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Read & Publish agreement with the IISER Consortium

We are delighted to enter into a third year with a Read & Publish agreement with the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER).

This latest agreement will run throughout 2025, and researchers at participating institutions will continue 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.

The following IISER members are participating:

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research – IISER Bhopal
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research – IISER Kolkata
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research – IISER Mohali
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research – IISER Pune
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research – IISER Thiruvananthapuram
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research – IISER Tirupati

How to submit an article

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

Any questions? Contact us