Quite apart from the fact that Journal of Experimental Biology is my favourite journal, owing to both focus and breadth of my research interests, I was aware that my home university had a Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists and that was actually a major reason for choosing JEB for our publication. I have been retired for 2 years now and thus would not have had any funds available to cover Open Access charges. It came as a pleasant surprise how little effort it was to obtain the APC waiver and the copy editing and the other publication services were also excellent.
