I didn’t realize this fee-free Open Access agreement ever existed until I discovered the partnership between The Company of Biologists and the University of California. I’m extremely grateful. The entire editing process was smooth and efficient, allowing our article to reach readers worldwide very quickly. Overall, I had a wonderful publishing experience with Journal of Experimental Biology.
I am grateful to The Company of Biologists and University of Pittsburgh for the Read & Publish Open Access agreement. Open Access as provided by Journal of Cell Science delivers a critical relief to the current difficult situation in research funding. This is especially vital for new independent investigators having limited funds to support their research and publications.
I am very happy with the agreement between The Company of Biologists and the University of Toronto. With the rising costs of publication, I was delighted to know that we could publish our paper for free in Development, as it is very difficult to afford publishing fees, especially when operating grants are more difficult to get. This has allowed me to invest the money saved in my lab so we can hopefully publish in Development again.
When selecting a journal, I saw that the University of Guelph is in a Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists. This made submitting to Biology Open an easy decision as I’d like to support Open Access and this agreement made it affordable.
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.
Our recent access to a fee-free Open Access publication of our manuscript under the Read & Publish agreement between The Company of Biologists and our institution is a great publishing option for us. In recent years it has become increasingly challenging to meet escalating publication costs from our operating budget. This Read & Publish agreement now provides us with an excellent, high-quality portal for our publications without affecting our operating budget.
Thanks to the fee-free Open Access Read & Publish agreement between The Company of Biologists and McGill University, I have been able to share our research with the global scientific community, quickly and effectively. As an early career scientist, I am very happy to reach this goal and to have the opportunity to publish our article in Journal of Experimental Biology, one of the most renowned journals in the world.
I am very grateful to The Company of Biologists and Johns Hopkins University for the Read & Publish Open Access agreement. Open access as practiced by not-for-profit journals such as Development provides a critical counterweight to current disturbing trends in scientific publishing. The Company of Biologists’ Read & Publish initiative is a model for how scientific publishing can move forward while preserving critical assessment of manuscripts and providing a respected platform for research presentation.
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.
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