Following the success of the first three-year Read & Publish Open Access (OA) agreement, The Company of Biologists and IReL, have signed a renewal agreement from 1 January 2023 – 31 December 2025.
All eleven institutions that were participating in the 2020-2022 agreement have chosen to renew and, for the first time, the new agreement includes uncapped and fee-free publishing in The Company of Biologists’ fully OA journals – Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open.
Researchers at participating institutions can continue to publish research articles immediately OA without charge in The Company’s hybrid journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology. They also have unlimited access to the journals and their archives dating back to 1853.
The following institutions are participating in the 2023-2025 Read & Publish agreement: Dublin City University, Higher Education Authority, Maynooth University, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Science Foundation Ireland, Technological University Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, University College Dublin, University of Galway, and University of Limerick.
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