Three-year Read & Publish agreement with the Bibsam Consortium

We are delighted to have signed a three-year Read & Publish agreement with the Bibsam Consortium in Sweden from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2024.

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 Bibsam members are participating:

Chalmers University of Technology
Karolinska Institute
Linköping University
Lund University
Stockholm University
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Umea University
University of Gothenburg

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

Any questions? Contact us

What authors at institutions participating in the Bibsam agreement say:

Erdinc Sezgin, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

"Open science is key for our collective knowledge. I find this Read & Publish agreement between The Company of Biologists and Karolinska Institutet very valuable for this endeavour. Thanks to this collaboration, our paper in Journal of Cell Science can reach a wider audience."

Read Erdinc Sezgin's article in Journal of Cell Science

Elisa Thoral, Lund University, Sweden

Elisa Thoral, Lund University, Sweden

"In research, it is essential to have access to knowledge, and therefore to the numerous articles published in all the different fields. For this reason, I am grateful that Lund University is part of the Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists, which has enabled me to publish my latest article in Biology Open in an Open Access format."

Read Elisa Thoral's article in Biology Open

Alexander Hansson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Alexander Hansson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

"The importance of Open Access for science cannot be emphasized enough, as it increases the accessibility of our research to both the public and institutions without journal subscriptions. My institution has a Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists, and opting for Open Access publication not only incurred no cost in terms of our research funds but was also very easy to apply for in their application system. Such Open Access agreements between journals and institutions are a great step forward towards making science accessible to all - researchers and readers alike."

Read Alexander Hansson's article in Journal of Experimental Biology

Anders Hedenström, Lund University, Sweden

Anders Hedenström, Lund University, Sweden

"I think that publicly funded research should be freely available. To have our paper published Open Access free of charge, thanks to the Read & Publish initiative, was simply awesome, and it only took a few clicks to arrange."

Read Anders Hedenström’s article in Journal of Experimental Biology

Rickesh Patel, Lund University, Sweden

Rickesh Patel, Lund University, Sweden

"My co-authors and I are very grateful to publish our paper Open Access in Journal of Experimental Biology without charge as part of my institution’s Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists. We are happy to know that individuals who may not have the privilege of having access to the journal via their institution will nonetheless have access to our publication free of charge."

Read Rickesh Patel’s Open Access article in Journal of Experimental Biology.