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We are also pleased to collaborate with consortia to pilot other transformative Open Access models.</p> <p>We have signed Read & Publish agreements with the <a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/bibsam/">Bibsam Consortium</a>, <a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/caul/">CAUL</a>, <a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/read-publish-open-access-agreement-with-the-digital-resource-acquisition-alliance-of-chinese-academic-libraries-draa/">DRAA</a>, <a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/agreement-with-the-iiser-consortium-india/">IISER</a>, <a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/irel/">IReL</a>, <a href="https://www.biologists.com/read-publish/jisc/">Jisc</a>, <a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/agreement-with-the-julac-consortium-hong-kong/">JULAC</a>, <a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/read-publish-open-access-agreement-with-justice/">JUSTICE</a>, <a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/read-publish-open-access-agreement-with-both-the-kesli-and-kcue-consortia/">KESLI</a>, <a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/read-publish-open-access-agreement-with-both-the-kesli-and-kcue-consortia/">KCUE</a>,<a href="https://www.biologists.com/read-publish/malmad/"> MALMAD</a>, the <a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/national-institutes-of-health/">National Institutes of Health</a>, <a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/read-publish-agreement-with-the-ontario-council-of-university-libraries-consortium-ocul/">OCUL</a>, <a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/read-publish-open-access-agreement-with-the-south-african-national-library-and-information-consortium-sanlic/">SANLiC</a>, the <a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/csic">Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)</a> and <a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/agreement-with-the-zb-med-consortium-germany/">ZB Med – Information Centre for Life Sciences</a>.</p> <p>We have also signed variations of our standard Read & Publish agreements with the <a href="https://www.biologists.com/read-publish/max-planck-digital-library/">Max Planck Digital Library</a> and the <a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/university-of-california/">University of California</a>.</p> <p>In addition, we have signed a landmark agreement with <a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/eifl">Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL)</a> which enables corresponding authors in 33 developing and transition economy countries to publish Open Access research articles in our journals without paying an article processing charge (APC).</p> <ul> <li>Read <a href="#consortia">what library consortia say</a> about our Read & Publish agreements</li> </ul> </div> <div class="white-block"> <h2>What do our Read & Publish agreements offer? How is pricing calculated?</h2> <p>Our standard Read & Publish agreements offer:</p> <ul> <li>Unlimited access to our three hybrid journals – <a href="https://journals.biologists.com/dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Development</a>, <a href="https://journals.biologists.com/jcs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Journal of Cell Science</a> and <a href="https://journals.biologists.com/jeb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Journal of Experimental Biology</a> – and their full archives dating back to 1853</li> <li>uncapped, immediate and fee-free Open Access publishing of research articles for corresponding authors in our hybrid journals plus our two fully Open Access journals – <a href="https://journals.biologists.com/dmm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Disease Models & Mechanisms</a> and <a href="https://journals.biologists.com/bio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biology Open</a>.</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Pricing for standard Read & Publish agreements is calculated on the basis of the number of institutions within the consortium that wish to participate and their historic publishing and subscription spend.</span></p> <p>We are also happy to discuss alternative Open Access models with library consortia.</p> <p><strong>Quick links to further information:</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/Read-Publish-A5-Landscape-5J-Library-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View our Read & Publish flyer</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/Read-Publish-initiative-from-The-Company-of-Biologists-February-2024-4.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View our Read & Publish slide deck</a></li> <li>View our journal flyers: <a href="https://www.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/All-journals-2024-for-website.pdf">All journals</a> | <a href="https://www.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/DEV-Read-Publish-Flyer-2pp.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Development</a> | <a href="https://www.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/JCS-Read-Publish-Flyer-2pp.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Journal of Cell Science</a> | <a href="https://www.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/JEB-Read-Publish-Flyer-2pp.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Journal of Experimental Biology</a> | <a href="https://www.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/DMM-Read-Publish-Flyer-2pp.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Disease Models & Mechanisms</a> | <a href="https://www.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/BO-Read-Publish-Flyer-2pp.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biology Open</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/read-publish-open-access-videos/">Browse our Read & Publish and Open Access video collection</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="white-block"> <h1><a name="consortia"></a>What do library consortia say?</h1> <p>We have had great feedback from library consortia (see below) and also from <a href="/library-hub/read-publish/feedback-from-librarians">librarians </a>at participating institutions.</p> <p style="clear:right;"><strong>Rita Aires, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany</strong></p><figure style="width: 150px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://www.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/Photo_Rita-Aires-150x150.jpg" class="alignright wp-post-image" alt="Rita Aires, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany" data-attachment-id="22064" data-permalink="https://www.biologists.com/quotes/rita-aires-technische-universitat-dresden-germany/photo_rita-aires/" data-orig-file="https://www.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/Photo_Rita-Aires.jpg" data-orig-size="1615,1493" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Photo_Rita Aires" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://www.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/Photo_Rita-Aires-300x277.jpg" data-large-file="https://www.biologists.com/wp-content/uploads/Photo_Rita-Aires-1024x947.jpg" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Rita Aires, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany</figcaption></figure><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"Open Access is crucial to make research available to everyone, anytime. Knowing that the Technische Universität Dresden, through its state library (SLUB), was part of the Read & Publish Open Access initiative made our choice of journal a lot easier, especially when this agreement comprises high-quality journals such as Disease Models & Mechanisms. Not having to use valuable funding for an APC was a welcome change and will encourage me to publish again in journals from The Company of Biologists. I hope this paves the way for other publishers to join similar agreements so that science can become more inclusive and equitable!"</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="https://journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/17/9/dmm050743/362194/Axolotl-mandible-regeneration-occurs-through" target="_blank">Read Rita Aires' article in Disease Models & Mechanisms</a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Rich Schneider, University of California at San Francisco, USA</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"I’m thrilled that the University of California has renewed its transformative Open Access agreement with The Company of Biologists, a mission-driven, community-led publisher that shares UC’s goal of making the scholarly publishing landscape more open. I was a member of the team that negotiated the first Open Access agreement between UC and The Company of Biologists. I have been an author with The Company of Biologists for more than 20 years, and since the start of UC’s partnership with the Company in 2021, UC authors have published more than 85 Open Access articles in its journals, increasing the visibility and impact of their research. I hope that even more UC authors will take advantage of this renewed agreement and make their scholarship freely available to researchers and anyone else around the world by publishing Open Access in The Company of Biologists’ journals."</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="" target="_blank"></a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Sainul Abideen, IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"Researchers from IISERs are very keen to publish articles in an Open Access model, without any financial burden. The agreement between the IISER Library Consortium and The Company of Biologists will boost the publications from the participating IISERs."</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="" target="_blank"></a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Sandeep Pathak, IISER Bhopal, India</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"Read & Publish agreements are an alternative to the traditional subscription model. This agreement will help the researchers/authors from IISERs gradually tip the balance of their publishing output towards Open Access, making the process smoother and research more impactful. The recent collaboration with The Company of Biologists signals a promising surge in scholarly output from IISERs, ushering in a new era of accessible and impactful research. With a Read & Publish agreement in place at IISER Bhopal, article processing charges (APCs) will be waived by the publisher and authors can publish gold Open Access (OA). Authors will also have access to every paper in their journal portfolio."</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="" target="_blank"></a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Marina Mikhaylova, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"Thanks to the Read & Publish agreement between the Humboldt University and The Company of Biologists, we are able to publish our research as Open Access in Journal of Cell Science without any additional cost. We are always committed to making our research openly accessible to benefit the wider community. Public accessibility is crucial for science communication and promoting scientific knowledge, and we therefore strongly support this Open Access initiative."</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/137/8/jcs261737/347082/Efficient-axonal-transport-of-endolysosomes-relies" target="_blank">Read Marina Mikhaylova's article in Journal of Cell Science</a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Harald Wolf, University of Ulm, Germany</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"Quite apart from the fact that Journal of Experimental Biology is my favourite journal, owing to both focus and breadth of my research interests, I was aware that my home university had a Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists and that was actually a major reason for choosing JEB for our publication. I have been retired for 2 years now and thus would not have had any funds available to cover Open Access charges. It came as a pleasant surprise how little effort it was to obtain the APC waiver and the copy editing and the other publication services were also excellent."</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/227/10/jeb247104/352181/Geometrical-multiscale-tortuosity-of-desert-ant" target="_blank">Read Harald Wolf's article in Journal of Experimental Biology</a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Ellen Tise, SANLiC, South Africa</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"SANLiC is excited to collaborate with The Company of Biologists to repurpose reading expenditure, enabling our researchers to publish in The Company of Biologists’ hybrid and fully Open Access journals at no fee. We need a world where under-resourced researchers can participate meaningfully in research production and dissemination. So, we are very pleased!"</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/read-publish-open-access-agreement-with-the-south-african-national-library-and-information-consortium-sanlic/" target="_blank">Find out more about our Read & Publish agreement with SANLiC</a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Sung-Chul Moon, The Korea University of College Library Association, Korea South</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"The KCUE Consortium is a joint purchasing consortium of university libraries in the Republic of Korea. The 2024-2026 Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists is the second Open Access conversion agreement for the KCUE Consortium. With this contract, universities have secured both The Company of Biologists’ journals and Open Access publishing rights and can contribute to the spread of open science, where academic research outputs are freely available not only to university researchers but also to anyone in the world. In the future, the KCUE Consortium plans to accelerate Open Access conversion agreements with more publishers."</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/read-publish-open-access-agreement-with-both-the-kesli-and-kcue-consortia/" target="_blank">Find out more about our Read & Publish agreement with the KESLI and KCUE Consortia</a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Kim Wan-Jong, Korea Institute of Science and Information (KISTI), Korea South</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"It is a great pleasure to announce the inclusion of The Company of Biologists in the KESLI Consortium through their committed Read & Publish agreement. This agreement marks a significant step in the long journey to full Open Access. Through the Korean E-resource Service for Library (KESLI) Consortium, we will cooperate with Open Access innovators, including global publishers and the research community, to advance Open Access in the Republic of Korea."</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/read-publish-open-access-agreement-with-both-the-kesli-and-kcue-consortia/" target="_blank">Find out more about our Read & Publish agreement with the KESLI and KCUE Consortia</a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Sawako Kojin, JUSTICE, Japan</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"With JUSTICE’s agreement to The Company of Biologists’ Read & Publish proposal, we are pleased to introduce a model for promoting open access in the field of biology for Japanese universities. JUSTICE believes in the importance of a healthy ecosystem for the distribution of scholarly information. We hope that the agreement with The Company of Biologists, a non-profit publishing house, will provide an opportunity to expand the diversity within the publication, rather than solely focusing on large commercial publishers."</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/read-publish-open-access-agreement-with-justice/" target="_blank">Find out more about our Read & Publish agreement with JUSTICE</a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Dorothea Schulte , Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"I am delighted that the Read & Publish agreement between The Company of Biologists and Goethe University Frankfurt allowed me to publish our latest article in Journal of Cell Science Open Access free of charge. It is extremely important that peer-reviewed scientific results are made freely available as soon as possible and by as many as possible. The entire Open Access process was simple, straightforward, author-friendly and, like the entire publishing process with The Company of Biologists, a thoroughly positive experience."</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/137/4/jcs261482/344018/The-neuronal-transcription-factor-MEIS2-is-a" target="_blank">Read Dorothea Schulte's article in Journal of Cell Science</a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Ádám Dér, Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), Germany</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"We at the MPDL are delighted to extend our collaboration with The Company of Biologists, which means we can continue to offer our researchers the possibility to publish open access in all the publisher’s journals as well as access to all previously published content. Providing these opportunities to our authors is at the heart of our overall strategy in the world of scholarly publishing, in line with the Max Planck Society’s vision of openness, which in turn reflects the principles of the OA2020 Initiative and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access."</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/max-planck-digital-library/" target="_blank">Find out more about our Read & Publish agreement with The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL)</a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Agnès Ponsati, Spanish National Research Council, Spain</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"In 2021, CSIC signed a transformative agreement with The Company of Biologists that supported the publisher’s transition to Read & Publish models. URICI, in its strategy of promoting open access to research outputs, has followed the path of collaborating in this transition with both large publishers and smaller ones, such as The Company of Biologists. In the renewal of this agreement for 2024, the step is taken to also incorporate two fully Open Access journals, since they have been shown to be of great interest among the CSIC’s biology community."</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/csic/" target="_blank">Find out more about our Read & Publish agreement with CSIC</a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Petra Labriga, Head of Strategic Licensing, ZB Med – Information Centre for Life Sciences, Germany</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"In our role as the German Information Center for Life Sciences, ZB Med is strongly invested in helping German life scientists publish their work Open Access in an affordable yet highly professional environment. Focusing on Open Access and transformative agreements for German Life Sciences, we invite all interested German academic and research institutions and hospitals to join this consortium agreement with The Company of Biologists to take advantage of this non-APC based, uncapped author publishing opportunity."</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/agreement-with-the-zb-med-consortium-germany/" target="_blank">Find out more about our Read & Publish agreement with ZB Med - Information Centre for Life Sciences</a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Lorraine Estelle, Licensing Programme Manager, EIFL, Lithuania</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"We are glad that corresponding authors from EIFL partner countries will be able to publish Open Access in all The Company of Biologists’ journals. We value the partnership with the Company and welcome the extension of the agreement for three more years for free access and publishing for 30 EIFL partner countries."</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/eifl/" target="_blank">Find out more about our Read & Publish agreement with EIFL</a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Flora Ng, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"As stated in the JULAC’s Position Statement on Open Scholarship, JULAC is committed to enabling Open Access (OA) to research publications. This agreement with The Company of Biologists is an example of the tangible support that libraries can provide to their institution’s researchers in making their work Open Access."</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/agreement-with-the-julac-consortium-hong-kong/" target="_blank">Find out more about our Read & Publish agreement with the JULAC Consortium</a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>P Visakhi, Umeshareddy Kacherki and K Murugaraj, IISER, India</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"We are delighted with the new Read & Publish agreement between The Company of Biologists and the IISER Library Consortium. Researchers at participating institutions will benefit from the ability to publish an unlimited number of Open Access articles in all five journals. This mutually agreed arrangement is expected to yield excellent results within the Open Science landscape."</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/agreement-with-the-iiser-consortium-india/" target="_blank">Find out more about our Read & Publish agreement with the IISER Consortium</a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Jack Hyland, IReL, Ireland</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"The Company of Biologists was one of the first publishers IReL signed a Read & Publish agreement with. We have been impressed with how they have been a leading example of a small, not-for-profit publisher offering their Read & Publish to libraries and consortia globally, and how they have been active in sharing emerging best practice in OA publishing with the scholarly communications community"</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/irel/" target="_blank">Find out more about our Read & Publish agreement with IReL</a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Sigal Lahav Scher, MALMAD, Israel</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"The Company of Biologists was one of the first publishers MALMAD signed a Read & Publish agreement with. We are now very pleased to renew the agreement, covering the costs for researchers at seven institutions in Israel to publish an unlimited number of Open Access articles in all three of The Company’s hybrid journals, whilst also giving them reading access. Our continued cooperation is an important step in the transition to Open Access."</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/malmad/" target="_blank">Find out more about our Read & Publish agreement with MALMAD</a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Anna Lundén, National Library of Sweden, Sweden</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"We are very pleased with the new Read & Publish agreement between The Company of Biologists and the Bibsam Consortium, covering costs for Swedish researchers at participating institutions to publish an unlimited number of Open Access articles in all five of The Company of Biologists’ journals, whilst also giving them read access. To sign transformative agreements with small not-for-profit publishers is an important step in line with our action plan to advance Open Science."</p></blockquote><p style="margin-bottom:0px;"><a href="https://www.biologists.com/library-hub/read-publish/library-consortia/bibsam/" target="_blank">Find out more about our Read & Publish agreement with the Bibsam Consortium</a></p><br/><p style="clear:right;"><strong>Angus Cook, Content Procurement at the Council of Australian LIbrarians (CAUL), Australia</strong></p><blockquote style="overflow:hidden;margin-bottom:10px;"><p style="text-align: left;">"Having a Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists, commencing in 2022, is an important continuation of CAUL’s progression to providing broader Open Access arrangements via consortium agreements. 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