Being able to publish the group’s article immediately under a Read & Publish agreement with the University of Würzburg massively streamlined the final stages of the publication process. Instead of protracted paperwork, the post-acceptance process was completed extremely quickly and the fact that the article was immediately Open Access was the icing on the cake.
It’s fantastic to see a top-tier publishing house such as The Company of Biologists taking such proactive steps to ensure that research reaches the public domain as fast as possible and that researchers can spend their time (and money!) focusing on science.