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Annette Borchers, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany

Thanks to our Read & Publish agreement, we were able to make our research freely available to the global scientific community without any article processing charges. It’s a great way to make research more accessible to everyone!

Stefania Casagrande, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Germany

Publishing Open Access without fees under the Read & Publish agreement was a great opportunity. It made the process smooth and accessible, allowing our research to reach a broader audience without financial barriers. I really appreciate the commitment to equitable science communication.

Victor M. Moya-Orozco, University of Seville, Spain

One of the best Read & Publish agreements maintained by the library at the University of Seville is with The Company of Biologists.

Meghan Riddell, University of Alberta, Canada

Publication with the Read & Publish agreement helped to free up budget for the project allowing us to focus on experiments instead of balancing budgets.

Leonard Dobens, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA

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.

Carole LaBonne, Northwestern University, USA

Like many others I love the idea of publishing Open Access but find it prohibitively expensive in most cases. The Read & Publish agreement with my university made publishing Open Access in Development free and seamless. I really appreciate the work that The Company of Biologists does in setting up these agreements.  Also, glad to have another tree planted in The Forest of Biologists!

Lisa Taneyhill, University of Maryland, USA

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!

James J. P. Alix, University of Sheffield, UK

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.

Gal Ribak, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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.

Maarten Zwart, University of St Andrews, UK

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.

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