Trends in Glycoscience and Glycotechnology (TIGG), collaboratively edited by Forum: Carbohydrate Coming of Age (FCCA) and Japanese Society for Carbohydrate Research (JSCR), reports up-to-date information in the fields of glycoscience and glycotechnology. The released final version of accepted articles of TIGG is made freely available at J-STAGE after three years. From 2015, TIGG became a hybrid open access journal. The authors of accepted peer-reviewed articles have an option for TIGG Immediate Open Access (IOA) by charge as well as TIGG three year-Delayed Open Access (DOA) for free.