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Portland Press: Read and Publish Agreement

This uncapped agreement includes 5 hybrid journal titles and 2 Gold OA journal titles during 2023, 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.

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

Corresponding authors from institutions listed under 'Participating institutions' may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted, with no transactional APCs. 

Author rights

  • Articles from authors at member institutions may be published under the authors' choice of either CC-BY or CC-BY-NC license. These licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors.
  • Third-party content included in a publication, for example images or graphics, should be clearly labelled and are not affected by these requirements.
  • The Creative Commons CC0 license will be assigned to the data accompanying the open access article.

How to submit your article for open access publishing

Submit your article via the publisher's platform.

You will be recognised as being eligible for open access publishing with no transactional APCs when you select your institution in the submission system.

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. 

Publishing
  • The agreement provides open access publishing in all seven (7) journals listed under 'Included titles' by corresponding authors from institutions listed under 'Participating institutions'.
  • There are no transactional APCs or other service charges for papers submitted by corresponding authors from participating institutions.
  • The Biochemical Society will notify eligible authors of the Read and Publish agreement during the manuscript submission process.
  • The Biochemical Society will supply an un-embargoed PDF of the version of record for institutional repositories.

Library workflows

Using Rightslink, library staff may set up an institutional account to

  • automatically approve all papers submitted by authors, or
  • be notified when a paper is submitted so that they can manually approve it.

Publishing alerts 

  • Library staff can create an institutional account through the Rightslink portal, which allows them to view papers that have been submitted and published.
  • Biochemical Society provides regular publishing reports with article level information.

 

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.