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Journals Catalogue 2021 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2021 3 Journals catalogue 2021 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2021 3 Contents About the Royal Society ............................................................. 4 A message from the Publishing Director ........................................ 5 Read & Publish ......................................................................... 6 What’s new .............................................................................. 8 Subject focus ........................................................................... 9 Published articles by discipline ................................................... 10 Published articles by origin ......................................................... 11 Working with authors ................................................................ 12 Readers, engagement and impact ............................................... 14 Open Access membership ......................................................... 16 The Royal Society Journals Archive ............................................. 18 Package A information ..............................................................20 Package B information ............................................................. 21 Package S information ..............................................................22 Our journals ...........................................................................23 Philosophical Transactions A ................................................24 Proceedings A....................................................................26 Interface ...........................................................................28 Interface Focus ..................................................................30 Philosophical Transactions B .................................................32 Proceedings B ....................................................................34 Biology Letters ...................................................................36 Open Biology .....................................................................38 Royal Society Open Science .................................................40 Notes and Records .............................................................42 Biographical Memoirs ..........................................................44 Single journal subscription prices ................................................46 Subscription essentials..............................................................48 Transparent pricing mechanism ..................................................49 How to order ...........................................................................49 Cover: © Robert Irwin. Sales contacts ........................................................................ 50 4 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2021 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2021 5 A message from the Publishing About the Royal Society Director of the Royal Society The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the In 2020 the practice and progress of science have been world’s most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, discussed by society more than ever before. Chief Scientific engineering, and medicine. The Society’s fundamental purpose, Advisors have become household names explaining the reflected in its founding Charters of the 1660s, is to recognise, mathematical models and practical public health measures promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the that affect all our lives at a time of pandemic. development and use of science for the benefit of humanity. As researchers all over the world were sent home from their labs The Fellowship includes over 60 Nobel Laureates. and university offices, the Royal Society continued to publish and disseminate research. We dropped our paywall on 24 March to Current Fellows and Foreign Members include Jocelyn Bell ensure uninterrupted access to articles for those off campus and Burnell, Tim Berners-Lee, Richard Dawkins, Joseph Stiglitz, we helped to set up a number of initiatives around Coronavirus Elizabeth Blackburn and Venki Ramakrishnan. Previous Fellows COVID-19 research, including rapid peer review and registered and Foreign Members include Charles Darwin, Paul Dirac, Albert reports. You can find an introduction to our resources on page 9. Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Dorothy Hodgkin, Isaac Newton, Ernest Rutherford and Christopher Wren. 2021 will no doubt see the continuation of this work, but we are also looking further into the future and continuing to develop both our individual journals and our overall approach to publishing. In 2021 we’ll be offering Read & Publish deals for the first time, and you can find details on page 6. Our open access memberships and subscriptions remain available, so that each library can choose the model that suits them best at this time of transition. We look forward to meeting librarians, research administrators and authors again when we can, and thank you for your continued support of our journals. Dr Stuart Taylor Publishing Director 6 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2021 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2021 7 Read & Publish Read & Publish (R&P) is a new way to purchase both content and For librarians: open access publishing. Institutions pay one tailored annual fee based • One simple annual fee tailored to your institution based on: on subscriptions and APC spend. This fee entitles researchers at the – current subscription spend institution to access our content and covers the publishing costs for – average APC spend over 2 years to stabilise peaks and troughs an unlimited number of papers. – Open Access membership fee if applicable A Read & Publish agreement will be most valuable for universities • Full access to journal articles that subscribe to our journals and have high levels of research output • Perpetual access to content published in a year when the deal published with us. was in place The agreement also creates the opportunity to publish open access • One-year deal reviewed and revised for following year. in subjects where funds for article processing charges have not been available. Our broad scope and cross disciplinary approach mean we can For researchers: accept papers in many different scientific subjects. • Only the corresponding author needs to belong to an institution with a R&P deal Royal Society publishing policies meet the guidelines set down by a range of major funders including the Wellcome Trust, Research England, • No fees or invoices, just pick your institution when you submit NIH, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, HHMI, UKRI, and the European • Uncapped OA publishing either across the portfolio or within Commission. All Royal Society journals are Plan S compliant. physical or life sciences. Contact us and we’ll calculate your tailored R&P price for 2021. [email protected] 8 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2021 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2021 9 What’s new Subject focus As the UK’s national science academy, we represent and support COVID-19 the entire range of science and work to promote best practice in The Royal Society is a signatory to the Wellcome statement on publication ethics and the assessment and dissemination of science. research findings and data relevant to the COVID-19 outbreak which aims to ensure that relevant research and data are shared We support the principles of open science and open data, including rapidly and openly. The statement asks that researchers share funder information through the Crossref Funder Registry, researcher interim and final data along with protocols and standards, both disambiguation through ORCID, version control through Crossmark, with the research community and the World Health Organisation. and preprint servers. We are working to implement open peer This is in order to inform the worldwide public health response review across our journals. and help save lives. We are committed to the accessibility of research and rapid A collection of relevant work published by the Royal Society communication and encourage researchers to deposit pre- can be found at: publication versions of articles in appropriate preprint repositories. royalsocietypublishing.org/topic/special-collections/novel- Open Biology, Royal Society Open Science, Biology Letters, coronavirus-outbreak Proceedings B and Journal of the Royal Society Interface now support submission of manuscripts directly from bioRxiv. Authors Theme issues include can transfer their manuscript information and metadata without • Multi-scale dynamics of infectious diseases having to re-upload files. • Modelling infectious disease outbreaks in humans, animals In Proceedings B the new Biology in Practice article type addresses and plants: epidemic forecasting and control new and broader scientific practices that influence research quality, • Emerging infections: what have we learnt from SARS? scientific community health, and the public understanding of science. Individual papers address many relevant topics including modelling the cost of vaccine uptake, viral spillover among mammals, and exploring psychological reactions to self-isolation. 10 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2021 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2021 11 PUBLISHED ARTICLES BY DISCIPLINE IN 2019 PUBLISHED ARTICLES BY ORIGIN IN 2019 1% 1% Europe 13% North America UK (inc Russia) 866 715 822 5% 5% 7% Total 2,784 China 256 2% 2% 56% South America 8% and Caribbean 27 170 50 Africa Asia (excl China) Astronomy Engineering and technology Biology Mathematics 46 154 Chemistry Physics Middle East, Australia and North Africa New Zealand Computer science Cross-disciplinary sciences and Turkey Earth sciences History
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