1. Open Science at the Royal Society Dr Stuart Taylor Publishing Director

2. The Royal Society
The national academy of sciences for the UK and Commonwealth

3. The Royal Society Founded in 1660; Royal charter in 1662
Fellowship of 1600 of the world’s most eminent scientists
The Society’s fundamental purpose is to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.
What we do
fund research (1,300 grants, £75m per year)
provide science advice to policymakers
recognise excellence
publish research
promote international collaboration
public engagement

4. Focal points

5. Our publishing - origins
March 6th 1665 : Philosophical Transactions
The world’s first
science journal
Registration
Verification
Dissemination
Archival

6. Our publishing - today Two open access journals, eight hybrids
8,500 submissions/year, 3,000 articles published/year. £7.5m turnover

7. Publishing science serves two mission objectives
Mission alignment
Publishing science serves two mission objectives
Verification and dissemination of research findings;
curation of the literature
Generation of funds to support other
Royal Society activities

8. Open Access Introduced open access option in all journals in 2006
First open access journal launched in 2010
Open access licence is CC-BY 4.0
We encourage our authors to post preprints
We allow deposit of the accepted verion in repositories without embargo

9. The Future of Scholarly Scientific Communication
Stakeholders
Senior scientists
Early career scientists
Funders
Institutions
Learned Societies / Academies
Publishers
Science communicators
Industry
Technology
Inform the future development of our own publishing
Topics
Peer review
Reproducibility
Research ethics / misconduct
Future of the article
Research evaluation / metrics
Business models
Open science
May 2015

10. The Future of Scholarly Scientific Communication
1. Research assessment and reward structure
Publication bias
Pressure to commit research misconduct
Upward pressure on APC levels
Chilling effect on progress to OA
Chilling effect on data sharing
Chilling effect on preprinting
Dysfunctional market in science publishing
2. Transparency
Intelligently open data  maximise benefits and reproducibility of research
Open peer review
Institutions more transparent about misconduct cases
Publishers more transparent about costs and ‘big deal’ pricing
Journals publish citation distributions
Author identifiers to reduce fraud
May 2015

11. Science Policy Positions
2012 – Science as an Open Enterprise policy report
2013 – Evidence to House of Lords select committee on open access 2013 – Evidence to HM Government BIS committee on open access
2014 – Evidence to review of implementation of RCUK policy on open access
2014 – consultation response – Science 2.0 (European Commission)
2017 – statement on research integrity
2018 – Research Culture project
2018 – Evidence Synthesis policy report

12. Publishing initiatives following #FSSC
2015
Introduced author contribution statements
Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines signatory
Introduced Registered Reports in Royal Society Open Science
2016
Mandatory open data in all journals (encouraged since 2009) – deposit charges paid
First publisher to introduce an ORCID mandate for authors
Statement encouraging authors to post preprints
Introduced Publons for public recognition of peer reviewers
2017
Extended OPR to two more journals
Mandatory Data Availability Statements for all articles
Appointed a preprints editor for Proceedings B
2018
Launch of evidence synthesis article type in three journals
OPR now on a fourth journal (mandatory on three)
Co-initiated open letter (with ASAPbio) encouraging journals to adopt OPR
Accountable replication policy (imminently)

13. ORCID iD

14. Statements

15. Data sharing

16. Data repositories

17. Open peer review

18. Preprints policy

19. New article types

20. Thank you!