(22 Oct 2025) In August, the Royal Society announced plans to make our eight subscription journals open access (OA) on a Subscribe to Open (S2O) model in 2026. In doing so, the society will deliver equitable open access for thousands of authors and readers each year, with no APCs charged, and make the world’s oldest continuously published scholarly journal – Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society – free to read for everyone.
This post explains the why and how here.
