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Open Access Membership for librarians
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For more information, please email Open Access Consultant Rebecca Ashworth.
Open Access Membership
Royal Society Open Access Membership allows researchers to publish open access in any Royal Society journal with a 25% discount on APCs. A list of institutions with Open Access Membership can be found below.
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 members
A list of institutions with Open Access Membership can be found in the table. Check your institutional link for your eligibility criteria.
Open access agreements
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.
Transformative agreements
Royal Society transformative agreements allow researchers to publish open access in any Royal Society journal with no APC fee at the point of use. A list of transformative agreements between universities and the Royal Society can be found here. If you are a librarian with a question about transformative agreements, please visit Read & Publish for librarians or email access@royalsociety.org.