The Company of Biologists launches fully accessible journal archive

The Company of Biologists has announced the launch of a fully accessible journal archive, providing institutions with perpetual access to more than 34,000 articles published between 1853 and 2004.

The archive covers the publisher’s three established journals — Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology — and brings together more than a century of research across developmental biology, cell biology, comparative physiology and biomechanics. The collection includes work from more than 60 Nobel Prize-winning researchers.

According to the publisher, significant work has taken place behind the scenes to ensure the archive is both comprehensive and accessible for modern users.

Over recent years, internal teams have converted previously PDF-only content into fully searchable HTML formats. This aims to improve discoverability, enable better accessibility across devices and support seamless reference linking between articles.

The archive also includes complete digital reproductions of original journal content. Every article has been assigned a DOI, and usage metrics are available across the archive.

Shelly Turner, Sales and Marketing Director, The Company of Biologists, says: “We believe that access to knowledge should be lasting so are delighted to offer our journal archive as a safeguard for institutions that depend on long-term information access. By offering our journal archive on a perpetual access basis, researchers can rely on stable, uninterrupted access to past content and allow them to build on previous works.”

Institutions can purchase perpetual access either to the complete three-journal archive collection or to individual journal archives depending on institutional requirements.