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Research Publishing & Impact: Portland Press

Portland Press: OA Publishing Agreement

This 2025 uncapped agreement includes 5 hybrid journal titles and 2 Gold OA journal titles, which allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access with no transactional article processing charges (APCs).

Portland Press, as the Biochemical Society’s publisher, works in partnership with researchers, institutions, and funders to share knowledge and advance the molecular biosciences.

Article eligibility

Articles accepted from 1/1/2025 are eligible to be published open access under this agreement.

Included titles

Biochemical Society journals included in the CAUL Portland Read and Publish Agreement include:

  • Biochemical Journal
  • Bioscience Reports (fully OA)
  • Clinical Science
  • Neuronal Signaling (fully OA)
  • Biochemical Society Transactions
  • Emerging Topics in Life Sciences
  • Essays in Biochemistry

Hybrid journals that 'flip' to OA during the course of this agreement will remain available for OA publishing for the duration of the agreement.

Article types

The following article types are eligible for open access under this agreement:

  • All

There are no exclusions.

Other charges

Portland Press does not charge additional fees for page and/or colour fees. Authors should always check each journal’s submission guidelines to ensure that they will not be subject to any other fees or charges.

Author eligibility

As defined by the publisher, the eligible author is:

Eligibility for our Read & Publish deal is based on a corresponding author’s primary affiliation.

Responsible corresponding authors must include a participating institution as one of their affiliations to benefit from this agreement. 

Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their:

  • institutional affiliation

Responsible corresponding authors must use their @otago.ac.nz email address when submitting an article for publication. 

Responsible corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement. 

Author rights

Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the following Creative Commons licenses:

  • CC BY

Authors retain all rights as per the CC license.

Further information about licenses is available on the publisher's website.

The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. 

How to submit your article for open access publishing

he following instructions for authors have been provided by the publisher. Further details are available on the publisher’s website.

1. Author submits their paper to any Portland Press journal.
2. Author validates their institutional affiliation during submission and is immediately told if they are eligible to publish under an R&P agreement.
3. R&P article is automatically published open access upon acceptance without the need for any additional payment or funding approval.
4. Librarians can log in to their RightsLink institutional portal and see all R&P papers at a glance.  

Example screenshot(s):

Further information

Further information on the agreement and the Read & Publish process, including FAQs for authors, is available on the publisher's website.

 

Sharing via repositories

Green open access
  • There is no automated loading to institutional repositories.
Other repositories 

The publisher submits open access articles and metadata to all relevant third-party repositories, such as PubMed Central, Europe PubMed Central, Google Scholar (all journals, crawled by Google), CAS, Web of Science, Scopus, and Embase.

Archiving in institutional repositories

Biochemical Society will notify authors of the Read & Publish agreement during the peer review process and supply an un-embargoed PDF of the version of record for institutional repositories. 

Contact details: Portland Press

Please email sales@portlandpress.com for questions regarding this agreement. Please include your full name, institution, article title, journal name and DOI (if available), and state the reason for your enquiry.

Sharing via repositories

Green open access
  • There is no automated loading to institutional repositories.
Other repositories 

The publisher submits open access articles and metadata to all relevant third-party repositories, such as PubMed Central, Europe PubMed Central, Google Scholar (all journals, crawled by Google), CAS, Web of Science, Scopus, and Embase.