Vanderbilt’s Agreements Supporting Open Access Publishing

The Company of Biologists agreement: 

• Includes access to all issues of CoB journals.
• Covers article processing charges (APCs) for open access publishing in all journals from The Company of Biologists.
• Ensures that open access articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0.
• Includes OA article deposit into PubMed Central by the CoB on the author’s behalf.

How does it work?

• Only corresponding authors are eligible.
• Publishers use a variety of methods and tools to confirm eligibility. Whenever possible, we have identified eligible affiliated groups that might appear in the publisher's list (e.g. Peabody or Vanderbilt University Medical Center); however, to ensure that an author is recognized, it is best to select Vanderbilt University as the affiliation and use one's @vanderbilt.edu email address or @vumc.org email address at the point of submission/acceptance. It is also recommended to include one's ORCID iD.
• If authors do not provide details to identify their eligibility at submission, they are not guaranteed to be identified as eligible to publish open access under this agreement.
• Authors can learn more here.