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For more information, please email Open Access Consultant Rebecca Ashworth.
Open Access Membership
Our Open Access Membership helps institutions to support researchers who are mandated to publish their research using the open access model. We offer a customised approach to each membership and a commitment to transparent pricing. We will continue to offer this option alongside our Read & Publish agreements.
The payment process is straightforward and manageable with reporting to help you keep track of your funds. Your researchers will receive up to 25% discount on article processing charges, making research grants and institutional open access funds stretch further. You’ll receive detailed reports on who from your institution is publishing with us. We’re committed to helping institutions publish as much as they can.
Each member institution pays an annual fee based on the number of open access articles it published in the Royal Society’s journals during the previous year. Authors affiliated to member institutions then receive a 25% discount on the article processing charge for publishing in any of our journals. This allows your institution to support open access publishing, and enables authors to publish at a substantially discounted rate.
We are committed to supporting open access, and offer institutions and authors a high level of flexibility to accommodate individual needs and requirements.
Open access agreements
Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL)
Authors at Max Planck institutions can now publish in all Royal Society journals at no cost through a new Publish and Read agreement with Max Planck Digital Library.
Technische Informationsbibliothek (TiB)
From 1 January 2020 authors submitting to our journals from eligible institutions from Technische Informationsbibliothek (TiB) in Germany will receive a discount on their APC.
All Read & Publish agreements can be found here. Check to see if your institution is listed.
Open access members
| TU Graz | Austria | Standard | |
| University of Helsinki | Finland | Standard | |
| EMBL | Germany | Standard | |
| Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) | Germany | Standard | |
| American University of Beirut | Lebanon | Standard | |
| Groningen University (RuG) and Groningen University Medical Centre (UMCG) |
Netherlands | Standard | |
| VU University Amsterdam |
Netherlands | Standard | |
| Wageningen University & Research |
Netherlands | Standard | |
| Oslo University | Norway | Standard | |
| Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | Sweden | Standard | |
| University of Basel | Switzerland | Standard | |
| University of Geneva | Switzerland | Standard | |
| Brunel University | United Kingdom | Standard | |
| Natural History Museum | United Kingdom | Standard | |
| University of Glasgow | United Kingdom | Standard | |
| University of Leicester | United Kingdom | Standard | |
| Queen Mary University of London | United Kingdom | Standard | |
| Michigan State University | United States of America | Standard | |
| MIT Libraries | United States of America | Standard | |
| University of Arizona | United States of America | Standard | |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst | United States of America | Standard | |
| University of Minnesota | United States of America | Standard | |
| Penn State University | United States of America | Standard |
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| Tufts University | United States of America | Standard | |
| Utah State University | United States of America | Standard | |
| Virginia Tech University | United States of America | Standard |
The Royal Society is a member of OASPA, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.
Find out more information on how to submit an article and about publishing open access with us.
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