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Microbiology 75 This year marks 75 years of our founding journal,
Supporting Open Access: the growth of Publish and Read The Society continues to expand its successful Publish and Read model, now facilitating Open Access (OA) at 270 institutions across five continents. The Society’s business model, created in collaboration with other membership organisations in the Society Publishers’ Coalition, enables libraries to repurpose subscription spend and simplify administration for OA publishing. Affiliated researchers are entitled to uncapped, fee-free OA publishing, including in our fully OA titles, and access to all content on the platform. The model continues to go from strength to strength, onboarding individual institutions as well as national consortia in the UK (JISC), Australia (CAUL) and Canada (COPPUL, BCI, CAUL-CBUA, OCUL). The Society is actively working to grow the reach of this transformative agreement as a key tool in its journey to a sustainable OA future. What’s more, by publishing with a Society journal, you will also support funding for our grants, events and activities for the community. Find out more at microbiologyresearch.org/ publish-and-read . Microbiology Society launches open research platform Our sound science journal, Access Microbiology , has re- launched as an innovative open research platform, embracing smart manuscript review tools, transparent peer review and Open Data. The Open Access platform offers a new service for members of our community to disseminate their work rapidly, transparently and rigorously, and is a home for all research outlets, not just traditional research. Access Microbiology welcomes work from all branches of microbiology and virology, including replication studies, negative or null results, interdisciplinary work and more. It is a symbol of the wider transformation that is to come at the Society towards a world of Open Science. The platform is now open for submissions – free to publish until June 2023 ( acmi.microbiologyresearch.org ).
Microbiology ( mic.microbiologyresearch.org ), and 75 years of publishing for the community. Throughout the year, there have been a series of activities celebrating this milestone, and we are pleased to highlight the second of three historical articles that are being published this year. ‘How Microbiology was run’ ( doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001234 ) explores what was involved in running the journal, the challenges it faced at different times, and how a general microbiology journal fit in an evolving discipline. In line with the biennial bacterial cell–cell communication meeting which took place in June last year, Microbiology launched the Environmental Sensing and Cell–Cell Communication collection. Guest edited by Martin Welch (University of Cambridge) and Anugraha Mathew (University of Zurich), submissions are welcomed on microbial sensing and signalling pathways, quorum sensing, chemoreception, secondary metabolism, and the complex interplay between different sensory pathways. The final collection of the year will focus on the journal’s newer section category, Microbial Evolution, and aligns with the Understanding and Predicting Microbial Evolutionary Dynamics meeting. This collection and meeting are organised by Microbiology Senior Editor and Editors: Michael Brockhurst (University of Manchester, UK); Jenna Gallie (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany); James Hall (University of Liverpool, UK); Stineke Van Houte (University of Exeter, UK). More information on how to submit will be released soon, so keep an eye out! We would like to thank everyone who has supported Microbiology so far. We look forward to our Open Access future, which you can learn more about in Gavin Thomas’ article on page 75, and hope that you will join us on our journey and influence the future of Microbiology . From January 2023, all articles published in Microbiology will be Open Access. The Microbiology Society is a not-for- profit publisher, publishing for the community, and all journals income is invested back into the Society.
73 Microbiology Today October 2022 | microbiologysociety.org
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