The Microbiology Society and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences have announced a transformative agreement starting in 2023. The Publish and Read model will allow affiliated researchers at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences to publish an unlimited number of Open Access (OA) articles in hybrid and fully OA titles, as well as having full read access the Society’s journals portfolio. The Microbiology Society is represented in China by the Charlesworth Group. The number of international institutions opting into Publish and Read agreements with the Society is set to double year-on-year since its launch in 2020.
Affiliated authors with Publish and Read Institutions are entitled to: Unlimited OA publishing: any article published in Society journals where the corresponding author is from a Publish and Read institution will be OA by default; and Unlimited usage: 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.
Authors can check if their institution is eligible here.
Publish and Read will be 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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