Journals catalogue 2020 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2020 3 Contents A message from the Publishing Director of the Royal Society ............ 4 About the Royal Society ............................................................. 5 Benefits of subscribing to Royal Society journals ............................. 6 What we publish ....................................................................... 8 Our Authors ............................................................................. 9 Transparent pricing mechanism .................................................. 10 How to order ............................................................................ 11 Single journal subscription pricing ............................................... 12 Combined journal subscription pricing ......................................... 14 Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences .......................... 18 Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences ..........................20 Journal of the Royal Society Interface ..........................................22 Interface Focus ........................................................................24 Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences ..........................26 Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences ..................28 Biology Letters ........................................................................30 Open Biology ..........................................................................32 Royal Society Open Science ......................................................34 Notes and Records ...................................................................36 Biographical Memoirs ...............................................................38 Journals Archive ......................................................................40 Open Access Membership .........................................................42 Royal Society sales contacts ......................................................44 Cover: © LouisHiemstra. 4 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2020 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2020 5 A message from the Publishing Director of the Royal Society About the Royal Society 2020 sees exciting changes to journals from the Royal The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of Society amidst wider developments in European journal many of the world’s most distinguished scientists drawn publishing as we prepare for the implementation phase from all areas of science, engineering, and medicine. of the proposed Plan S. The Society’s fundamental purpose, reflected in its founding Charters of the 1660s, is to recognise, promote, Biographical Memoirs will be freely available online and support excellence in science and to encourage the from January 2020 and three of our journals, Interface, development and use of science for the benefit Interface Focus, and Biology Letters move to online only. of humanity. This catalogue details subscriptions and package prices The Fellowship includes over 60 Nobel Laureates. for the coming year. Our transparent pricing mechanism continues to ensure value for libraries by avoiding Current Fellows and Foreign Members include Jocelyn ‘double dipping’ and our open access membership Bell Burnell, Tim Berners-Lee, Richard Dawkins, Joseph programme enables librarians to support open access Stiglitz, James Watson and Paul Nurse. publishing at their institution. Previous Fellows and Foreign Members include Charles Our commitment to cross-disciplinary content and theme Darwin, Paul Dirac, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, issues on important topics makes Royal Society journals Dorothy Hodgkin, Isaac Newton, Ernest Rutherford and essential for major universities around the world. Papers Christopher Wren. published in Royal Society journals are widely reported in the mainstream press, contributing to the international conversation about science and research. Thank you for your continued support of our publications. Dr Stuart Taylor Publishing Director 6 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2020 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2020 7 Scientific journals from the Royal Society Features to create the best possible experience for academic readers include: • articles continually published online with final pagination to enable immediate citation • persistent reference hyperlinks on all articles through Digital Object Identifiers • continuous online publication, immediately accessible as HTML or PDF • CrossRef persistent hyperlinks in references; permanent navigation to and from cited and ‘cited by’ articles Subscriptions to Royal Society journals are available as individual • CrossMark to guarantee readers that they are accessing the latest titles; in subject-focussed packages for physical or biological version of any article sciences; or as one complete package. • sophisticated search functionalities and new issue and content alerts Packages cover both interdisciplinary and specific subject areas and • all content is deposited in both CLOCKSS and PORTICO to ensure long provide access to our extensive new digital journal archive. term preservation of our content in all eventualities. • Perpetual access for the year you have subscribed to Librarians can evaluate subscriptions with easy to manage accounts, online IP registrations and COUNTER 5 usage statistics. • Pay for one year; also gain access to the previous nine years content while your subscription is active Journals are indexed by major abstracting services including ISI Web of Science, Scitopia, Journal Citation Reports, PubMed and Scopus to • Free access to online archive content from 1665. enable the widest possible discoverability. 8 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2020 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2020 9 We publish all of science From across the globe Founded and governed by scientists, our publishing is led by In 2018 our authors came from 70 different countries, with cutting edge research, whatever its topic or focus. Our inclusive numerous papers from Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, approach allows us to publish research at the forefront of scientific India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, investigation; work that may be the foundation of an entirely Spain, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States new field. of America. Our rich and varied content includes highly relevant and specific Researchers are attracted by our fast and easy submissions articles of interest to researchers in all disciplines. But in keeping process, our long history of scholarly publishing, and the trust we with the mission of the society, our focus is on ground breaking inspire as the organisation that laid the foundation for modern concepts, revolutionary hypotheses and brand new ideas born peer review. Our international editorial boards reflect the breadth of cross-disciplinary thinking and discussion between expert, of science being carried out across the world. dedicated researchers. Themed issues guest edited by authorities in a particular field of study bring together leading authors. Open submissions for journals that are broad in scope create a home for cross-disciplinary and new work. PUBLISHED ARTICLES BY DISCIPLINE SUBMISSIONS BY ORIGIN 1% 1% Astronomy 13% 23% UK 10% Biology 6% Europe 6% Chemistry North America 1% 5% Computer science 1% Australaisa South America and Caribbean Earth sciences 2% 7% Engineering and technology Africa 6% Mathematics Middle East and North Africa 4% Physics Asia 2% Cross-disciplinary sciences Mainland China 53% 25% 12% History of science 24% 10 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2020 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2020 11 Transparent pricing mechanism How to order In 2012, we introduced a transparent pricing mechanism that All Royal Society subscriptions and book orders are administered accounts for the impact of Open Access (OA) content and its by Turpin Distribution. ‘author / funder pays’ revenue. This ensures that we are not paid both a subscription and an article publication charge (APC) fee You can order from your preferred library vendor, or directly with for the same article. If the percentage of non-OA articles drops so Turpin Distribution on: will the price. W ebiz.turpin-distribution.com First we estimated cost inflation based upon the current Retail Price E [email protected] Index (RPI) at 3.0 percent. T +44 1767 604 951 F +44 1767 601 640 Then we took account of the recent percentage change in non-OA articles published. Or see pages 42 – 43 for your local sales representative. For 2020 prices, we did this by looking at two rolling three year Contact us periods, which were 2015 – 2017 and 2016 – 2018. We excluded For information regarding a current subscription, corporate pricing, paid OA articles in our calculations and also any one-off rises in renewals or multi-site and consortia subscriptions please contact content to clear a backlog as these are temporary changes. [email protected] Here a cap of +/- 15 percent protects the subscription prices from fluctuating too suddenly for librarians. There were no other economic factors to take into account. Full transparency, pricing information and all figures can be found at royalsociety.org/journals 12 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2020 JOURNALS CATALOGUE 2020 13 Single journal subscription Single journal subscription Academic online only prices 2020 Academic combined print and online prices 2020 Journal £UK/ €Europe $US/ Journal £UK/ €Europe $US/ Rest of Canada Rest of Canada World World Philosophical Transactions of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal