What a wonderful surprise it was to find out about the Read & Publish Open Access agreement between The Company of Biologists and McGill University which facilitates immediate access to our research to all readers without charge! This is fabulous: for science, for our trainees whose careers benefit from having their research seen quickly and widely, and for our hard-earned publicly funded research grants that can advance science further as a result. I love this initiative and I’ll be spreading the word at McGill and encouraging my trainees and colleagues to submit more papers to The Company of Biologists’ journals.

