(16 Feb 2026) The Royal Society is pleased to confirm that its eight world-class subscription journals will be published as open access in 2026 as libraries support its Subscribe to Open (S2O) strategy. This means new research published in leading journals like Proceedings of the Royal Society and Philosophical Transactions – the world’s oldest scientific…
(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…
(6 Aug 2025) The Royal Society has agreed plans that would make its journals fully open access in 2026 by adopting the ‘Subscribe to Open’ model. Under plans agreed in July 2025, libraries subscribed to Royal Society journals will now be asked to support Subscribe to Open in 2026 through their subscriptions. If sufficient libraries…
(28 September 2018) A recent paper in Philosophical Transactions B looking at the impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration has achieved The Royal Society’s highest Altmetric score to date in a very short time. Here we look at the background to this paper and ask what we learn from this. The study by…
(7 September 2016) figshare has announced a partnership with Royal Society to showcase the data from eleven of their publications. Aggregated under one URL rs.figshare.com, each journal will also have its own sub portal. These new portals will increase the discoverability of their data and give them a wider oversight of what is referenced in their journals. The Royal Society is a…