The Royal Society

The open access publishing fee (APC, article processing charge) has been pre-paid through an agreement between the library and the Royal Society. The agreement applies to the Royal Society hybrid and open access journals.

Terms and conditions

• You must be the corresponding author, i.e., the one handling communication with the publisher and journal.
• Your Umeå University affiliation must be stated in the published article.
• You must use your university email ending with @umu.se in order to be identified as an Umeå University affiliated author.
• The agreement applies to articles with a 2024 submission date.
• Your article will be published under a CC BY license.

How the publishing process works

Upon acceptance, when prompted to indicate methods of payment, go to the heading "Article processing fees are covered by a special agreement" and choose "The corresponding author is part of a Read & Publish deal".

Read more about the publishing process at the Royal Society website:

Read & Publish for authors

Journals included in the agreement

• Biology Letters 
• Interface Focus
• Journal of the Royal Society Interface
• Notes and Records of the Royal Society
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 
• Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 
• Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 
• Open Biology (open access) 
• Royal Society Open Science (open access)