Publishing your funded research open access with the Geological Society
The Geological Society offers routes to open access publication that comply with the UKRI Open Access policy and those of funders globally.
You can publish your final article open access in the Geological Society’s fully open access journal Earth Science, Systems and Society or open access book series GeoHorizons (co-owned with AGU)
Earth Science, Systems and Society is a fully open access journal and GeoHorizons is a fully open access book series. If your article, chapter or entire book is accepted in these titles then your version of record will be made immediately open access with a Creative Commons attribution (CC BY) licence. You can pay for the article processing charge (APC) or book publishing charge (BPC), or your institution may have an institutional Read and Publish agreement which will waive these costs. There is also a programme of discounts and waivers. Find out more here: ES3 and GeoHorizons
You can publish your final article open access in all of the Geological Society’s hybrid journals and books using a Read and Publish agreement
If the corresponding author of your article is at an institution with a Lyell Collection Read and Publish agreement then you are able to publish in any of the Geological Society’s journals and books. If your article is accepted then your version of record will be made immediately open access with a Creative Commons attribution (CC BY) licence. The APC will be waived and agreements are uncapped so you do not need to worry about them running out in a given year.
Read and Publish agreements offer read access to the full Lyell Collection with over 320,000 pages of research.
Find out if your institution has a Read and Publish agreement here: Read and Publish agreements
You can publish your final article open access in the Geological Society’s hybrid journals and books by paying an article processing charge (APC)
If your article is accepted in a journal or book in the Lyell Collection then your version of record will be made immediately open access with a cCreative Ccommons attribution (CC BY) licence upon payment of an APC. You can pay for the APC or if your institution has a Read and Publish agreement the APC is waived.
Please contact the Editorial Office by email if you are unable to publish by any of these routes
The Geological Society is actively pursuing sustainable opportunities that meet the open access needs of our community to ensure we continue to fund the Society’s charitable activities. The routes to open access publication outlined above best ensure a full and viable transition to open access for the Society, and authors are encouraged to use these where they can. All UKRI-funded authors are able to publish with the Geological Society so please contact us by email so we can advise you.