Tim Pringle, the editor of The China Quarterly, said on Twitter that the press “intends to repost immediately the articles removed from its website in China.” Professor Pringle said the decision was made “after a justifiably intense reaction from the global academic community and beyond.”

Professor Pringle said in a telephone interview from London that Cambridge University Press would also make the reposted papers available free of charge, doing away with the hefty charge that one-time readers of the site usually pay.

“It puts academic freedom where it needs to be, which is ahead of economic concerns,” Professor Pringle said.

Cambridge University Press said in an online statement that its decision to cut the papers had been temporary, ahead of planned talks with the publishing agent that have not yet been held. “The university’s academic leadership and the press have agreed to reinstate the blocked content, with immediate effect, so as to uphold the principle of academic freedom on which the university’s work is founded,” it said.

On Tuesday, searches for potentially sensitive topics like “Tiananmen” on the Cambridge University Press’s webpage for The China Quarterly indicated that many papers and reviews were now downloadable free of charge, including in China.