The Company of Biologists free open access publishing

Free open access publishing in The Company of Biologists' three hybrid journals

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The Company of Biologists free open access publishing

ABOUT THE AGREEMENT

TYPE:
Hybrid, Fully open access
SUBJECTS:
Life Sciences
PUBLISHER/VENDOR:
AGREEMENT TERM:
31 Dec 2026

EIFL has negotiated a free read & publish agreement with The Company of Biologists on behalf of authors from eligible EIFL countries. This means that corresponding authors from these countries will not have to pay any Article Processing Charges (APCs) for open access publishing when an article is accepted for publication by any one of the journals published by The Company of Biologists: Development, Journal of Cell Science, Journal of Experimental Biology, Disease Models & Mechanisms, and Biology Open.

The agreement is valid for three hybrid journals published by The Company of Biologists: Development, Journal of Cell Science, and Journal of Experimental Biology and two fully open access journals Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open 

Below are the agreed terms: 

No Article Processing Charges fees for corresponding authors from: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Fiji, Georgia, Ghana, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Malawi, Maldives, Moldova, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, North Macedonia, Palestine, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Article types:

  • Article types covered: research articles, this means original research papers relating to original research.
  • Article types NOT covered: review papers, commentaries, correspondence, corrections, additions, posters or any other content or material.

Corresponding authors from Eligible Countries will be automatically recognized when submitting their article to an eligible journal from The Company of Biologists and will be offered the applicable APC waiver.

You can find the title list with all detailed information about included journals here.

Developmental biology
Cell biology
Zoology 
Disease and organisms
Biological and biomedical sciences

Click on your country below to get the list of all the journals that EIFL has negotiated open access publishing terms for. You can browse the list by subject, impact factor, and publisher.

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Botswana, China, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Georgia, Ghana, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Malawi, Maldives, Moldova, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, North Macedonia, Palestine, Senegal, Serbia, Slovenia, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe