Read & Publish Open Access agreement with CAUL

Following the success of our earlier Read & Publish Open Access agreements with the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL), we are delighted to announce that we have signed a five journal renewal agreement for 2025.

• Read the announcement
• Read what authors at institutions participating in the CAUL agreement say

About the agreement

For a single charge, researchers at participating institutions benefit from:

• Open Access research articles in our hybrid journals, Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology, and our two fully Open Access journals – Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open – without paying an article processing charge (APC)
• unlimited access to the journals including the full archive dating back to 1853.

The following CAUL-member institutions are participating in 2025:

• Five-journal package (Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms, Biology Open):
  • Auckland University of Technology
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
  • Edith Cowan University
  • Flinders University
  • James Cook University
  • La Trobe University
  • Macquarie University
  • Massey University
  • Monash University
  • Murdoch University
  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
  • The Australian National University
  • The University of Adelaide
  • The University of Auckland
  • The University of Melbourne
  • The University of Newcastle
  • The University of Queensland
  • The University of Sydney
  • University of Auckland
  • University of New South Wales
  • University of Otago
  • University of Technology Sydney
  • University of Western Australia
  • University of Wollongong
  • Victoria University of Wellington

Further information and pricing is available to CAUL members on CAUL’s Consortia Manager website.

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