Royal Society

DTU Library has in 2025 entered into a one-year agreement with the publisher Royal Society which includes publishing Open Access in all Royal Society journals.

The agreement with Royal Society covers accepted articles from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025.

There is no cap (limit) on the number of Open Access articles that can be published in the journals which are covered by agreement.

As corresponding author, it is vital that when submit your research article that you notify that the article will be published as Open Access under the Danish agreement.

When submitting your research article, it is important that you choose DTU as your affiliated institution and that you use your corresponding DTU-mail address, so that you can publish under the agreement.

Use your DTU e-mail as the corresponding author
State DTU as your institutional affiliation (Technical University of Denmark)
Select Open Access to publish your article without a publication fee
Choose a Creative Commons license
If it is possible to choose between different CC-licenses, then you are encouraged to select a CC BY 4.0 license which is the least restrictive license in the CC-portfolio.

The corresponding author that has accepted the manuscript, must be employed or studying at the institution which he or she has credited – in this case DTU.
It is possible for the corresponding author to have multiple or several places of employment, so long that one of these places of employment is at an institution which is a part of the applicable agreement, and that the institution in question, is explicitly credited – in this case DTU.
Examples of multiple places of employment: a university and a hospital, a university and a corporation, two different universities.
Only the corresponding author´s association to DTU is required to publish Open Access under the agreement.

It is always the corresponding author who is responsible for the publication of the article and any related expenses.