1000-up for The Company of Biologists’ Read & Publish initiative

The Company of Biologists now has 1,000 institutions participating in its cost-neutral Read & Publish Open Access (OA) initiative.

Institutions in 53 countries are now participating; there are agreements with 20 library consortia, and the organisation has recently renewed agreements with BIBSAM, CAUL and Jisc. It says it has seen growth in many regions, with the support of consortia representatives and regional partners.

The Company says: “In Europe, we have seen growth in Germany, (thanks to ZB Med – Information for Life Sciences), Italy and Spain. There has been significant growth in Asia/S. E. Asia — Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China — thanks to the Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources (JUSTICE); the Korean E-resource Service for Library Consortium (KESLI); the Korean Council for University Education Consortium (KCUE); the Digital Resource Acquisition Alliance of Chinese Academic Libraries (DRAA), and our most recent agreement with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), respectively. We continue to see a significant increase in North America and in developing and transition economy countries through our agreement with Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL).”

Shelly Turner, Sales & Marketing Director at The Company of Biologists, added: “We would like to thank our library customers and consortia partners throughout the world for their support of our Read & Publish initiative – without you, we would not have reached this amazing milestone. We are absolutely thrilled that such a significant number of institutions are able to access our content, and that more and more researchers from around the globe can publish fee-free OA research articles in our journals.”

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