Skip Nav Destination

Open Scholarship

As the Biochemical Society’s publisher, we’re embedding equitable, inclusive, and sustainable open practices that support the bioscience community and provide all authors with compliant open access routes to publication. Our open science initiatives are helping to drive the impact and reach of our authors’ work, supporting our core mission to share and promote knowledge from across the molecular biosciences.

Learn about Read & Publish

The Biochemical Society and Portland Press are transitioning towards open access (OA). To support and accelerate this transition to OA, we are offering pilot deals to several hundred institutional subscribers through Read & Publish alternatives to regular subscriptions (i.e., transformative renewals) facing individual institutions and via ‘transformative’ agreements signed with consortia.

FIND OUT MORE

Open data

Open data forms one of the key tenets of our ongoing transition to open scholarship. We support the principles that research data should be findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). We’re committed to working collaboratively across the molecular bioscience community, making data available in a way that best supports the understanding and advancement of future research.

FIND OUT MORE

Independent society publishers and the path to open scholarship

We’re scaling up our open scholarship ambitions and are working with our communities to identify and deliver more open publishing services. Find out more about our work to support broader research endeavours as we look towards equitable, inclusive, and sustainable open practices in support of the molecular bioscience community.

FIND OUT MORE

Open Scholarship Position Statement

The Biochemical Society and Portland Press support open scholarship, the name given to a change in the culture of scholarly research, enabled by developing technologies and new opportunities for communication and collaboration, and encompassing topics such as open access, open data, metrics, research integrity, and public engagement.

FIND OUT MORE

Society Publishers’ Coalition

We’re proud to be part of the Society Publishers’ Coalition alongside other learned societies and membership charities. Together, we’re working with researchers, funders, institutions, and other stakeholders as we look to co-develop publishing models for the future.