Read & Publish Open Access agreement with the South African National Library and Information Consortium (SANLiC)

We are delighted to have signed a five journal Read & Publish agreement with the South African National Library and Information Consortium (SANLiC).

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

• North-West University
• Stellenbosch University
• University of Pretoria
• University of the Witwatersrand

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

Any questions? Contact us.