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 subscription 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 nine library consortia and over 500 institutions in 39 countries are now participating.
Our standard Read & Publish agreements offer:
- unlimited access to all our hybrid subscription journals and their archives dating back to 1853
- uncapped, immediate and fee-free Open Access publication of research articles for corresponding authors in our subscription journals OR, from 2022, our subscription 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 and combined print/online 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
