Open Access agreement between The Company of Biologists and University of California continues for an additional three years

The Company of Biologists is delighted to announce a further three-year Open Access agreement with the University of California (UC).

This agreement, which follows on from the initial 3-year variation agreement, runs from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2026 and continues to cover Open Access publishing in The Company of Biologists’ journals: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open.

The agreement enables corresponding authors at all ten UC campuses to publish an uncapped number of research articles immediately Open Access. The agreement also provides researchers on all UC campuses with unlimited access to Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology and their archives dating back to 1853.

Under the agreement, the UC libraries will automatically pay the first $1,000 of a discounted Open Access fee, or Article Processing Charge (APC), for all UC authors who choose to publish in one of The Company of Biologists’ journals. Authors are asked to pay the remainder if they have research funds available to do so. Authors who do not have research funds available can request full funding of the APC from the libraries. This ensures that lack of research funds does not present a barrier for UC authors who wish to publish Open Access in The Company of Biologists’ journals.

Read the full announcement here.