The Microbiology Society and four academic consortia across Canada have announced a three-year transformative agreement starting in 2022.
The Society's Publish and Read model will allow affiliated researchers to publish an unlimited number of Open Access (OA) articles in hybrid and fully OA titles, as well as having full read access across the portfolio. 15 institutions have initially opted into the deal signed by the four consortia - The Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL); The Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire (BCI); The Council of Atlantic University Libraries – Conseil des bibliothèques universitaires de l’Atlantique (CAUL-CBUA); and The Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL).
The number of institutions worldwide under the Society’s Publish and Read agreements has more than doubled year on year since 2020, accelerating the pace of change to an Open Access future. The Society’s publishing representative in the region, Accucoms, helped broker the arrangement, the first consortia transformative agreement signed in North America, and a blueprint for more.
Affiliated authors with Publish and Read Institutions are entitled to unlimited OA publishing, where 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, 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.
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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