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The Big Ten 91视频 and the Microbiology Society are delighted to announce a three-year open publishing agreement from 2023, facilitated by Accucoms. will allow affiliated researchers at 15 universities to publish an unlimited number of Open Access (OA) articles in hybrid and fully OA titles, as well as have full read access to the Society鈥檚 journals portfolio. This agreement has been made possible by Accucoms.

鈥淭he libraries of the Big Ten 91视频 are close partners with the researchers, faculty, and authors of our universities to advance open, more equitable scholarship,鈥� said Maurice York, Director of Library Initiatives for the Big Ten 91视频. 鈥淥pen Publishing agreements such as this are a key part of our strategy for moving toward that ideal. We鈥檙e very excited to reach this agreement and add the Microbiology Society journals to our Open portfolio.鈥�

Peter Cotgreave, Chief Executive of the Microbiology Society said: 鈥淲e are very pleased to announce this agreement with the Big Ten 91视频 in the United States 鈥� it demonstrates the reach of the Society鈥檚 model for sustainable Open Access and its relevance internationally to academic institutions, facilitating Open Access for more researchers across the globe.鈥�

鈥淎ccucoms are thrilled to have brokered an agreement between BTAA and Microbiology Society leading the charge towards Open Access. This Publish & Read agreement not only gives institutions but also authors maximum value, by providing unlimited submissions and removing transactional barriers.鈥� Kimberly Blizzard, Commercial Manager 鈥� North America, Accucoms.

The number of international institutions opting into Publish and Read agreements with the Microbiology Society is set to double year-on-year since its launch in 2020.

Affiliated authors with Publish and Read Institutions are entitled to:

• 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.
• 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.

Authors can check if their institution is eligible on the Microbiology Society .

Publish and Read is available across the Society鈥檚 six journals, including hybrid titles , , , and fully OA titles , and .