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.
Read and Publish Transformative Agreements
Agreements with discounted Open Access publishing fees
Visit the Lyell Collection
The Society Publishers’ Coalition (SocPC)
Journals and book series covered by agreements:
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APC 2024 |
Journal of the Geological Society |
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£ 2,400 / US$ 3,360 / 2,880 €
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Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology |
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£ 2,400 / US$ 3,360 / 2,880 €
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Petroleum Geoscience |
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£ 2,400 / US$ 3,360 / 2,880 €
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Geoenergy |
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£ 2,400 / US$ 3,360 / 2,880 €
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Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis |
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£ 2,400 / US$ 3,360 / 2,880 €
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Scottish Journal of Geology |
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£ 2,200 / US$ 3,080 / 2,640 €
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Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society |
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£ 2,200 / US$ 3,080 / 2,640 €
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Special Publications |
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£ 2,400 / US$ 3,360 / 2,880 €
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Memoirs |
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£ 2,400 / US$ 3,360 / 2,880 €
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Engineering Geology Special Publications |
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£ 2,400 / US$ 3,360 / 2,880 €
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GeoHorizons |
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£ 2,400 / US$ 3,360 / 2,880 €
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Please click on the relevant link above to see information for authors.
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Member discounts
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Articles where the corresponding author or at least half the authors are Fellows of the Geological Society are entitled to a 25% discount.
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Articles where the corresponding author or at least half the authors are Fellows of the Geological Society or members of the European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE) are entitled to a 25% discount.
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Articles where the corresponding author or at least half the authors are Fellows of the Geological Society or members of the Association of Applied Geochemists are entitled to a 25% discount.
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(Titles in the "Geoscience in Practice" and "Geology of" book series are excluded from transformative and discounted agreements.)
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Read and Publish Transformative Agreements
- Lund University, Sweden
- University College Dublin, Ireland
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (UVB), Netherlands
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
- University of Maryland, College Park, United States
- UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
- Jisc members
- CAUL members
- ZB Med consortia
Discounted Open Access publishing fees
- California Digital Library
Renewal grace period
Read and Publish Transformative Agreements
Agreements include read access to 16 journal and book sites, including all current and archived journals plus key book series and historic collections in the Lyell Collection. The agreement also covers unlimited open access publishing of all article types in 7 hybrid journals and 4 hybrid book series (listed above). Authors 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. A full list of the journals, book series and historic content included in the 2024 agreement is available here.
The eligible author must be the corresponding author and submit using their institutional affiliation and matching email address. The agreements for 2024 apply only to papers with a 2024 submission date.
We are continuing to negotiate transformative read and publish agreements. These pages are updated regularly with the latest information.
Authors at the institutions below may publish with GSL under their 'Read & Publish' transformative agreement for the Geological Society’s Lyell Collection for articles submitted in 2024:
Lund University, Sweden (2023 & 2024) |
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University College Dublin, Ireland (2023 & 2024) |
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (UVB), Netherlands (2023 & 2024)
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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
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University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States |
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University of Maryland, College Park, United States
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Authors at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) may publish with GSL under their 'Read & Publish' transformative agreement for the Geological Society’s Lyell Collection for articles submitted in 2024. This agreement includes Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) research centres - British Geological Survey and British Antarctic Survey.
Jisc
Jisc member institutions can view their read and publish rates and licence information in Jisc Subscriptions Manager.
Authors at the following Jisc member institutions may publish with GSL under a 'Read & Publish' transformative agreement for the Geological Society’s Lyell Collection for articles submitted in 2024:
Bangor University |
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University of Exeter
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Birkbeck, University of London |
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University of Glasgow
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Cardiff University |
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University of Leeds
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Heriot-Watt University |
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University of Leicester
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Imperial College |
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University of Liverpool
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Lancaster University |
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University of Manchester
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Queen's University of Belfast |
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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Royal Holloway University of London |
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University of Oxford
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The Open University |
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University of Plymouth
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University College London |
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University of Portsmouth
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University of Aberdeen |
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University of Sheffield
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University of Birmingham |
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University of Southampton
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University of Bristol |
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University of Strathclyde
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University of Cambridge |
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University of St Andrews |
University of Durham |
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University of York |
University of East Anglia
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University of Edinburgh
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CAUL
Authors at the following CAUL member institutions may publish with GSL under a 'Read & Publish' transformative agreement for the Geological Society’s Lyell Collection for articles submitted in 2024:
CSIRO
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University of Queensland
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Macquarie University
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University of Sydney
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Monash University |
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University of Tasmania
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University of Melbourne |
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University of Western Australia
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University of Otago
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Victoria University of Wellington
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ZB Med
Authors at the following ZB Med consortia institutions in Germany may publish with GSL under a 'Read & Publish' transformative agreement for the Geological Society’s Lyell Collection for articles submitted in 2023 and 2024:
Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR) |
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Freie Universität Berlin
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Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
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GEOMAR: Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel |
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Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
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Technische Universität Berlin
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Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster
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Universität Hamburg (& 2025)
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Authors at the following ZB Med consortia institution in Germany may publish with GSL under a 'Read & Publish' transformative agreement for the Geological Society’s Lyell Collection for articles
submitted in 2023:
Discounted Open Access publishing fees
The eligible author must be the corresponding author and submit using their institutional affiliation and matching email address. Discount agreements for 2024 apply only to papers with a 2024 submission date.
Authors at the California Digital Library institutions listed below are able to take advantage of a 25% discount on Open Access publishing fees for articles submitted in 2024:
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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We are a founding member of The Society Publishers’ Coalition (SocPC); a group of like-minded, not-for-profit learned societies, community publishers and charities who share the common ambition to see an orderly and sustainable transition to open scholarship. Our Read & Publish agreements follow the following principles:
Renewal grace period
To help our authors benefit from our Read and Publish agreements and discounted Article Processing Charges we work closely with institutions during the renewal period at the start of the each new subscription year. We allow a 2-month period of gracing until the end of February to allow time for existing agreements to be renewed. During this time-frame authors from institutions with agreements in place from the previous subscription year and submitting to GSL publications will be recognised as eligible to a waived charge or discount (unless non-renewal of the agreement is confirmed before the end of February). Should an institution not renew their agreement then it may be necessary to charge a fee and authors will be contacted.
The journal Earth Science, Systems and Society (ES3) is a fully Open Access journal and content is not hosted on the Lyell Collection. As such it is excluded from read and publish agreements for the Lyell Collection.
Ebook content is not included in read and publish agreements.
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
GEOMAR: Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, Germany |
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Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR)
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Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
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Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
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Freie Universität Berlin (2023 and 2024)
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Universität Hamburg (2023, 2024 and 2025)
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Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster
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Universität Potsdam
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Technische Universität Berlin
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Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster
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Universität Potsdam (2022 & 2023)
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