New Read & Publish agreement between The Company of Biologists and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)

The Company of Biologists is delighted to announce a new Read & Publish Open Access agreement with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS).

The agreement, secured with the support of our regional agent, Charlesworth, runs throughout 2025 and is available to all 35 member institutions, including the Academy’s publishing house.

Corresponding authors at participating institutions in China can publish an uncapped number of research articles immediately Open Access (OA) in our transformative 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 transformative journals, including their full archives dating back to 1853.

Read the full announcement here.