Open Access is the right thing for science, and it’s so much easier to do the right thing when it is free! I’m very thankful to Columbia and The Company of Biologists for absorbing the cost of open access publishing through the Read & Publish agreement. The money saved will directly advance our research into gut morphogenesis, as well as efforts to support the training of diverse and inspired scientists of the future.
I was thrilled when I found out that Purdue University has a fee-free Open Access Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists. Saving these dollars allowed me to spend dollars on research, and not publication fees. Publishing Open Access increases readership and sharing of data.
For the second time, I find myself very thankful for the agreement between The Company of Biologists and The University of Akron. I very much favor publishing my articles Open Access, but as a post-doc with limited funds, I can’t pay for high APCs. The Read & Publish agreement has twice given me the opportunity of APC-free Open Access!
We are delighted to publish our article in Journal of Cell Science. The manuscript was handled professionally throughout and the whole process was straightforward. I am particularly happy the University of Manchester has a Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists which made the Open Access publication of the accepted version rapid and painless. I would thoroughly recommend JCS to other investigators in the field.
Publishing our paper Open Access in Journal of Experimental Biology gives us the best of all worlds. We really appreciate the fact our work can be read by all scientists immediately upon acceptance.
So glad I checked my institution is participating in the Read & Publish initiative!
Publishing in an Open Access journal is rewarding because your work becomes accessible to a broader audience. However, the expenses associated with Open Access journals can be a barrier, especially for research projects with limited funding. Fortunately, our institution’s Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists allowed us to publish our article fee-free and Open Access in Biology Open. This agreement is exceptionally valuable for researchers and provides an excellent opportunity to share their work without financial constraints.
We were delighted that The Company of Biologists has a Read & Publish agreement with the University of Cambridge. Such agreements are fundamental to the culture of Open Access without financial burden. It’s great to see agreements in place which include less-established institutions and researchers and ensure better access to publishing across the globe.
Being able to publish the group’s article immediately under a Read & Publish agreement with the University of Würzburg massively streamlined the final stages of the publication process. Instead of protracted paperwork, the post-acceptance process was completed extremely quickly and the fact that the article was immediately Open Access was the icing on the cake.
It’s fantastic to see a top-tier publishing house such as The Company of Biologists taking such proactive steps to ensure that research reaches the public domain as fast as possible and that researchers can spend their time (and money!) focusing on science.
I was delighted to utilize the Read & Publish agreement between The Company of Biologists and the University of Missouri-Columbia, which ensures a fee-free and Open Access publication. When we shared the news of our publication online, researchers in the community as well as friends and family could instantly access and read our work. Additionally, the funds that would have been otherwise used to pay publication fees can now be spent on research. The Company of Biologists is leading the way in the Open Access movement.
The first paper from my lab was published in Journal of Cell Science and the entire process (review, handling, publishing) was very simple, especially using the Read & Publish agreement that I was not aware of until then. Having experienced various barriers to Open Access with subsequent manuscripts, when we had a good story within the remit of JCS, it was a no-brainer to send our follow up work there. The Read & Publish agreement was certainly a factor in this, especially as gold OA is a requirement of my funders.