Three-year Read & Publish agreement with CAUL
Our three-year Read & Publish agreement with the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) commenced on 1 January 2022, and CAUL-member institutions in Australia and New Zealand 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.
We are delighted that nine more 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.
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 (moving to the CAUL agreement from 2023)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) (moving to the CAUL agreement and upgrading to the five-journal package from 2023)
- Edith Cowan University
- Flinders University
- James Cook University (new from 2023)
- La Trobe University
- Massey University (moving to the CAUL agreement from 2023)
- Monash University (moving to the CAUL agreement and upgrading from the three-journal package to the five-journal package from 2023)
- Murdoch University
- Queensland University of Technology (new from 2023)
- Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (upgrading from the three-journal package to the five-journal package from 2023)
- The University of Adelaide
- The University of Newcastle
- University of New South Wales
- University of Queensland
- Victoria University of Wellington (new from 2023)
- Three-journal package (Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology):
- Macquarie University
- The University of Melbourne
- University of Otago (moving to the CAUL agreement from 2023)
- University of Technology Sydney (new from 2023)
Further information and pricing is available to CAUL members on CAUL’s Consortia Manager website.
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What authors at universities in Australia say about Read & Publish agreements:
Dr Katharine Irvine, The University of Queensland, Australia
“The Read & Publish initiative is a great advance enabling open access to research. The agreement between The Company of Biologists and The University of Queensland made it simple to publish Open Access quickly and fee-free; a great incentive to publish in their suite of journals”
“Thanks to the Read & Publish Open Access Initiative, we had the opportunity to publish our work Open Access without worrying about the Open Access fee. We really appreciate it as it makes our research findings available to the public, and we can easily share our work with any interested parties.”
“In times when grant funding is difficult to secure, we really appreciated free Open Access publication of our work in Development.”
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