Librarian resources

This page provides access to resources that will help with the administrative aspects of your Read & Publish Open Access agreement. You can also find tools to help you promote to your researchers the benefits of publishing fee-free Open Access (OA) in The Company of Biologists’ journals.

Librarian administration

The following links are useful for the administration of your Read & Publish Open Access agreement:

Librarian checklist

Copyright Clearance Centre (CCC) and RightsLink

CCC RightsLink for scientific communications PDF – support for institutions in OA agreement management and consolidated APC payments
Collaboration and Integration: CCC RightsLink – OA Switchboard – ConsortiaManager – video animation to illustrate that when intermediaries cooperate by integrating their systems and services, the industry benefits from greater efficiency, reduced costs and improved transparency
CCC user guides:
- Reviewing funding requests
- Reporting resources

cOAlition S Journal checker tool

Journal checker tool

ESAC registry

ESAC transformative agreement registry

IPregistry

A free service for libraries, our partnership with the IPregistry makes it quick and easy for you to update IP addresses

OA Switchboard

A not-for-profit, independent and industry-wide initiative, the OA Switchboard provides a central multi-publisher hub for the exchange of OA-related publication-level information. The OA Switchboard website contains lots of useful information including:

FAQs
Videos – including OA Switchboard Reporting Made Easy video animation

Silverchair

Resources to help promote your agreement to your researchers and users

To help you raise awareness, we have prepared a Librarian toolkit with a range of emails, flyers, website banners and social media graphics which you can download. Please do contact us if you need customised versions of our resources.

Additionally, we have a step-by-step guide for authors, a range of flyers, guides, informative videos and links to useful pages for you to share with your researchers:

Step-by-step guide for authors
Read & Publish – benefits for researchers flyer
Read & Publish – benefits for libraries flyer
View our journal flyers: All journals | Development | Journal of Cell Science | Journal of Experimental Biology | Disease Models & Mechanisms | Biology Open

Read & Publish and Open Access video collection

Journals

Read about our journals

Biology Open Fast & Fair peer review

To accelerate the publication process, our journal Biology Open is testing an initiative that prioritises fast but fair peer review. This approach pays reviewers while requiring them to complete high-quality reviews within a set timeframe. Our goal is to minimise delays associated with peer review while maintaining the highest standards of rigor and integrity. To learn more about our progress and future plans, read the Editorial by Editor-in-Chief Daniel Gorelick, or visit the Fast & Fair peer review page.