Figure 1a
Royal Society Publishing's ‘FirstCite’ Workflow: 2002–2012
Figure 1b
Royal Society Publishing's ‘Continuous Publication’ Workflow: 2013 onwards
Figure 1. Royal Society Publishing's Workflows before and after continuous publication
Figure 2a
Comparison between the 2012 (left) and 2013 (right) PDF/print page designs of Proceedings of the Royal Society B, with citation details and copyright details highlighted in each
Figure 2b
Comparison between the ‘latest articles’ pages for the FirstCite (left) and Continuous Publication (right) models used by The Royal Society – the FirstCite page lists articles under dated subheadings, while the ‘open’ CP issue's table of contents is structured as you would expect a standard table of contents, with article types grouped together. Articles are listed within their subject groups in reverse date order, with the date they were published online given in brackets after the article DOI
Figure 2. Examples from the transition project (for illustrative purposes only)
Figure 3
Continuous Publication (CP) project plan