The Penn Libraries has a three-year (2024-2026) agreement with the Company of Biologists (CoB) for Penn authors to publish original research articles open access with no article processing fees (APCs). Charges other than the APC may still apply, and are not covered by this agreement. Please refer to individual journal submission guidelines.
- This agreement covers open access publication in all CoB hybrid and gold journals. Please see our Author Services Guide for more information on the types of open access.
- Articles must have a Penn-affiliated responsible corresponding author to be able to publish them in CoB journals without paying an article processing fee (APC).
- During the submission process, the authors must correctly identify they are affiliated with Penn to ensure they are matched to our agreement.
- CHOP researchers cross-affiliated with Penn are eligible under our agreements but MUST select UPenn (and not CHOP) as their affiliation when submitting articles.
- Eligible article types are those related to original research under this agreement.
- Article types not considered for OA publishing include but are not limited to: review papers, commentaries, correspondence, corrections, additions, posters.
- Accepted articles are published under an Open Access CC-BY 4.0 license.
- For more details on publishing open access and the author workflow please see CoB's Publishing Open Access page.
