Facilitating the move to open science

Our Read and Publish (R&P) agreements sustainably support open access publishing by helping authors and institutions towards publication in BMJ Group’s highly-ranked journals, while ensuring researchers can make the most of full access to our content.

As specialists in publishing medicine and health sciences research you can be sure that your authors will have the best support from our editorial and content integrity teams, and that your faculty will have access to the latest cutting edge research.

With a straightforward workflow in place, our agreements provide authors and administrators with a seamless, time-saving publishing experience.

Why choose a R&P agreement with BMJ Group?

Expanding global reach

We are expanding our collaborations with institutions and consortia around the world to establish Read and Publish (R&P) agreements. This effort has significantly increased institutionally-sponsored open access publishing of medical content. As of 2025, over 200 institutions globally benefit from our R&P agreement.

Committed to quality in open access and hybrid publishing

BMJ Group publishes around 30 fully open access journals and a wide range of hybrid journals. We are fully committed to both content and organisational integrity – we care as much about the quality of your author’s work as you do. Over 80% of our indexed journals rank in the top half of their category.
Learn more about our portfolio of journals.

Amplify your researchers' reach by publishing with us

Our open access content receives, on average, 7 times more views than other content, significantly enhancing the reach of your institution’s research.

A trusted leader in medicine and health sciences

Our reputation is entrenched in medicine and health sciences – we’re the 9th most cited publisher in Clinical Medicine, 12th in Public Health, and 8th in Health Services Research.

Not ready for a R&P agreement yet?

We offer flexible institutional options that might work better for you.

Prepay account
This advance payment system allows institutions to deposit funds to cover the cost of open access publishing in any of our journals. The article processing charge (minus a discount) is deducted from the account balance upon acceptance of an article.

Membership account
Member institutions pay an annual fee (based on their open access output with our journals in the previous year), which grants all authors at the institution a discount on the article processing charge when submitting to any of our titles.

Amplifying your institution’s research impact

Take a look at the real world impact of publishing your institution’s research open access with us, through these stories from JISC (UK)  and BSB (Germany).

More than 20% of JISC articles published with BMJ Group in this period (2018 – 2022) were cited in clinical guidance or health policy documents (compared to 6.3% in cohort data), with 6,655 citations in total, 4.5 times higher than the number of cohort citations.

8% of BSB articles published with BMJ Group in this period (2018 – 2022) were cited in clinical guidance or health policy documents, with 232 citations in total. This is 3.5 times higher than the number of cohort citations.

“Science is accelerating patient care and it is essential to share the outcome of research worldwide. Our multi-year agreement for open access publishing in BMJ Group’s hybrid and Gold OA journals is one of the keystones in the Amsterdam UMC Open Science policy.”

Lieuwe Kool
Director of the Medical Library, Amsterdam University Medical Centre

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