The Company of Biologists is a not-for-profit publishing organisation dedicated to supporting and inspiring the biological community.
Otago has 2022-2024 uncapped access to publish in these 3 journal titles, with no article processing charge:
Development |
Journal of Cell Science |
Journal of Experimental Biology |
and you will continue to have access to publish in these 2 Open Access titles, for all corresponding authors under CC BY licence terms, but may incur an article processing charge:
Disease Models & Mechanisms
Biology Open
Open access publishing covered under this Read & Publish agreement includes the following article types:
Original research paper article
Authors may publish excluded article types as “closed access” or pay an article processing charge (if applicable) to make the article open access.
Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement (2022) are eligible to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
There is no limit on the number of articles by eligible authors from participating institutions that can be published under the terms of this agreement.
There are no other transactional charges for authors.
You can view the Company of Biologists step-by-step guide for Read & Publish authors here.
OR read on for more details:
Responsible corresponding authors* from institutions listed under 'Participating institutions' above may publish immediately to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted with no transactional APCs. (Page and colour charges may apply.)
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the authors' choice of either
CC-BY
CC-BY-SA
CC-BY-ND
CC-BY-NC
CC-BY-NC-SA
CC-BY-NC-ND
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.
View the publisher’s step-by-step guide for authors.
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their
institutional email address
institutional affiliation
IP address range.
Authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication in order for the publication to be approved to be published open access with no transactional APCs
Authors may deposit articles in institutional repositories.
Preprints may be deposited. The Company of Biologists recognises the growing use of preprint servers in the biological sciences, and appreciates the value in rapid dissemination of research results. Deposition of primary research manuscripts on community preprint servers such as bioRxiv is not considered prior publication and will not compromise potential publication. Authors are asked to provide details of the preprint deposition in the cover letter accompanying manuscript submission. Versions of a manuscript that have been revised in response to peer review comments should not be deposited. Authors who have posted their paper to a preprint server are welcome to engage in community discussion about their paper.
Author accepted manuscripts may be made available via institutional repositories after a zero months embargo period.
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Authors may deposit articles in institutional repositories.
Preprints may be deposited. The Company of Biologists recognises the growing use of preprint servers in the biological sciences, and appreciates the value in rapid dissemination of research results. Deposition of primary research manuscripts on community preprint servers such as bioRxiv is not considered prior publication and will not compromise potential publication. Authors are asked to provide details of the preprint deposition in the cover letter accompanying manuscript submission. Versions of a manuscript that have been revised in response to peer review comments should not be deposited. Authors who have posted their paper to a preprint server are welcome to engage in community discussion about their paper.
Author accepted manuscripts may be made available via institutional repositories after a zero months embargo period.