I have been a reader and fan of Journal of Cell Science since my graduate studies and I value the high quality offered by the journal at all levels, from rigorous peer review to Open Access publication. I am very pleased that The Company of Biologists and the University of Gothenburg have a Read & Publish agreement as this greatly facilitates the publication process and allows us to share our findings with a wide audience without affecting our research budget.
Discovering that Journal of Cell Science is included in The Company of Biologists’ Read and Publish agreement with the University of Groningen was one of the many pleasures of publishing with them. I am continually impressed by the Company’s commitment to promoting Open Access publishing.
Open Access is the right thing for science, and it’s so much easier to do the right thing when it’s free! I’m grateful to the Company of Biologists and Columbia University for absorbing the cost of open access publishing through Read & Publish agreement, effectively expanding the reach and accessibility of this exciting work by postdoc Lisa Calvary and PhD student Panos Oikonomou from the lab.
Publishing our work in Development under their Open Access Read & Publish agreement with UMass Chan Medical School was easy and efficient. With changing policies surrounding open access publication and reporting requirements, The Company of Biologists and the University have made compliance simple. I appreciate the professionalism and excellent quality of Development’s editorial and production staff, and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to publish our research there.
Maximizing the utility of our work is important to us, and it strongly influences where we publish. Journals like Development, and The Company of Biologists’ journals more broadly, offer a combination we value. They are edited by active scientists, rigorously reviewed by knowledgeable peers, and available to us as fee-free open access under the University of California. That means we can publish high-quality, openly accessible science without diverting limited grant funds into publication fees, and instead put those resources back into doing the research we think matters most.
The fee-free Open Access option is a huge bonus of publishing with Journal of Cell Science, enabling the wider reach of our research.
We are grateful to have published our article on the conserved role for the nucleolar protein NOC1 in rRNA processing and tumorigenesis, under the fee-free Open Access option enabled by the Read & Publish agreement between The Company of Biologists and the University of Trento. This agreement has facilitated unrestricted access to our work, supporting the broad dissemination of our findings within the scientific community.
It is a great perk to be able to publish a fully open access manuscript in a great journal like Development, without any associated fees due to my university’s Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists.
As made clear in JULAC’s Position Statement on Open Scholarship, JULAC is committed to enabling Open Access (OA) to research publications. This agreement with The Company of Biologists is an example of the tangible support that libraries can provide to their institution’s researchers in making their work OA.
We are deeply grateful to The Company of Biologists for publishing our article, led by Sarah Nahlé, on cellular diversity in myogenesis in Development, fee-free and Open Access. This generous support underlines a shared commitment to making science accessible to all, regardless of financial barriers.
We were particularly impressed by the exceptional quality of the peer review process and the editorial team’s thoughtful guidance. Their dedication to scientific excellence and integrity made this experience truly rewarding.
It is inspiring to see an organization that champions curiosity-driven research and supports scientists not for profit, but for the advancement of knowledge. We are also honoured that a tree has been planted in The Forest of Biologists in recognition of our article, a beautiful symbol of growth and sustainability in science.
Thank you for helping our work reach a broader audience and for fostering a culture of open, collaborative research.
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