Read & Publish agreement with the JULAC Consortium

We are delighted to have signed a five journal Read & Publish agreement with the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) Consortium in Hong Kong from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2025.

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

• Unlimited access to all three of The Company of Biologists’ prestigious hybrid journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology – including the full archive dating back to 1853
• Uncapped, immediate and fee-free Open Access publishing of accepted articles by corresponding authors under CC BY licence terms in all three hybrid journals PLUS The Company of Biologists’ fully Open Access journals – Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open.

Read the announcement.

The following JULAC members are participating:

• City University of Hong Kong
• Hong Kong Baptist University
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• The University of Hong Kong

How to submit an article
Please see our step-by-step guide to submitting articles via our Read & Publish initiative.

Any questions? Contact us