We are delighted to announce that the number of institutions participating in our costneutral Read & Publish Open Access (OA) initiative in North America increased by 124% between January 2022 and January 2023.

Over 130 institutions in Canada and the USA are now participating. We have signed agreements with library consortia in the USA, including the University of California, and more agreements are in the pipeline.

The number of Open Access articles funded by Read & Publish agreements with institutions in North America increased by more than 51% in 2022, and we are expecting further growth in 2023.

We are also delighted that a high proportion of libraries have opted to include our fully OA journals – Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open – in their Read & Publish agreements in 2023.

Shelly Turner, Head of Sales and Business Development at The Company of Biologists, says:
“The impressive growth in North American institutions participating in our cost-neutral
Read & Publish initiative is very encouraging, and I am looking forward to continuing discussions with librarians and library consortia during my visit to the USA this month. I will be attending ER&L from 5-8 March, ACRL from 15-18 March and the NAS Journal Summit on 22 March. I will also be visiting a range of institutions during my trip.”

Claire Moulton, Publisher at The Company of Biologists, says:
“It is great that the number of Open Access articles funded by Read & Publish agreements with institutions in North America increased by over 51% in 2022, and this helped us to meet our Transformative Journal targets for OA growth. We have also had fantastic feedback from authors who have benefitted from immediate and fee-free OA publishing in both our hybrid and fully OA journals thanks to Read & Publish agreements with their institutions.”

Read the announcement online at: biologists.com/library-hub/news/read-publishannouncement-north-america