Read & Publish agreement with JULAC renewed for a further three years

We are delighted to have signed a further five journal Read & Publish agreement with the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) Consortium in Hong Kong from 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2028. 

For a single annual charge, researchers at participating institutions benefit from:

• Uncapped, immediate and fee-free Open Access publishing of accepted articles by corresponding authors under CC BY licence terms in all three transformative journals PLUS The Company of Biologists’ fully Open Access journals – Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open.
• Unlimited access to all three of The Company of Biologists’ prestigious transformative journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology – including the full archive dating back to 1853

Read the announcement.

The following JULAC members are participating:

• Chinese University of Hong Kong, The
• City University of Hong Kong
• Hong Kong Baptist University
• Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The
• University of Hong Kong, The

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

Any questions? Contact us