Librarian resources
This page provides access to resources that will help with the administrative aspects of your Read & Publish Open Access agreement. You can also find tools to help you promote to your researchers the benefits of publishing fee-free Open Access (OA) in The Company of Biologists’ journals.
Librarian administration
The following links are useful for the administration of your Read & Publish Open Access agreement:
Copyright Clearance Centre (CCC) and RightsLink
- CCC RightsLink for scientific communications PDF – support for institutions in OA agreement management and consolidated APC payments
- Collaboration and Integration: CCC RightsLink – OA Switchboard – ConsortiaManager – video animation to illustrate that when intermediaries cooperate by integrating their systems and services, the industry benefits from greater efficiency, reduced costs and improved transparency
- CCC user guides:
cOAlition S Journal checker tool
ESAC registry
IPregistry
- A free service for libraries, our partnership with the IPregistry makes it quick and easy for you to update IP addresses
OA Switchboard
A not-for-profit, independent and industry-wide initiative, the OA Switchboard provides a central multi-publisher hub for the exchange of OA-related publication-level information. The OA Switchboard website contains lots of useful information including:
- FAQs
- Videos – including OA Switchboard Reporting Made Easy video animation
Silverchair
Resources to help promote your agreement to your researchers and users
To help you raise awareness, we have prepared a Librarian toolkit with a range of emails, flyers, website banners and social media graphics which you can download. Please do contact us if you need customised versions of our resources.
Additionally, we have a step-by-step guide for authors, a range of flyers, guides, informative videos and links to useful pages for you to share with your researchers:
- Step-by-step guide for authors
- Read & Publish – benefits for researchers flyer
- Read & Publish – benefits for libraries flyer
- View our journal flyers: All journals | Development | Journal of Cell Science | Journal of Experimental Biology | Disease Models & Mechanisms | Biology Open
Read & Publish and Open Access video collection
- All videos
- For librarians
- What Editors-in-Chief say
- What authors say
- The Forest of Biologists
- The Company of Biologists journal playlists on YouTube
- Publishing with The Company of Biologists: navigating the editorial process
Journals
Read about our journals
- Development
- Journal of Cell Science
- Journal of Experimental Biology
- Disease Models & Mechanisms
- Biology Open
Biology Open Fast & Fair peer review
To accelerate the publication process, our journal Biology Open is testing an initiative that prioritises fast but fair peer review. This approach pays reviewers while requiring them to complete high-quality reviews within a set timeframe. Our goal is to minimise delays associated with peer review while maintaining the highest standards of rigor and integrity. To learn more about our progress and future plans, read the Editorial by Editor-in-Chief Daniel Gorelick, or visit the Fast & Fair peer review page.
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