The Company of Biologists appoint Lily Journal & Book Co., Ltd. as sole agent for Read & Publish in Taiwan (Republic of China)
14 March 2025
We are delighted to announce that we have updated our earlier agreement with Lily Journal & Book Co., Ltd., who now represent us as sole agent for Read & Publish in Taiwan (ROC).
Through their substantial experience in working with regional librarians and academic institutions, Lily Journal & Book Co., Ltd., has supported librarians with the transition to our Read & Publish initiative, enabling their researchers to benefit from publishing their work Open Access fee-free.
“I am pleased to announce that our representation agreement with Lily Journal for the Taiwan region has progressed to one of sole representation for the Read & Publish initiative. Our work with Lily Journal has gone from strength to strength in the promotion of Read & Publish on joint visits to clients kindly hosted by the agent in 2024, and their continued work on our behalf to support and inform libraries in the region in navigating the upgrade to our Read & Publish agreement.”
“We are delighted to announce that our partnership with The Company of Biologists has expanded further, enabling us to speed up the process in helping libraries and research institutes in Taiwan enter this new era of Read & Publish. Researchers within the biology community in Taiwan will benefit from being able to access all five journals from The Company of Biologists, and quickly publish OA articles without paying an article processing charge (APC). We are pleased our services contribute to developments in the scientific field.”
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
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 transformative journals — Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology — and our fully OA journals — Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. 2026 marks the 100-year anniversary of The Company of Biologists. We will be celebrating this important milestone with a community conference and other activities throughout the year.We also have a long-standing and ongoing commitment to OA. Our cost-neutral Read & Publish initiative enables corresponding authors at participating institutions to publish an uncapped number of OA research articles in our transformative journals and our two fully OA journals — without paying an APC. We were the first not-for-profit publisher to commit to the transformative journal approach and we are working towards a greater percentage of OA content year on year. Over 1,000 institutions in 54 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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