Our Read & Publish customers can access Royal Society journal content and accepted articles are published open access with no article processing charges (APC) fees to pay at the point of use. Over 685 institutions have taken advantage of this simplified process for their researchers and signed a transformative agreement with us for 2026.
This page helps librarians to understand the agreements. If you are a researcher, then you'll find more relevant information at Read & Publish for authors.
Moving to a Read & Publish agreement
If your institution subscribes to our journals and your researchers regularly publish with us, you may well gain extra value from moving to a Read & Publish model. And if your researchers have found that APCs have been a barrier to publication, then a transformative agreement means you can support them to publish in our high impact, well respected journals.
For researchers:
- only the corresponding author needs to belong to an institution with a Read & Publish deal
- no fees or invoices, they just pick their institution when they submit
- uncapped open access publishing either across the portfolio or within physical or life sciences
For librarians:
- one simple annual fee
- full access to journal articles
- APC fees
- perpetual access to content published in a year when the deal was in place
- multi year deals available to help with budget planning
Contact us and we’ll be happy to calculate your tailored Read & Publish agreement cost.
Library partners in the UK can also look at details of our offer through .
Enabling researchers to cover APCs
Many researchers must publish open access as part of their funding agreement. You may have researchers at your institution who have wanted to publish open access but not been able to raise the funds to cover an APC. Because our scope is so broad, a Read & Publish agreement with 蘑菇视频 allows these researchers to publish open access in subjects where this has previously been very difficult. We publish across all of science including Astronomy, Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Earth and Environmental Science, Ecology, Conservation, Engineering, Genetics and Genomics, Mathematics, Evolutionary Biology, Physics and Biophysics, Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, and over a hundred other scientific subjects. And there’s our History of Science of journal; Notes and Records.
A transparent model
For several years our transparent pricing model has prevented us from ’double dipping’ subscription and open access income. We’re committed to providing a fair deal for our library partners and authors. Based on market research with librarians and library consortia we have created a model that is simple to understand and provides the features librarians and researchers have told us are important.
Ethical principles
We are a founding member of ; a group of likeminded, not-for-profit learned societies, community publishers and charities who share the common ambition to see an orderly and sustainable transition to open scholarship. Our Read & Publish agreements follow the following principles.
Supporting open access publishing
蘑菇视频 actively supports open access publishing through our gold open access journals, Subscribe to Open, Open Access Membership and through our Read & Publish agreements. Royal Society publishing policies meet the guidelines set down by a range of major funders including the Wellcome Trust, Research England, NIH, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, HHMI, UKRI, and the European Commission. All Royal Society journals are Plan S compliant.
