The process of publishing in Biology Open under the Read & Publish agreement with MBL-WHOI library went smoothly. Being able to publish fee-free Open Access made our work easily accessible to everyone. The seamless and efficient process enhanced the overall experience and we are grateful for the opportunity.
I have worked with The Company of Biologists multiple times and their review process has always been fast and fair. I am especially excited about their fee-free Open Access option through their institutional Read & Publish agreements. As an early-career researcher, this helps me immensely in publishing my research in that it will be seen by others immediately, aids in my ability to disseminate my research, and it helps to fulfil requirements for Open Access by many funding agencies.
I greatly appreciated that the University of Guelph is in a Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists. Practices like this promote open science and allow more meaningful allocation of resources. I hope that more publishers and universities follow suit, as it collectively benefits the entire scientific community.
CAUL is pleased to continue our Read & Publish Open Access agreement with The Company of Biologists. Uncapped agreements provide certainty to authors that their articles will be published Open Access, streamlines processes for institutions, and reflects a mature relationship between libraries and publisher. CAUL is committed to the ongoing transition of scholarly communication, and agreements like this play a pivotal role in delivering on the promise of Open Access.
Open Access is crucial to make research available to everyone, anytime. Knowing that the Technische Universität Dresden, through its state library (SLUB), was part of the Read & Publish Open Access initiative made our choice of journal a lot easier, especially when this agreement comprises high-quality journals such as Disease Models & Mechanisms. Not having to use valuable funding for an APC was a welcome change and will encourage me to publish again in journals from The Company of Biologists. I hope this paves the way for other publishers to join similar agreements so that science can become more inclusive and equitable!
Thanks to the Read & Publish Open Access agreement between Okayama University and The Company of Biologists, we published our paper in a prestigious journal like Development. As a newly-fledged postdoc, I cannot afford to pay the APC for Open Access. This agreement enables young researchers like me to share our work with the broader scientific community. We sincerely appreciate this initiative, which is a step in the right direction for advancing science.
For a small lab on a tight budget, not having to mull over paying for Open Access is a big deal. I am grateful to Albert Einstein College of Medicine for partnering up with The Company of Biologists to make this possible. Our biggest delight, however, has been the tree we have to our name in The Forest of Biologists – as I am writing this, we are working hard for the next one.
We are delighted with the renewal of the Read & Publish agreement between The Company of Biologists and the Bibsam Consortium. The agreement means that researchers at participating institutions can continue to publish an unlimited number of Open Access articles in all five of the Company’s journals, alongside read access. The agreement also means that we continue to advance Open Science with a small, not-for-profit publisher that additionally celebrates the work of scientists, including those from Bibsam member institutions, with its biodiversity initiative, The Forest of Biologists.
We are pleased to renew our agreement with The Company of Biologists. As well as providing access to the latest biological literature for UK universities and supporting cutting-edge research, it will also continue to facilitate the transition to Open Access for UK research and the publisher.
I was delighted to learn that our paper in Journal of Experimental Biology could be published Open Access without a fee thanks to the Read & Publish Agreement with the University of Liverpool. This is incredibly important to graduate students or those on teaching contracts like me, as it gives us the opportunity to publish in leading journals without financial barriers. Open Access is incredibly important for making research available to everyone and should be something that every organisation should strive to be part of.
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