Read & Publish Open Access agreement with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)

We are delighted to have signed a five journal Read & Publish agreement with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS).

This agreement, which runs throughout 2025, enables researchers at participating institutions to benefit from publishing:

• Open Access research articles in our transformative 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.

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Current participating institutes

• Agricultural Genomes Institute at Shenzhen
• Agricultural Information Institute
• Agro-Environmental Protection Institute of MARA
• Biogas Institute of MARA
• Biotechnology Research Institute
• China National Rice Research Institute
• Harbin Veterinary Research Institute
• Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development
• Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning
• Institute of Animal Sciences
• Institute of Apicultural Research
• Institute of Bast Fiber Crops
• Institute of Cotton Research
• Institute of Crop Sciences
• Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture
• Institute of Farmland Irrigation
• Institute of Feed Research
• Institute of Food and Nutrition Development of MARA
• Institute of Food Science and Technology
• Institute of Grassland Research
• Institute of Plant Protection
• Institute of Pomology
• Institute of Quality Standards and Testing Technology for Agro-Products
• Institute of Special Animal and Plant Sciences
• Institute of Tobacco Research
• Institute of Urban Agriculture
• Institute of Vegetables and Flowers
• Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute
• Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization of MARA
• Oil Crops Research Institute
• Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute
• Tea Research Institute
• Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute

Plus

• China Agricultural Science and Technology Press Ltd

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

Any questions? Contact us