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.
Our paper was published Open Access in Biology Open, at no cost to our research budget, through a Read & Publish agreement with The University of Iowa. As an earlier-career researcher this support was invaluable. It allowed us to share our findings widely and preserve funding for our next research venture. We were also honored to have our paper recognized in The Forest of Biologist and to be interviewed about our work. With such thoughtful initiatives, we’re excited to publish with this journal again.
We are delighted that our work has been published in Journal of Cell Science as Open Access through Newcastle University’s Read & Publish agreement. This fee-free publication route has made our findings immediately accessible to the global community, removing financial barriers to access. By adopting this publishing model, our research can reach the broadest possible audience, including basic scientists, students, educators, and clinicians, and we are grateful for the opportunity to share our work so widely.
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.
We are delighted that our article has been published in Disease Models & Mechanisms fee-free and Open Access under the Read & Publish agreement with The University of Edinburgh. Our science is now available for everyone to read, regardless of financial status. We are thrilled that our organisation and The Company of Biologists support the work of scientists, not for profit, but for curiosity-driven science. We are also delighted that a common hawthorn tree has been planted in The Forest of Biologists in recognition of our article.
As an undergraduate first author, being able to secure funding for publication was definitely something I was worried about. However, the fee-free Open Access publishing agreement between the University of Toronto and Biology Open has not only made the publication process stress-free but has also allowed us to share our work with a much broader audience. I am so grateful and excited for everyone to see our work!
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