Rights and permissions

At Development, we realise that different authors may have different needs when it comes to article access policies.

If your funder or institute mandate any aspect of Open Access, we recommend that you select the journal’s Gold Open Access option during submission. Your article will be published under a CC-BY licence and deposited in PubMed Central (PMC) for immediate release. For information about the benefits of Open Access publishing or to see the current Article Processing Charges (APCs), visit our Open Access page.

It is free to publish in Development if Open Access is not required.

Read & Publish Open Access agreements

The Company of Biologists is embracing the move towards Open Access through Read & Publish and other transformative Open Access agreements with institutional libraries and library consortia. These agreements allow corresponding authors at participating institutions to publish an unlimited number of Open Access Research Articles in either the hybrid or all of the Company's journals, as well as granting unlimited “read” access to the Company's journals. Corresponding authors can find out more on the Read & Publish for researchers page.  

Libraries and library consortia can find out more in our library hub or contact [email protected].

If you do not have any specific Open Access needs, your article will be published automatically under the Green Open Access model. For the first six months your article will only be accessible by subscribers of the journal. After six months, the article will be made freely available for everyone. Publishing under the Green Open Access model in Development is completely free.

If you do not want your article to be Gold Open Access, but must comply with PMC deposition mandates, it is essential that you fully and correctly indicate all funder/institute PMC mandates for all authors as part of the submission process. Your research paper will then be deposited in PMC for release after 6 or 12 months as mandated. This is a free service offered to authors of research papers who require deposition in US/NLM PMC. If you fail to select the correct options during submission and PMC deposition is requested at a later stage, we reserve the right to charge $50 for the PMC deposition service.

We are also a member of CHORUS and will ensure that your article complies with US public access mandates.

For authors who may need to follow the Rights Retention Strategy to comply with funder/institute mandates, we would allow this route to self-archiving of the Author Accepted Manuscript (in an institutional or subject repository immediately under a CC BY license) in cases where none of our standard routes (outlined above) comply with the relevant mandate.

These options should allow you to comply with any funder/institute mandates.

Authors should be aware that some article types are already free to read on our site: Editorial, Publisher’s Note, Correction, Retraction, Obituary, Research Highlights and occasional other selected articles.

Further details on our Gold Open Access and Green Open Access options are listed in the table below.

We are partners in a number of international schemes (such as Hinari) to provide access immediately and free of charge to the world’s poorest countries.

Data mining

Article full text, metadata and citations may be crawled without special permission or registration, on the condition that it is non-commercial. We ask that, where you reuse content, you attribute the original source, e.g. by citing doi and linking to the published article on the journal website, and that you respect the copyright of the original articles.

Please bear in mind that, should usage exceed 200 requests in 3 minutes from a single IP, users will need to complete a Captcha. If you have any other technical queries, please email [email protected].

For commercial TDM requests, our content is available through RightFind XML for Mining, from Copyright Clearance Centre.

Permission to use material from other publications in the company journals

It is the responsibility of the author to obtain permission to use material (e.g. figures) from another publication in any article submitted to our journals and to ensure that any such use is credited to the source. Written permission from the author and/or publisher of the original material, as appropriate, should be provided at the time of submission, otherwise publication may be delayed. If you have modified a figure from a previously published figure, please check with the copyright owners to see whether permission is required and include a complete citation/reference for the original article.

The Company of Biologists' websites

The contents of this and other websites owned by The Company of Biologists Limited are protected by copyright. Users may seek permission to reproduce material by accessing the Copyright Clearance Centre. Nothing set out here affects any rights that you may have under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 in the UK or any equivalent fair dealing or fair use provisions in other jurisdictions.

Although, through extensive proof-reading, The Company of Biologists Limited has taken care to ensure that the information, data and other contents of our web sites are error free and up to date as at the time of writing, we give no warranties (express or implied) regarding the accuracy, currency or applicability of any of the contents.

The Company of Biologists Limited accepts no responsibility for and excludes all liability in connection with the use of this site, including but not limited to any liability for errors, inaccuracies, omissions or misleading or defamatory statements. In each case, such exclusion shall apply under any theory of liability and we specifically exclude liability for indirect, special, consequential and incidental damages whether or not The Company of Biologists Limited have been advised of the possibility of damages.

Disclaimer: Responsibility for (1) the accuracy of statements of fact; (2) the authenticity of scientific findings or observations; (3) expressions of scientific or other opinion; (4) any other material published in the journal rests solely with the author(s) of the article in which such statements, etc., appear. No responsibility for such matters is assumed by the Journal, its owners, publishers, referees or staff.

For all other matters relating to the reproduction of material, please email [email protected].

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