Read and Publish and discounted Open Access for authors
The society actively encourages open access in scholarly communication. Our Read and Publish license agreements and discounted Article Processing Charges help to increase your institution’s research exposure and allows authors to publish more content in an open access format, leading to a wider dissemination and increased potential for downloads and citations
If you have any questions regarding the read and publish agreements or discount schemes please contact us.
| Gold Open Access Article Processing Charges |
2021 |
| Journal of the Geological Society |
£2,150 |
| Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology |
£2,150 |
| Petroleum Geoscience |
£2,150 |
| Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis |
£2,150 |
| Scottish Journal of Geology |
£1,500 |
| Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society |
£1,500 |
| Special Publications |
£2,150 |
| Memoirs |
£2,150 |
| Engineering Geology Special Publications |
£2,150 |
| Rate per article. Additional fees for retrospective requests. |
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Read and Publish Transitional Agreements
Jisc
CAUL
Discounted Open Access publishing fees
ZBMed
California Digital Library
Read and Publish Transitional Agreements
Agreements include read access to 14 journal and book sites, including all current and archived journals plus key book series and historic collections. The agreement also covers unlimited open access publishing of all article types in 6 hybrid journals and 3 hybrid book series. Author at institutions who sign up will be able to take advantage of streamlined Open Access publishing where fees have already been included in the agreement with their institution.
Jisc
Authors at Jisc member institutions in the UK may publish with GSL under a 'Read & Publish' transitional agreement for the Geological Society’s Lyell Collection.
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Jisc member Read and Publish agreements for 2021:
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| Birkbeck, University of London |
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University College London
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Cardiff University
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University of Birmingham
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| Durham University |
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University of Bristol
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Heriot-Watt University
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University of Exeter
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| Imperial College London |
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University of Edinburgh |
| Lancaster University |
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University of Oxford
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Newcastle University
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University of Portsmouth
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| Open University |
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University of St Andrews |
Queen's University Belfast
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University of York
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CAUL
Authors at CAUL member institutions may publish with GSL under a 'Read & Publish' transitional agreement for the Geological Society’s Lyell Collection.
CAUL member Read and Publish agreements for 2021:
Macquarie University
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University of Queensland
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Monash University
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Victoria University of Wellington
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Discounted Open Access publishing fees
Authors at the following ZBMed consortia institutions in Germany are able to take advantage of a 25% discount on 2021 Open Access publishing fees:
Bundesanstalt fuer Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe
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Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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Helmholtz-Zentrum fuer Ozeanforschung (GEOMAR)
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Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
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Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
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Technische Universität Berlin
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Authors at institutions listed below in the California Digital Library are able to take advantage of a 25% discount on 2021 Open Access publishing fees:
University of California, Berkeley
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University of California, Los Angeles
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University of California, Davis
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University of California, San Diego
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