The Royal Society

Umeå University researchers can publish open access at no cost in the Royal Society journals. Read more about the terms of our agreement with the publisher for 2026 and what it means for you here.

This is included in the agreement

The open access publishing fee (APC, article processing charge) has been pre-paid through an agreement between the Library and the publisher. The agreement applies when the corresponding author (i.e., the person communicating with the publisher and journal) is affiliated with Umeå University.

The agreement does not cover additional charges, such as page fees or colour illustration fees.

The agreement applies to articles submitted to the publisher in 2025 or 2026 (“submission date” in 2025–2026).

Journals and article types

The agreement applies to open access publishing in all hybrid and open access journals from Royal Society.

All article types are covered by the agreement.

See all journals included in this agreement

Choice of licence

Articles covered by the agreement are published with a CC BY licence.

Learn more about Creative Commons licences for researchers (Swedish National Library)

What you need to do

To use the agreement, you must:

be the corresponding author;
state a correct affiliation to Umeå University in the manuscript;
state Umeå University as your primary affiliation in the publisher submission system.

For the publisher to identify you as affiliated to Umeå University, you should use your university email address ending in @umu.se.

Good to know about the publishing process

Upon acceptance, when prompted to indicate method 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 on the Royal Society website:
Read & Publish for authors