Over 650 institutions in 41 countries are participating in The Company of Biologists’ Read & Publish initiative in 2023
Over 650 institutions in 41 countries are now participating. In addition, a further two library consortia; the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER) and the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) Consortium in Hong Kong, have also recently signed agreements increasing the number of participating consortia to 12.
The success of our Read & Publish initiative is continuing to drive significant growth in the proportion of OA research content in our hybrid journals – Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology – which were the first in the world to be afforded Transformative Journal status by Plan S. All three Transformative Journals met their targets for Open Access growth in both 2021 and 2022. Our increasing proportions of OA content are driven by our Read & Publish agreements, which represented 71% of the total number of Open Access articles published in the hybrid journals in 2022.
We are also delighted that nearly half of participating libraries have opted to include our fully Open Access journals - Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open – in their Read & Publish agreements in 2023.
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