Biochemical Society journals transformed

"We’re delighted to share that we will have a compliant open access (OA) route for all papers published in Biochemical Society journals in 2025, completing our planned transformation to an OA publisher.   

We made a pledge to create funder and institutionally compliant OA routes for all published articles to Plan S deadlines, and we are proud to share we have achieved this through four OA pathways, the fourth being Subscribe to Open to be implemented in 2025. Forces guiding the pace and method of our transition were:   

• our strategic mission to ensure greater equity, diversity, and inclusion;   

• actors within the scholarly communications landscape who set the agenda and provided guidance; organisations such as the Subscribe to Open Community of Practice, the Society Publishers Coalition, Jisc, CAUL and our many other consortia partners, ALPSP, UKRI, Wellcome, Plan S and more.  

• our scientific community who sees value in producing and sharing results that (with more open data) are reproducible and readily accessible regardless of economic circumstances of region, institution, or career stage. ..."