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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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Subscriptions

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

We have a 5-tier pricing model for institutional subscriptions.

2026 pricing for tiers 1-4 is available.
Pricing for Tier 5 institutions and library consortia is negotiated on a case-by-case basis.

Subscriptions are available on a calendar year basis (January – December).

You can view the licence agreement (covering both single- and multi-site institutions) here.

We are committed to ensuring that our customers do not pay twice for access to Open Access content via article processing charges (APCs) and subscription fees.

COUNTER5 usage reports

Our journals are fully cross-searchable and librarians can manage all their subscriptions, and download usage statistics, from a central admin dashboard.

The full range of COUNTER5 usage reports from April 2021 can be downloaded by library administrators who are logged into the Silverchair admin dashboard.

A “how-to” guide for library administrators is available, and please contact us if you have any questions or need any help.