Linking

Accurate linking between sites provides readers with access to a definitive collection of journal articles for which responsibility is clearly held by the journal and its publisher.

The Company of Biologists is a member of CrossRef which is an infrastructure for linking citations across publishers by implementation of the Digital Object Identifier (or DOI) system. A DOI link is a persistent link, unlike a URL, so CrossRef links provide reliable and persistent links in citations and database records.

Interlibrary loan

Institutional subscribers may supply interlibrary loan requests from other institutions via fax or paper document delivery under CONTU (National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyright Works) guidelines. Redistribution of journal content to non-authorized users in electronic or digital form is not allowed unless prior publisher approval has been obtained.

 

Archiving

Perpetual Access:

The Company of Biologists is a HighWire Press affiliated publisher and fully supports the LOCKSS Programme, a multi-institutional, multi-publisher initiative to create a permanent web publishing and access system.

LOCKSS replicates the traditional model of libraries keeping physical copies of books, journals, etc. in their collections, making it possible for libraries to keep copies of digital materials long-term. When libraries have custody of the content, they need not pay continued access fees for post cancellation access.

LOCKSS provides libraries with the open source software and support to build their own collections and acquire a copy of the assets they pay for. LOCKSS preserves all formats and genres of web-published content. The intellectual content which includes the historical context (look and feel) is preserved. LOCKSS is OAIS compliant; the software migrates content forward in time; and the bits and bytes are continually audited and repaired.

Content preserved by libraries through LOCKSS becomes a part of their collection and they have perpetual access to 100% of titles preserved in their LOCKSS Box.

Please see www.lockss.org for more information and to install a LOCKSS box.

Dark Archive:

The Company has also partnered with CLOCKSS www.clockss.org to preserve all their electronic journals at their geographically distributed network of redundant archive nodes located at 12 major research libraries around the world. This gives libraries the assurance that they will have a secure preservation solution and permanent access to our journals should a "trigger event" ever occur.

Developing countries

Development, Disease Models & Mechanisms, Journal of Cell Science and The Journal of Experimental Biology all offer FREE Online Access to developing economies, based on either programs such as HINARI, OARE, or on a HighWire based programme offering access to countries appearing in the World Bank's list of "low income economies" plus Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Djibouti, Georgia, Indonesia, Turkmenistan and Ukraine.

Users do not need to sign up for this service as HighWire's software automatically detects the country they are connecting from and grants access accordingly.

HINARI

Over 6400 journals are now available free of charge to developing countries through the HINARI programme, organised by the World Health Orginisation and major publishers worldwide. This is one of the largest collections of biomedical and health literature, made available to health institutions in 108 countries, areas and territories and so contributing to improved world health.

OARE

Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) enables developing countries to have access to one of the world's greatest collections of research in the Environmental Sciences. OARE is an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University and leading scientific publishers.

Over 2990 peer reviewed titles are now available in more than 100 low income countries.

AGORA

AGORA was set up by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers. It provides 1900 journals to institutes in 107 countries in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and social sciences.

 

Copyright policy

By purchasing a subscription, licence or by using the Materials (as herein defined) and/or all or any websites operated by or on behalf of The Company of Biologists Limited (the "Sites") or any services accessible from the Sites, you are agreeing to the terms of use set out below.

The materials, articles, information, data and all similar materials ("Materials") published by the Company of Biologists Limited (the "Company") and the contents of the Sites are protected by copyright. Individual articles are published under an Exclusive Licence obtained by the Company from the authors of such articles, who retain copyright. Such authors are free to reproduce material from their articles in any printed book (including thesis) of which they are authors. If you are an author, you should refer to the Information for Authors sections of the Sites for further information.

Unless otherwise permitted by the terms of use set out herein, all parties must obtain prior written permission from the Company before reproducing (in any form), compiling, storing, distributing, transmitting, displaying, broadcasting or using automated data mining techniques, downloading programs or devices in relation to the Materials (or any part thereof); and such permission may be sought by contacting permissions{at}biologists.com.

Nothing set out here affects any rights or obligations 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.

Article reproduction

Academic or educational use
The Company allows librarians* to make multiple copies of articles which are published by the Company FREE OF CHARGE, provided that the following conditions are met:

• Copying is done by a member of staff of the university, school or other comparable institution
  
  
• Copying is for distribution without profit to student members of that institution for educational purposes
  
  
• Copying is from the original article

The Company allows readers* to copy, for private study, articles which are published by the Company, without permission and without charge beyond the actual cost of copying, provided the copying is done by the person requiring its use or by an employee of the institution to which he/she belongs.

Online or electronic reproduction
The Company of Biologists does not permit online reproduction or electronic dissemination of entire articles which are published by the Company. Abstracts of such articles may be reposted online or redistributed electronically but must include a link to the original article and an acknowledgement with full bibliographic citation. The acknowledgement should either provide full citation details or refer to the relevant citation in the article reference list. Full citation details should include authors, journal, year, volume, issue and page citation.

*Note that where the Company reproduces any Material with the permission of other publishers, you must seek permission from the copyright holder before using such Material.

Except as expressly provided for under this Copyright Policy all copyright and other rights of the Company in and to the Materials and the Sites are reserved.

Disclaimers
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Users entering, posting or submitting any material on any of the Sites are responsible for the content of such material and such users warrant to the Company that all and any material entered, posted or submitted to the Sites does not infringe any right of copyright, moral right or right of privacy, publicity or personality or analogous right of any nature of any person; and further warrant that such material is not obscene, blasphemous or offensive to religion or libellous of any person or otherwise illegal in any respect. The Company has no responsibility for the content of any material, messages or information posted by users, or for the content of information of third parties on the Internet, even if accessed through the Sites. However the Company retains the right, which it may or may not exercise at its sole discretion, to review and delete from the Sites any material which the Company deems to be illegal, offensive or otherwise inappropriate.

The content of all advertisements and their component documents, images or files, appearing either on the Sites or in any form including without limitation on the printed pages of the Company's Materials, is the sole responsibility of the party which places the advertisement. The Company does not endorse or approve the accuracy or reliability of the content of any advertisements, or of any products connected therewith.

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Offline browsers
If you use an offline browser that allows you to download content from a website and read it later, the Company requires that you configure your offline browser to request no more than twenty pages per minute. If you are not able or willing to do this you should not access or use the Sites. Failure to comply with the foregoing browser configuration requirement will entitle the Company to block your access to the Sites either temporarily or permanently, entirely at the Company's discretion. Should you have your access to the Sites so blocked, please contact us on sales{at}biologists.com.

 

Permissions

All copyright and general permissions enquiries, translations and third party licensing are handled by our Permissions team who can be contacted on permissions{at}biologists.com.

Authors are free to reproduce material from their articles in any printed book (including thesis) of which they are authors. Authors should refer to the Information for Authors sections of individual journal websites for further information.

Commercial reprints can be ordered through our Advertising department, please contact advertising{at}biologists.com.

Multiple article reprints are available, either as a bespoke reprint choosing specific articles or reprinting an existing subject supplement. Please contact advertising{at}biologists.com for pricing and availability.

Educational purpose e.g. reproduction of articles for course packs, classroom handouts, electronic classroom use, please contact permissions{at}biologists.com and refer to Copyright Policy.