Read & Publish agreement with Jisc
28 UK institutions are participating in our two-year cost-neutral Read & Publish agreement with Jisc which runs for an initial period from 1 January 2020 – 31 December 2021.
2021 pricing is available to member institutions on the Jisc website, and we look forward to welcoming additional institutions to the agreement shortly.
For a single annual charge based on the current year’s subscription fee and average of the last 3 years’ article processing charges (APCs), the Jisc agreement enables researchers at participating UK universities to benefit from:
- Unlimited access to all three of The Company of Biologists’ prestigious journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology – including the full archive dating back to 1853
- Fee-free Open Access publishing of accepted articles by corresponding authors under CC-BY licence terms
Kathryn Spiller, Licensing Manager at Jisc, said:
“The Company of Biologists is one of a small group of not-for-profit publishers who are working hard to push the Open Access agenda forward. Their new Read & Publish open access initiative is an important step in their OA journey, and we were delighted to be the first national library consortium to negotiate an agreement.
The Jisc agreement also enables institutions that have not previously subscribed to any of The Company of Biologists’ journals to benefit from an exceptionally cost-effective rate for read and publish access for their researchers.
We are very pleased with the take-up of the agreement so far, and look forward to working with The Company of Biologists to increase participation even further.”
Kyle Brady, Scholarly Communications Manager, Digital Research, Research and Innovation Services, University of St Andrews, said:
“At the University of St Andrews we have long supported Open Access to research publications, and in recent years a large part of that support involves signing up to innovative and transitional open access deals which meet the needs of our researchers and the wider community.
By signing up to The Company of Biologists’ Read and Publish deal we are now able to increase the quantity of OA articles authored by our researchers in the biological sciences, and at the same time reduce the admin burden by simplifying the OA ordering process.”
Participating institutions:
- Aberystwyth University
- Bangor University
- Cardiff University
- Imperial College London
- Lancaster University
- Liverpool John Moores University
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- Nottingham Trent University
- Oxford Brookes University
- Royal Veterinary College
- St George’s University of London
- The Open University
- University of Birmingham
- University of Bristol
- University College London
- University of Cambridge
- University of East Anglia
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Exeter
- University of Lincoln
- University of Liverpool
- University of Oxford
- University of Portsmouth
- University of Reading
- University of Stirling
- University of St Andrews
- University of York
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