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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.

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