The Microbiology Society and the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) have announced a three-year transformative agreement starting in 2022. The Publish and Read model will enable researchers of 86 Max Planck Institutes in Germany to publish any article accepted for publication in the journals of the Society Open Access, without having to pay Article Processing Charges (APCs).
Through the agreement, MPDL will cover costs of Open Access publishing of articles in both fully Open Access and hybrid journals, allowing scientists to retain copyright and secure the broadest possible readership for their work.
The agreement marks a significant milestone in the Microbiology Society’s transformation strategy. The number of institutions worldwide under the Society’s Publish and Read agreements has more than doubled year on year since 2020, paving the way towards an Open Access future.
Member institutions (affiliated authors can check their availability here) are offered unlimited Open Access and unlimited usage, where any user associated with a Publish and Read institution can access the entire archive of Society content, back to 1947, for reading and for text and data mining.
The Publish and Read agreement covers unlimited reading access and provides uncapped publishing rights without author-facing charges across all the Society’s six journals including hybrid titles Microbiology, Journal of General Virology, Journal of Medical Microbiology, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, and fully OA titles Access Microbiology, Microbial Genomics.
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