Not-for-profit Society publisher, the Microbiology Society, and the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), have announced a three-year pilot transitional open access (OA) agreement from 2021– 2023. The ’Publish and Read’ deal, will allow researchers at all CSIC’s member institutions to publish an unlimited number of open-access articles and those CSIC institutes, who had subscriptions, will now have access to the Society’s full portfolio in return for a cost-neutral fixed fee.
Under the terms of the agreement, CSIC scientists will be able to publish in the Microbiology Society’s six journals, two of which are born OA journals, the other four subscription and/or hybrid journals, effective from signature of the agreement June 29, 2020.
The Pilot Transitional Agreement reached with the Microbiology Society will help CSIC´s researchers working in biology and biomedicine to gain more impact and visibility for their articles, since they will be published OA. But, at the same time they will not have to bear the costs of article processing charges, since the amount is paid by the CSIC's Library Network via this ‘Publish and Read’ agreement.
In addition, as a result of this pilot, from 2021, access to Microbiology Society journals could be expanded to new CSIC centres that request it, while by 2020 it is only available for three CSIC centres.
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