Read & Publish Open Access agreement between The Company of Biologists and both the KESLI and KCUE Consortia

We are delighted to have signed a five journal Read & Publish agreement with the Korean E-resource Service for Library Consortium (KESLI) and the Korean Council for University Education Consortium (KCUE) in the Republic of Korea.

This agreement, which runs from 1 January 2024 until 31 December 2026, enables researchers at participating institutions to benefit from publishing:

• Open Access research articles in our hybrid journals, Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology, and our two fully Open Access journals – Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open – without paying an article processing charge (APC)
• unlimited access to the journals including the full archive dating back to 1853.

Read the announcement

Participating institutions

• Ajou University
• Catholic University of Korea, The
• Chosun University
• Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST)
• Ewha Womans University
• Gyeongsang National University
• KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
• KIST – Korea Institute of Science & Technology
• Kyung Hee University
• Pohang University of Science & Technology
• Pusan National University
• Seoul National University
• Sookmyung Women’s University
• Sung-Kyun Kwan University
• Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology
• University of Ulsan College of Medicine Asan Medical Library
• Yonsei University
• Yonsei University College of Medicine

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

Any questions? Contact us