The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has announced the mid-2010 launch of mBio, a new open access online journal designed to make microbiology research broadly accessible. The focus of the journal will be on rapid publication of research spanning the entire spectrum of microbiology and related fields. Arturo Casadevall, Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, will serve its Editor-in-Chief.
Every published research article in mBio will be accompanied by a brief non-technical summary written by the author in language that conveys the importance of the work to non-specialists in that area of research.
The new term ‘ASM Access’ has been coined to reference mBio’s particular definition of open access, which otherwise varies among scientific publications. Full text of mBio articles and supplemental materials will be accessible by the public immediately upon publication. Full text of the articles also will be deposited in PubMed Central with access immediately upon publication. mBio authors will be asked to sign a licensing agreement granting publishing rights to ASM and permitting unrestricted non-commercial reuse by others.
The new journal will be linked with the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM), the leadership arm of the ASM. The relationship is expected to allow mBio to draw on the expertise of the Academy’s members to serve in an editorial capacity. ASM already brings out nine specialised primary research journals. Like these, mBio will also be hosted on the HighWire platform at www.journals.asm.org.
A formal ‘Call for Papers’ will be issued in December 2009, and the journal launch is planned for May 2010.
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