Name | The Company of Biologists |
Membership Category | Professional Publisher (Large) |
Website | www.biologists.com |
Owner | The Company of Biologists is a not-for-profit publisher and UK charity. The Company directors, all biologists, are responsible for the running of the Company (http://www.biologists.com/about-us/). |
Main Address | The Company of Biologists, Bidder Building, Station Road, Histon, Cambridge, CB24 9LF, UK |
Other Office Locations | |
Copyright and Licensing Link | https://journals.biologists.com/journals/pages/licences |
Copyright and Licensing Policy | Fully Open Access journals Biology Open (BiO) and Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM): CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence. Hybrid (subscription and optional Open Access) journals Development (Dev), Journal of Cell Science (JCS), Journal of Experimental Biology (JEB): Authors retain copyright under exclusive licence; OA articles only: CC-BY |
Complaint Contact Link | www.biologists.com/publishing-policies |
Complaint Policy | Complaints are handled by the individual journal editorial offices |
Publication Charge Link | https://journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/open-access https://journals.biologists.com/dmm/pages/open-accesshttps://journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/open-access https://journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/open-access https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/open-access |
Publication Charge Policy | The costs of publication in Open Access journals BiO and DMM are covered by charging a fee to the authors or the research supporters for each accepted article. This subsidised fee is $2500 for BiO and $4250 for DMM (plus VAT if applicable). Complete or partial waivers are considered on a case-by-case basis, providing support for authors from developing countries or in genuine financial hardship. Hybrid model journals (Dev, JCS and JEB) offer authors the option of making the full text version of their article immediately accessible upon publication, through payment of a subsidised Open Access fee ($5400 for Dev, JCS and JEB; plus VAT if applicable). There is no waiver option. |
OASPA Compliant OA Journals | 2 (Disease Models & Mechanisms and Biology Open) |
OA Articles (approx. number in 12 months) | DMM 124; BiO 127; hybrid journals 450 (2024) |
OASPA Compliant OA Books | |
Peer Review Process Link | https://journals.biologists.com/dmm/pages/reviewer-guide https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/reviewer-guide https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/reviewer-guide https://journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/reviewer-guide https://journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/reviewer-guide |
Peer Review Policy | All journals published by the Company operate single-anonymised peer review.
Development, JCS, JEB and DMM have adopted a system of cross-referee commenting,
whereby referees have a 48 hour window to allow them to comment on each others’
reports before the editor makes a decision.
Development, JCS and Bio have an open system of peer review, whereby reviewer reports,
editor decision letters and author response to reviewers can be published alongside each
Research article (authors can elect to opt out). BiO has a published rubric.
(https://journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/rubric) outlining how articles will be evaluated. All
journals integrated with the ORCID and Clarivate (previously Publons) Reviewer Recognition
Services. |
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