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2023-02-01
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Expansion of open access publication offerings for The Company of Biologists

From 2023, members of the University of Freiburg will be able to publish free of charge in the journals of The Company of Biologists.

In accordance with the Open Access Resolution of the University of Freiburg, the University Library promotes Open Access publications in a variety of ways and enables thereby a free and unimpeded access to academic research. By participating in various framework agreements, members of the university who act as corresponding authors have the opportunity to publish articles free of charge or at a discount.

In the years 2023-2025, the University of Freiburg is now participating in another framework agreement covering the publication services of The Company of Biologists. An annual flat fee (Read & Publish Fee), which is based on the subscription fees paid to date and the historical publication volume, not only guarantees reading access to the publisher's complete journal portfolio, but also covers publication rights for research articles in all five journals: the hybrid journals Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology, as well as the pure Open Access journals Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open. No further charges are made and there is no article limit. Publication is directly in Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. In addition, the publication is automatically archived in PubMed Central. Publisher information on the workflow can be found here.