This is a short summary of the green open access policy of The Royal Society.
Preprint: archiving allowed
Postprint:
archiving allowed
Published version:
archiving forbidden
Conditions
Author's pre-print on free public servers
Author's post-print on author's personal website, institutional website, institutional repository, PubMed Central or not-for-profit open access repository
Author's post-print can be deposited on acceptance
Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used
Published source must be acknowledged with citation close to title of article
Must link to publisher version close to title of article
If required by a funder, authors may archive their Author's post-print under a Creative Commons Attribution License.