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.
Institutions participating in the 2025-2026 agreement with Jisc
- Five-journal package (Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms, Biology
Open): - Aberystwyth University
- Bangor University
- Cardiff University
- Durham University
- Francis Crick Institute
- Imperial College London
- Liverpool John Moores University
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology & MRC Harwell
- NBI (Norwich Bioscience Institutes) Library
- Newcastle University
- Nottingham Trent University
- Oxford Brookes University
- Queen’s University of Belfast
- Royal Veterinary College
- St George’s University of London
- The Open University
- The University of Edinburgh
- The University of Manchester
- Ulster University
- University of Bath
- University of Birmingham
- University of Cambridge
- University of East Anglia
- University of Exeter
- University of Glasgow
- University of Leeds
- University of Lincoln
- University of Liverpool
- University of Nottingham
- University of Portsmouth
- University of Reading
- University of Sheffield
- University of Southampton
- University of St Andrews
- University of Stirling
- University of Sussex
- University of Warwick
- Three-journal package (Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology):
- University College London
- University of Aberdeen
- University of Bristol
- University of Oxford
- Wellcome Sanger Institute
How to submit an article
Please see our step-by-step guide to submitting articles via our Read & Publish initiative.
Any questions? Contact us
