Three-year Read & Publish agreement with CAUL

Our three-year Read & Publish agreement with the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) has been a great success, and 20 institutions in Australia and New Zealand are now participating.

We are also delighted that nine additional institutions joined the agreement in 2023, that all participants in 2022 chose to renew, and that the number of institutions opting for our five-journal package has risen to 15.

• Read the announcement
• Read what authors at institutions participating in the CAUL agreement say

About the agreement

The agreement commenced on 1 January 2022, and CAUL-member institutions can sign up on an annual basis.

For a single charge each year, researchers at 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.

The following CAUL-member institutions are participating in 2023:

• Five-journal package (Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms, Biology Open):
  • Auckland University of Technology
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
  • Edith Cowan University
  • Flinders University
  • James Cook University
  • La Trobe University
  • Macquarie University
  • Massey University
  • Monash University
  • Murdoch University
  • Queensland University of Technology
  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
  • The Australian National University
  • The University of Adelaide
  • The University of Melbourne
  • The University of Newcastle
  • University of New South Wales
  • University of Otago
  • University of Sydney
  • University of Queensland
  • University of Technology Sydney
  • University of Western Australia
  • University of Wollongong
  • Victoria University of Wellington

Further information and pricing is available to CAUL members on CAUL’s Consortia Manager website.

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