It was amazing, and a true honor, to be the first paper from Thomas Jefferson University published under our Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists. Not only did it allow us to get our science out to the community quickly via Open Access, it provided a rigorous and widely-read venue to showcase the latest Mosca Lab results, and fulfilled a career-long dream of mine to publish in such a brilliant journal as Development. The fee-free nature also allows us to focus our funding on advancing science even further. I look forward to more journals opting for similar policies so we can focus on discovery and broad communication with other scholars!
I am very grateful to The Company of Biologists for providing a journal like Development, with its longstanding tradition of high standards of peer reviewing and proofing. Its APC free agreement with the University of Basel is essential for transparency and enables researchers from small universities to access publications without paywall. For us it means we can publish in the journal of our choice without having to worry whether we can afford it.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Towson University has the Read & Publish agreement with The Company of Biologists. I think it is a great service to allow faculty from Towson University to publish fee-free Open Access papers and reach a wider audience. I will definitely take this into consideration when submitting future manuscripts.
The editorial team of Biology Open was very helpful and timely with the editing and proofreading. Furthermore, we thank the journal for completely waiving the article fee under the Read & Publish agreement with the Indian Institute of Science. Such waivers are particularly helpful to early-career researchers in publishing articles from developing countries as was our case.
The scientific publishing landscape is a difficult landmine to navigate, but thankfully there are some great initiatives such as the Read & Publish Open Access initiative from The Company of Biologist (a not-for-profit publisher) which gives us some hope for the future of scientific publishing! Thanks to this agreement, researchers and people around the world who are curious about penguins can have a look at our study in Journal of Experimental Biology without having to pay for it, which would have otherwise been impossible on our tight research budget.
Thanks to the Read & Publish agreement between the Humboldt University and The Company of Biologists, we are able to publish our research as Open Access in
Journal of Cell Science without any additional cost.
We are always committed to making our research openly accessible to benefit the wider community. Public accessibility is crucial for science communication and promoting scientific knowledge, and we therefore strongly support this Open Access initiative.
We are grateful to Johns Hopkins University for providing the option to publish our research Open Access and fee-free in Journal of Experimental Biology with the Read & Publish agreement. The ease of access to publish research, journal quality, and outstanding editing and proofing processes are major draws when considering The Company of Biologists journals.
We were thrilled to submit our article to Development, a journal we deeply admire for its insightful articles. To our delight, we discovered the Read & Publish agreement with the University of North Carolina, sparing us from using our grant money to cover the publishing fee. The process was remarkably swift and straightforward, exceeding our expectations. Our overall publishing experience was outstanding, solidifying our resolve to consider a journal from The Company of Biologists for our next publication. We are sincerely grateful for the smooth and efficient process and the opportunity to be part of such a reputable publication.
We love the Read & Publish approach that The Company of Biologists takes. Because of it, we always put their journals at the top of our list for those we’re considering for publication. I’d much rather use our precious research dollars to support students and staff than paying the exorbitant open access fees at so many journals.
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.
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