Rockefeller University Press
Read-and-Publish Agreement Author Experience

If your institution has a Read-and-Publish agreement with Rockefeller University Press and you are theprimary corresponding author publishing in Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Experimental Medicine, orJournal of General Physiology, you are entitled to Gold Open Access publication with all fees covered bythe deal. Please follow the steps in this document to ensure that your manuscript is recognized as partof the deal.

Initial Submission

Figure 1. Submission form with Author Information tab selected.

Read-and-Publish eligibility is based on the manuscript affiliation for the primary corresponding author,
which is indicated by the checked box as shown in Fig. 1, Area 1. This will be checked by default if you
are the submitting author.
RUP’s deals are driven by underlying Research Organization Registry (ROR) IDs. Authors must validate
their institution by selecting it from a ROR type-ahead menu. As displayed in Fig. 1, Area 2, the Validate
Institution link must be clicked to select your institution. At this step, you should select the institutionthat is your current institution for correspondence purposes.

Figure 2. Search for Organizations screen.

After clicking Validate Institution, the Search for Organizations interface will pop up. Entering search text
in the Institution field presents a list of matching names as a selectable menu. Select the correct nameand click Save. Note that you may need to adjust your search term(s) to locate your institution. Don’t beconcerned if the name does not appear exactly as you’d like it to in the published affiliation. We will use
the text that has been provided in your manuscript file.
ROR IDs were developed as a top-level identifier, and in some cases, you will not find a medical school orhospital. In those cases, please find and select the top-level identifier for your institution.
Note that, because there are rare instances of institutions that do not have a ROR ID, the system allows
you to save without selecting from the list. However, doing so will result in the manuscript not being
recognized as part of a deal. See Figs. 3 and 4 below.

Figure 3. Successful validation.

Figure 4. Invalid selection.

Multiple Manuscript Affiliations for Corresponding Author
If the institution selected as your current address is not the same as your manuscript affiliation, or if you
have additional manuscript affiliations, you should add those, being sure to re-enter the institution you
entered above if it is also a manuscript affiliation.
To do so, select Yes to the question Does this author have any manuscript affiliations that are different
from or in addition to the above address, as shown in Fig. 5, Area 1 below.

Once Yes is selected, you will have the ability to add institution names by validating (Fig. 5, Area 2) as
described above.
If you have multiple affiliations, use the Add affiliation link shown in Fig. 5, Area 3.

Figure 5. Detail of Fig. 1, Area 3

License to Publish Choices
If the manuscript is accepted for publication, the corresponding author will receive an email with a link
to complete a License to Publish. For manuscripts eligible for Read-and-Publish agreements, the below
splash screen will be presented to the author.

Figure 6. License options.

The preselected option is to make the article part of the Read-and-Publish agreement. To publish
immediate Open Access under a CC-BY license at no cost to the author, keep this selection and click
Continue to License to Publish Form at the bottom of the screen.

We recommend that the author always take advantage of the deal, but we do allow other options.
The author may choose to be invoiced directly for the same immediate Open Access CC-BY publicationor to make the article open after 6 months under a CC-BY-NC-SA license, also invoiced directly.

Invoice
The invoice will indicate that the Open Access fee has been paid for by the institution.

Figure 7. A zero balance Invoice indicating that the fee has been paid by the institution.