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 of the Royal Society include mathematician and physicist Stephen Hawking; IVF and stem cell research pioneer Anne McLaren and inventor of the worldwide web, Tim Berners-Lee.

The Royal Society publishes seven, high quality peer-reviewed journals covering: biological and physical sciences; history and philosophy of science; and cross-disciplinary research at the interface between the physical and life sciences.

The Royal Society is a member of Crossref and guarantees perpetual access to its articles in electronic format.

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 seven journals published by the Royal Society are available as single subscriptions or incuded in the following packages that come with free online access to content dating back to 1665.

Package S: The complete Excellence in Science Collection beginning 1665
Includes 7 journals, print+ online:

• Journal of the Royal Society Interface
• Biology Letters
• Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
• Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Notes and Records of the Royal Society

Package A: The Physical Sciences Collection beginning 1665
Includes 3 journals, print + online:

• Journal of the Royal Society Interface
• Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences.

Package B: The Biological Sciences Collections beginning 1665
Includes 4 journals, print + online:

• Journal of the Royal Society Interface
• Biology Letters
• Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

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)

For further information, quotations, contracts, trial activation and technical support please contact us through the queries and customer service forms.