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About us
- - - The Company of Biologists is a not-for-profit publishing organisation dedicated to supporting and inspiring the biological community.
Journals
- - - At the heart of what we do are our five specialist journals:
Grants
- - - We support the biological community by funding various grants and Travelling Fellowships.
Meetings
- - - Through our workshops and meetings, we help establish and grow important networking opportunities.
Community
- - - We host community sites, helping people connect and share resources, news and opportunities. We have a keen interest in supporting early-career researchers.
Sustainability
- - - We are committed to ensuring our environmental impact is kept to a minimum and we are working hard to make sustainability a consideration in everything we do. We have also launched two major initiatives to promote sustainability and biodiversity.
Library hub
- - - The biological research community has access to our specialist journals through library subscriptions worldwide. Our new Read & Publish Open Access agreements offer researchers enhanced opportunities to read and publish articles.
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Welcome to our library hub

The Company of Biologists is a not-for-profit journal publisher with a mission to advance excellence in the biological and biomedical sciences.

We partner with libraries and library consortia worldwide to maximise the dissemination of high-quality research.

We publish five specialist peer-reviewed journals:

three transformative journals: Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology
two Open Access journals: Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open.

Read & Publish Open Access agreements

We were one of the first not-for-profit publishers to launch a cost-neutral Read & Publish initiative. Since launch in November 2019, we have signed Read & Publish and other transformative Open Access agreements with many library consortia and over 1,000 institutions in 57 countries are now participating.

Our standard Read & Publish agreements offer:

unlimited access to all our transformative journals and their archives dating back to 1853
uncapped, immediate and fee-free Open Access publication of research articles for corresponding authors in our transformative journals plus our Open Access journals

In addition, we are piloting variations of our standard Read & Publish model with the Max Planck Digital Library and the University of California.

Subscriptions

Online-only subscriptions to Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology are available to institutions.

Find out more about institutional subscriptions
See our subscriptions FAQ for answers to questions about institutional subscriptions including pricing, subscriber services, access and licensing

Journal archive

The Company of Biologists has a rich publication history, with three of our journals going back more than 100 years. Our journals cover different areas of biology and include work from outstanding researchers. Providing access to our digital archive sets your researchers up for optimal content discovery.