New three-year Read & Publish agreement with Jisc
Our two-year cost-neutral Read & Publish agreement with Jisc from 1 January 2020 – 31 December 2021 was a great success and we have had excellent feedback from authors.
A new three-year Read & Publish agreement with Jisc is now available from 1 January 2022 – 31 December 2024 (with an annual opt out) and we are delighted to have already welcomed eight new institutions.
- See full details and pricing information on the Jisc website (Jisc-member institutions only).
- See participating institutions.
- Read the announcement.
What does the Jisc Read & Publish agreement offer?
For a single annual charge, participating institutions benefit from:
- unlimited access to all three of The Company of Biologists’ prestigious hybrid journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology – including the full archive dating back to 1853
- uncapped, immediate and fee-free Open Access publishing of accepted articles by corresponding authors under CC BY licence terms in:
- all three hybrid journals OR
- all three hybrid journals PLUS The Company of Biologists’ fully Open Access journals – Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open.
Partnership with OA Switchboard
The Company of Biologists is partnering with the OA Switchboard to simplify and streamline the transfer of OA publication-level information to libraries and funders. Jisc member institutions can sign up to the OA Switchboard free of charge until the end of 2023 here.
Institutions participating in the 2022-24 agreement with Jisc
- Five-journal package (Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms, Biology Open):
- Aberystwyth University
- Bangor University
- Cardiff University
- Durham University (new from 1 January 2022)
- Liverpool John Moores University
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- NBI (Norwich Bioscience Institutes) Library (new from 1 January 2022)
- Newcastle University (new from 1 January 2022)
- Nottingham Trent University
- Queen’s University of Belfast (new from 1 January 2022)
- St George’s University of London
- The Open University
- The University of Edinburgh
- Ulster University (new from 1 January 2022)
- University of Birmingham
- University of East Anglia
- University of Exeter
- University of Kent (new from 1 January 2022)
- University of Leeds (new from 1 January 2022)
- University of Liverpool
- University of Nottingham
- University of Portsmouth
- University of Reading
- University of St Andrews
- University of Stirling
- Three-journal package (Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology):
- Imperial College London
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Royal Veterinary College
- University College London
- University of Aberdeen (new from 1 January 2022)
- University of Bristol
- University of Lincoln
- University of York
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