Website: http://royalsocietypublishing.org/
Email: RoyalSociety@accucoms.com
Founded in 1660, The Royal Society is the national academy of sciences of the UK and the Commonwealth. The Society plays an influential role in national and international science policy and is dedicated to promoting excellence in science. Fellows and Foreign Members, who are elected for life on the basis of scientific excellence, have included Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Dorothy Hodgkin, Francis Crick, James Watson and Stephen Hawking. Today there are approximately 1,500 Fellows and Foreign Members, including more than 70 Nobel Laureates.
The Royal Society publishes seven, high quality peer-reviewed journals covering: biological, cross disciplinary and physical sciences; history and philosophy of science; and cross-disciplinary research. The Royal Society is a member of Crossref and guarantees perpetual access to its articles in electronic format.
- Sophisticated searching facilities and individual article DOIs from 1665
- Online content available up to 12 weeks prior to print
- Counter 3/ SUSHI compliant usage stats
- Up to 15% discount on usual subscription prices
All journals are available in both print and online versions and the subscribers may access fully citable articles up to 10 weeks before publication of the printed journal issue through FirstCite,® the Royal Society’s Early Online Publishing service.
Journal Packages
The eight journals published by the Royal Society are available as single subscriptions or included in the following packages that come with free online access to the relevant online archive dating back to 1665.
Package S: The complete Excellence in Science Collection beginning 1665
Includes 8 journals, available online only or print + online:
- Biology Letters
- Journal of the Royal Society Interface
- Interface Focus
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Notes and Records of the Royal Society
Package A: The Physical Sciences Collection beginning 1665
Includes 4 journals, available online only or print + online:
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences
- Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences
- Journal of the Royal Society Interface
- Interface Focus
Package B: The Biological Sciences Collections beginning 1665
Includes 5 journals, available online only or print + online:
- Biology Letters
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Journal of the Royal Society Interface
- Interface Focus
Package H: The History of Science Collection
Includes 2 journals, available online only or print+online:
- Notes and Records of the Royal Society
- Biographical Memoirs
Consortial Policy
The Royal Society is available to negotiate agreements with national and local consortia, offering customized pricing that takes into consideration multiple factors such as the number of sites involved, with the objective to increase the availability of peer-reviewed content amongst the scientific community.
These are some of the standard parameters used:
- Multiple years contract for three years
- Fixed price cap for the duration of the contract, lower than the standard yearly increase from the publisher’s catalogue
- Deeply Discounted Price for print subscriptions
- Perpetual Access guaranteed after the termination of contract
- “Opt-out” clause in case of superior or irresistible force (force majeure)
Impact Factors
The 2009 Impact Factors show that Royal Society journals have performed very well.
Proceedings B, Interface and Biology Letters all achieved very impressive increases. Interface climbed above 4.0 for the first time and is back in fourth place once again (behind Science, Nature and PNAS), whilst Biology Letters continued the steep rise it has shown every year since it was launched in 2005.
Philosophical Transactions B
2009 Impact Factor 5.117, ranked 6th in Biology (5.556 in 2008, ranked 5th)
Proceedings B
2009 Impact Factor 4.857, ranked 7th in Biology (4.248 in 2008, ranked 8th)
Biology Letters
2009 Impact Factor 3.521, ranked 14th in Biology (3.0 in 2008, ranked 15th)
Philosophical Transactions A
2009 Impact Factor 2.295, ranked 9th in Multidisciplinary Sciences (2.282 in 2008, ranked 9th)
Proceedings A
2009 Impact Factor 1.702, ranked 10th in Multidisciplinary Sciences (1.705 in 2008, ranked 13th)
Journal of the Royal Society Interface
2009 Impact Factor 4.241, ranked 4th in Multidisciplinary Sciences (3.621 in 2008, ranked 6th)
Notes and Records of the Royal Society
2009 Impact Factor 0.405, ranked 26th in History of Science (0.225 in 2008, ranked 33rd)
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