I was delighted to learn that my university had a Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists. The lead author on this publication in Development is my graduate student, Caroline Halmi, and I was thrilled that we could immediately share the fruits of her tireless experimentation and efforts with the rest of the scientific community. This agreement ensured that lab funds could be allocated to the science, and not to publication costs. I look forward to publishing our next paper in another high-impact journal from The Company of Biologists, taking advantage of the ability to seamlessly communicate our science with the world. And thank you also for this wonderful initiative of planting a tree – I love this concept!
Publishing Open Access with DMM was easy to do and really important for the way that we as scientists and our funder, the MNDA, want to communicate our work.
We are delighted that our paper will be Open Access to anyone in the world thanks to the Read & Publish agreement between JEB and Tel Aviv University.
Our Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists was key to publishing our paper by stellar undergraduate Bella Xu Ying. We’re very happy to have our story out in JEB, all the more for having a tree planted for us.
I already knew about the outstanding reputation of Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM) and The Company of Biologists. However, when I learned that the University of Florida has a Read & Publish agreement that included free Open Access publication in DMM, I was delighted. The submission, review, and publication stages of our article exceeded my expectations. Perhaps, the biggest surprise was that they planted a tree in The Forest of Biologists in recognition of our article. This initiative is lovely. I encourage any university to support their investigators by providing them the opportunity to publish free, Open Access, and high quality articles through similar agreements.
One of the best Read & Publish agreements maintained by the library at the University of Seville is with The Company of Biologists.
Publication with the Read & Publish agreement helped to free up budget for the project allowing us to focus on experiments instead of balancing budgets.
The opportunity to publish Open Access fee-free was completely unexpected. I was not aware that the University had a Read & Publish agreement, and I was ready to pay the fee out of my own lab funds. Being able to publish this work, that represents years of effort and in such a nice high-profile journal, is going to help us get funded again, just at the moment when our funds are running low. I couldn’t be more grateful that this came together at this time for me. This was a really nice cherry on top of our work. I’ve told other researchers at my institution about it, and I’m looking to publish another paper in one of the journals from The Company of Biologists as a result.
I and my lab have greatly benefited from the Read & Publish agreement that The Company of Biologists has with our University in Linköping. It alleviates the increased yet inevitable costs for Open Access publishing, which for me is a fundamental, non-negotiable factor. The Company of Biologists is a force of good in this world, promoting transparent knowledge, providing fair and professional peer reviewing, and now impacting ecosystems by literally planting trees—what an incredible initiative. I wonder why scientists would wish to publish in other journals! Thank you!
I’m a longtime fan of The Company of Biologists’ journals, both in terms of the content curation, community interaction, and rigor in the review and editing process. So I was very pleased to find that my institution is participating in the Read & Publish agreement. The arrangement works well for researchers who have a straightforward and seamless path to Open Access publishing in great journals, and for the research community at large by supporting Open Access. I hope to participate again soon.
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