Read & Publish agreement with IReL

Following the success of our first three-year Read & Publish Open Access (OA) agreement with IReL (1 January 2020 – 31 December 2022), we are delighted to announce that we have signed a renewal agreement from 1 January 2023 – 31 December 2025.

All eleven institutions that participated in the 2020-2022 agreement have chosen to renew and, for the first time, the new agreement includes uncapped and fee-free publishing in our fully OA journals – Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open.

Read the announcement.

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.

The following institutions in Ireland are participating in the agreement:

• Dublin City University
• Higher Education Authority
• Maynooth University
• Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
• Science Foundation Ireland
• Technological University Dublin
• Trinity College Dublin
• University College Cork
• University College Dublin
• University of Galway
• University of Limerick

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

Any questions? Contact us