Get the best from your subscription or agreement
Account management
Many routine tasks can be done through the librarian’s administration area of the Silverchair platform. If you have forgotten your password, please use the forgotten password function. If you need help accessing your account, please email access@royalsociety.org.
Our account management page provides information and downloads for librarians to help you get the best from your subscription, agreement or membership. Find useful information on IP range, usage reporting and Shibboleth. You can also and fill in our IP registration form.
Indexing
Journals are indexed by major abstracting services including Web of Science, Scitopia, Journal Citation Reports, PubMed, INSPEC and Scopus to enable the widest possible discoverability.
All our journals have been syndicated to ResearchGate, increasing the visibility and accessibility of Royal Society articles. Institutional access is automatically applied depending on the reader’s profile.
Open access reporting
We’re using OA Switchboard to monitor and report on open access articles from institutions who have a Read & Publish agreement with us. Read & Publish partners can sign up to the service and generate useful reports that cover publishers they have an agreement with.
Contact us
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Resources for librarians
Outreach programme
We are passionate about having open communication with our authors and the scientific community. We operate a flexible and adaptable programme of outreach events across a variety of topics in scientific publishing, including open access and promoting publishing agreements to researchers. For more details and to find out how to get in touch, please visit our outreach page.
Author support
The Royal Society journals are committed to high quality, open and ethical publishing.
To make publishing with us as straightforward as possible, we have a range of author resources and guides including author journeys for publishing open access in our gold journals and our subscription journals.
Spreading the word
Alert researchers at your institution to the benefits of your subscription, agreement or membership by downloading and circulating these flyers:
- All of science flyer (PDF) - for subscribers to Package S - covering both physical and biological sciences
- Physical sciences flyer (PDF) - for subscribers to Package A - Mathematics, Physics, Engineering and Physical science faculties
- Biological sciences flyer (PDF) - for subscribers to Package B - Biology, Health, Medicine and Medical schools
- Read & Publish flyer (PDF) - let your researchers know your institution has a Read & Publish agreement
- Open Access Membership flyer (PDF) - let your researchers know your institution has Open Access Membership