Publishing our paper in the journal Disease Models & Mechanisms was made seamless thanks to the Read & Publish Open Access agreement between the University of Cambridge and The Company of Biologists. With a few easy clicks, this agreement enabled us to publish our paper fee-free, and with Open Access for all readers around the world.
Publishing our recent paper in Journal of Cell Science was a delightful experience. Not only was the process quick, easy and well supported, it also allowed immediate Open Access without paying an article processing charge (APC). Fabulous to see that contributions to the research community are rewarded by The Company of Biologists instead of contributors being punished by ever increasing publishing fees. And our tree in The Forest of Biologists! What a wonderful initiative, yet another reason to publish in JCS.
We were delighted to find that we could publish in Development as an Open Access fee-free article thanks to the Read & Publish agreement with The University of Melbourne. This is a terrific initiative that supports the scientific community and saves valuable research dollars. There is no doubt that this program will encourage us to consider submitting our future work to The Company of Biologists’ journals.
Thanks to the Read & Publish agreement between the University of Tokyo and The Company of Biologists, we are able to publish our research as Open Access in Journal of Cell Science without any additional cost. I believe it is very important that everyone can access research findings, and I am very grateful for this initiative. I look forward to more journals adopting similar policies, and we hope that the development of science will advance even further by sharing the results of the latest research with a broader audience and using research funds more efficiently for science.
I am grateful with my university (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) for the efforts to reach a convenient Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists. This is a great achievement considering that most scientific research in Mexico is funded by government grants, which have been significantly cut in recent years. The publication of articles in influential journals such as Development and Biology Open should increase the visibility and impact of work done by our scientific community.
Having a publishing agreement with my university already in place made it easy and convenient to publish our paper, without having to spend funds from our research projects.
Publishing for free in Journal of Cell Science with a Read & Publish agreement took away any concerns about having to find extra money. Having had issues with finding publisher fees before, this took a big load off my mind and let me focus on the important parts – the actual science! Having an Oak tree planted in The Forest of Biologists made it extra special.
It’s been a pleasure again to publish in one of the journals from The Company of Biologists through Read & Publish. We have now saved over ten thousand dollars in publication fees in the last year alone. These are precious funds saved that can be used instead to directly support our research, through things like purchasing key reagents or paying student salary. My only complaint is that there aren’t more journals from The Company of Biologists available!
LaBonne Lab had a fantastic experience publishing two recent articles in Development and we were so happy to learn that both could be published fee-free Open Access under The Company of Biologists’ Read & Publish agreement with Northwestern University. Thank you for setting up this fantastic program! You are an example for other journals. And at the risk of going out on a limb, we are rooting for our trees in The Forest of Biologists, lovingly named LaboraTree and ReLeaf.
Development is one of the most influential and important journals in developmental biology, so I am thankful that the Read & Publish agreement between The Company of Biologists and The University of Edinburgh allows our research to be accessed widely, globally, both within the scientific community and to the general public, in a fair and democratising way. The Read & Publish agreement also allows us, active in research today to maintain contact with the research and findings of a previous generation of scientists; it is tremendously important that this knowledge is actively used and treasured.
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