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Transformative agreements

Transformative agreements are contracts negotiated between institutions and publishers that transform the business model underlying scholarly publishing towards a fully open access model.

Company of Biologists - Read & Publish - 2024-2026

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The Company of Biologists announced a new three-year Read & Publish Open Access agreement with the South African National Library and Information Consortium (SANLiC). This is the Company’s first consortium agreement in South Africa and Worldwide Information Services agency (WWIS), our representative in South Africa, was influential in helping establish this agreement.

The agreement will run from 1 January 2024 until 31 December 2026, and corresponding authors at participating institutions can publish an uncapped number of research articles immediately Open Access (OA) in our hybrid journals (Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology) and our fully Open Access journals (Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open) without paying an article processing charge (APC).

Researchers at participating institutions also benefit from unlimited access to our hybrid journals, including their full archives dating back to 1853.

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