I love the fact that my university has an arrangement with The Company of Biologists that allowed me to publish my article in Journal of Experimental Biology Open Access without me having to find the necessary funding – and it’s even better that The Company of Biologists is a non-profit organisation and that it plants a tree for every paper published. I wish all journals offered to do the same!
I am excited to share that our research paper on somatic cell nuclear reprogramming for clinical use has been published in Biology Open. Thanks to the University of Cambridge’s Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists, we were able to make the publication open access with APC free. With this support, we have fulfilled our funders’ request for open-access publication to promote collaboration and transparent sharing of research findings.
In research, it is essential to have access to knowledge, and therefore to the numerous articles published in all the different fields. For this reason, I am grateful that Lund University is part of the Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists, which has enabled me to publish my latest article in Biology Open in an Open Access format.
It is a great pleasure to announce the inclusion of The Company of Biologists in the KESLI Consortium through their committed Read & Publish agreement. This agreement marks a significant step in the long journey to full Open Access. Through the Korean E-resource Service for Library (KESLI) Consortium, we will cooperate with Open Access innovators, including global publishers and the research community, to advance Open Access in the Republic of Korea.
I am delighted that the Read & Publish agreement between The Company of Biologists and Goethe University Frankfurt allowed me to publish our latest article in Journal of Cell Science Open Access free of charge. It is extremely important that peer-reviewed scientific results are made freely available as soon as possible and by as many as possible. The entire Open Access process was simple, straightforward, author-friendly and, like the entire publishing process with The Company of Biologists, a thoroughly positive experience.
The ability to publish Open Access in Biology Open for free under the Read & Publish agreement with Stanford was very convenient. I am happy that The Company of Biologists and universities are taking steps to make open science more convenient for authors. APC charges can be a barrier to Open Access publishing so I hope other publishers follow this example.
I’m very appreciative to the University of Florida and The Company of Biologists for enabling cost-free, open access publishing through the Read & Publish agreement. More scientists can immediately gain access to our work, and the money saved on my NSF grant can be used to support and train my graduate students and postdocs. A win-win situation!
The KCUE Consortium is a joint purchasing consortium of university libraries in the Republic of Korea. The 2024-2026 Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists is the second Open Access conversion agreement for the KCUE Consortium. With this contract, universities have secured both The Company of Biologists’ journals and Open Access publishing rights and can contribute to the spread of open science, where academic research outputs are freely available not only to university researchers but also to anyone in the world. In the future, the KCUE Consortium plans to accelerate Open Access conversion agreements with more publishers.
With JUSTICE’s agreement to The Company of Biologists’ Read & Publish proposal, we are pleased to introduce a model for promoting open access in the field of biology for Japanese universities. JUSTICE believes in the importance of a healthy ecosystem for the distribution of scholarly information. We hope that the agreement with The Company of Biologists, a non-profit publishing house, will provide an opportunity to expand the diversity within the publication, rather than solely focusing on large commercial publishers.
I value publishing with Development because of their scholarly approach to the editorial process using academic editors. For our most recent paper, I found out that they have a new Read & Publish partnership with Caltech that makes it free for authors to publish and free for everyone else to read our article from day one. Thank you for setting up this great program! Let’s hope many more journals follow suit.
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