Renewal of the Read & Publish Open Access agreement with Jisc
We are delighted to have renewed our Read & Publish agreement with Jisc for a further term.
The agreement runs from 1 January 2025 until 31 December 2026 (with an annual opt out).
- See full details and pricing information on the Jisc website (Jisc-member institutions only)
- Read feedback from authors at participating institutions in the UK
- Read the announcement
What does the Jisc Read & Publish agreement offer?
For a single annual charge, participating institutions benefit from:
- uncapped, immediate and fee-free Open Access publishing of accepted articles by corresponding authors under CC BY licence terms in:
- all three hybrid journals journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology OR
- all three hybrid journals PLUS The Company of Biologists’ fully Open Access journals – Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open
- unlimited access to all three hybrid journals including the full archive dating back to 1853
Jisc Publications Router Service
The Company of Biologists provides full-text Open Access (OA) articles for distribution to UK institutional repositories via Jisc’s Publications Router service. This means that the version of record is delivered automatically to authors’ institutions, usually within seven weeks of acceptance, together with rich and authoritative metadata.
The Jisc Publications Router Service is available free of charge to Jisc-member higher education institutions with compatible systems.
Partnership with OA Switchboard
The Company of Biologists has partnered with the OA Switchboard to simplify and streamline the transfer of OA publication-level information to libraries and funders.
How to submit an article
Please see our step-by-step guide to submitting articles via our Read & Publish initiative.
Any questions? Contact us
