The Company of Biologists appoint Lily Journal & Book Co., Ltd. as a representative in Taiwan (Republic of China)

23 July 2024

We are delighted to announce that we have signed an agreement with Lily Journal & Book Co., Ltd. to represent us in Taiwan (ROC).

The expertise and local knowledge of Lily Journal & Book Co., Ltd. will support librarians to enable researchers in the region to publish their work Open Access with our Read & Publish initiative.

Over 850 institutions in 51 countries are now participating in our Read & Publish Open Access (OA) initiative, and this is helping to drive significant growth in OA publishing in our leading peer-reviewed journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open.

Sarah Logan, Regional Sales Manager at The Company of Biologists, says:

“We are delighted to announce a new agency representation agreement with Lily Journal for the Taiwan (ROC) region. This collaboration will introduce librarians to our innovative cost neutral Read & Publish initiative, and we look forward to working with Lily Journal, and to attending the upcoming Taiwan Medical Library Association (TMLA) conference together in August. This event presents a fantastic opportunity to meet existing subscribers, share the benefits of our Read & Publish initiative, and connect with new clients who would benefit from our high-quality content. Please do come and visit us at the Lily Journal agency booth during this event.”

Janice Huang, General Manager at Lily Journal & Book Co., Ltd., says:

“We are delighted to collaborate with The Company of Biologists to broaden accessibility to highly authoritative and influential journals. We strongly believe The Company of Biologists’ Read & Publish proposal benefits academic libraries and authors. With unlimited open access publishing, Read & Publish also encourages research output in Taiwan.”

About Lily Journal & Book Co., Ltd.
Lily Journal & Book Co., Ltd. is a leading agent in the field of journal subscription service in Taiwan. With over fifty years of experience, it has built solid business relations with worldwide publishers and offers outstanding performance in customer service to meet all subscribers’ requests without delay and remains flexible enough to assimilate new information adapting to changing markets. www.ljbc.com.tw

About The Company of Biologists
The Company of Biologists is a not-for-profit publishing organisation dedicated to supporting and inspiring the biological community. We partner with libraries and library consortia to enable biologists worldwide to access our leading peer-reviewed hybrid journals — Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology — and our fully OA journals — Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open.

We also have a long-standing and ongoing commitment to Open Access. Our cost-neutral Read & Publish initiative enables corresponding authors at participating institutions to publish an uncapped number of OA research articles in our hybrid journals and our two fully OA journals — without paying an Article Processing Charge (APC). We were the first not-for-profit publisher to commit to the Transformative Journal approach and our journals were the first to be awarded Transformative Journal status by Plan S. Over 850 institutions in 51 countries are now participating in our cost neutral Read & Publish OA initiative. We also have Read & Publish agreements with many library consortia.

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