Publications

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 Agreements

Agreements with discounted Open Access publishing fees

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The Society Publishers’ Coalition (SocPC)

Read and Publish Agreements

• Individual institutions (list below)
• Natural Resources Canada
• UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
• Jisc members
• CAUL members
• ZB Med consortia members

Discounted Open Access publishing fees

• California Digital Library 

Article reporting

Renewal grace period

Read and Publish 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 is available here.

The eligible author must be the corresponding author and submit using their institutional affiliation and matching email address. The agreements for 2025 apply only to papers with a 2025 submission date. 

We are continuing to negotiate 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' agreement for the Geological Society’s Lyell Collection for articles submitted in 2024:

US Geological Survey
Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)
Lund University, Sweden
Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
University of Maryland, College Park, United States

Authors at Natural Resources Canada may publish with GSL under their 'Read & Publish' agreement for the Geological Society’s Lyell Collection for articles submitted from 13 January 2025 to 12 January 2026. 

Authors at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) may publish with GSL under their 'Read & Publish' agreement for the Geological Society’s Lyell Collection for articles submitted in 2024 and 2025. 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' agreement for the Geological Society’s Lyell Collection for articles submitted in 2025:

Bangor University		University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow		University of Exeter
Cardiff University		Birkbeck, University of London
Heriot-Watt University		University of Leeds
Imperial College		University of Liverpool
Lancaster University		University of Manchester
University of Plymouth		University of Newcastle upon Tyne
University of Oxford		Royal Holloway University of London
The Open University		Queen's University of Belfast
University College London		University of Portsmouth
University of Aberdeen		University of Sheffield
University of Birmingham		University of Southampton
University of Bristol		University of Strathclyde
University of Cambridge		University of St Andrews
University of Durham
University of East Anglia

CAUL

Authors at the following CAUL member institutions may publish with GSL under a 'Read & Publish' agreement for the Geological Society’s Lyell Collection for articles submitted in 2025: 

CSIRO		University of Queensland
Macquarie University		University of Sydney
Monash University		University of Tasmania
University of Melbourne		University of Western Australia
University of Otago		Victoria University of Wellington
Australian National University

ZB Med

Authors at the following ZB Med consortia institutions in Germany may publish with GSL under a 'Read & Publish' agreement for the Geological Society’s Lyell Collection for articles submitted in 2024:

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster

Authors at the following ZB Med consortia institutions in Germany may publish with GSL under a 'Read & Publish' agreement for the Geological Society’s Lyell Collection for articles submitted in 2025:

Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR)
Freie Universität Berlin
GEOMAR: Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Technische Universität Berlin
Universität Hamburg
GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung

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Discounted Open Access publishing fees

The eligible author must be the corresponding author and submit using their institutional affiliation and matching email address. 

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 and 2025:

University of California, Berkeley		University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Davis		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:

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Article reporting

The Society uses ChronosHub for article reporting. More information on the ChronosHub website.*

Articles submitted from December 2023 are listed in ChronosHub article reporting. Please contact us if you would like to be registered as an administrator on ChronosHub for your institutional agreement. 
*The approval workflow is not automatically applied to each administrator, please request this if required. The Retro-OA dashboard is not currently enabled by the Society.

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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 3-month period of gracing until the end of March 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 March). Should an institution not renew their agreement then it may be necessary to charge a fee and authors will be contacted.

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Ebook content is not included in read and publish agreements.

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Universität Potsdam

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Durham University

Durham University

GEOMAR: Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, Germany
Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR)
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
Freie Universität Berlin (2023 and 2024)
Universität Hamburg (2023, 2024 and 2025)
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster
Universität Potsdam
Technische Universität Berlin

Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster
Universität Potsdam (2022 & 2023)