The Library has entered into a new transformative Read and Publish agreement with the Microbiology Society. This agreement provides the following benefits for library users and affiliated authors:
- 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. This is applicable to all of the society’s 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.
- 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.
The University of Alberta library joins a group of 15 other institutions from four Canadian consortia in this 3-year agreement, which begins in 2022. Information about this fee waiver for University of Alberta authors is posted on the Library’s APC Discounts & Waivers webpage.