EIFL has renewed the agreement with Royal Society Publishing for a further three years until December 2029. The agreement provides EIFL partner countries with free or deeply discounted access to eight high-impact journals in the physical and biological sciences, and waived Article Processing Charges (APCs) for open access publishing in fully open access and hybrid journals.

ACCESS TO JOURNALS

Countries that are eligible for free access - 

Armenia, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Malawi, Maldives, Moldova, Myanmar, Nepal, Palestine, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries that are eligible for discounted access - 

Albania, Azerbaijan, Botswana, Estonia, Fiji, Kosova, Latvia, Lithuania, Namibia, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Thailand

WAIVED APCS 

As in the previous agreement, authors from 32 EIFL partner countries can publish in open access for free in one of the Royal Society Publishing’s two fully open-access journals: Open Biology and Royal Society Open Science, as well as in eight of the Royal Society Publishing’s hybrid journals:

• Biology Letters
• Journal of the Royal Society Interface
• Interface Focus
• Notes and Records
• Proceedings A
• Proceedings B
• Philosophical Transactions A
• Philosophical Transactions B

Corresponding authors from the following 32 countries are eligible for waived APCs - 

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Botswana, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Fiji, Georgia, Ghana, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Malawi, Maldives, Moldova, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, North Macedonia, Palestine, Senegal, Serbia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe

• More about the agreement to access the Royal Society Journals Collection.
• More about waived APCs from Royal Society Publishing for corresponding authors in EIFL partner countries.