tekniska Högskolan |
Sweden |
| Linköpings Universitet |
Sweden |
| Lunds Universitet |
Sweden |
| Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet |
Sweden |
| Stockholms Universitet |
Sweden |
| Umeå Universitet |
Sweden |
| Uppsala Universitet |
Sweden |
Lib4RI – Library for the Research Institutes within the ETH Domain:
Eawag, Empa, PSI & WSL |
Switzerland |
| Weizmann Institute of Science |
Israel |
| Tel-Aviv University |
Israel |
| Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Israel |
| University of Haifa |
Israel |
| KAUST |
Saudi Arabia |
| Australia and New Zealand |
|
| CSIRO |
Australia |
| Deakin University |
Australia |
| La Trobe University |
Australia |
| Macquarie University |
Australia |
| Monash University |
Australia |
| Murdoch University |
Australia |
| QUT |
Australia |
| University of Canterbury |
New Zealand |
| University of Waikato |
New Zealand |
| Victoria University of Wellington |
New Zealand |
| Massey University |
New Zealand |
| Auckland University of Technology |
New Zealand |
| United States of America |
|
| University of Colorado Boulder Libraries |
USA |
| University of Florida |
USA |
| University of Iowa |
USA |
| Montana State University |
USA |
| The Ohio State University |
USA |
| Texas A&M University |
USA |
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.