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What is Open Data and how will the research community benefit from it on our open research platform?
September 1, 2021
The Microbiology Society’s sound science and open access journal, Access Microbiology, will be converting into an open research platform early next year and will include an Open Data policy. This blog gives some background on Open Data and describes the details and benefits of this policy for authors, researchers, and the wider community.
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Preprints, publications and publishing ethics
July 20, 2021
The Microbiology Society’s sound science and open access journal, Access Microbiology, will be converting into an open research platform early next year. This platform will include posting all article versions as preprints, with a transparent peer review process and acceptance required for full publication.
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What will our open research platform publish and how will it advance microbiology?
June 22, 2021
The Microbiology Society’s sound science and open access journal, Access Microbiology, will be converting into an open research platform at the beginning of 2022. This blog examines the benefits of publishing sound science and details the broad range of article types we are aiming to publish on the platform.
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Using manuscript review tools to improve your articles on the open research platform
May 20, 2021
The Microbiology Society’s sound science and open access journal, Access Microbiology, will be converting into an open research platform at the beginning of 2022 and the incorporation of various manuscript review tools is a key element of this. Find out more about the tools in this blog.
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Access Microbiology is evolving
April 20, 2021
Last Summer, the Microbiology Society secured a Learned Society Curation Award from the Wellcome Trust and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. This was provided to us following our application to develop our sound science, open access journal, Access Microbiology, into an open research platform.
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Increasing the scope of Access Microbiology
April 24, 2019
Following feedback from our members, we have increased the scope of our new, open access journal, Access Microbiology to include papers that discuss pedagogy, the science of teaching.
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Access Microbiology Mentor Scheme Q&A
March 21, 2019
Access Microbiology is the newest journal from the Microbiology Society. This unique, fully open access publication covers the full spectrum of microbial life, and all approaches to the science of microbiology. One of the aspects of Access Microbiology that makes it unique is the editorial board; early career researchers who want to develop editorial skills are paired with experienced editors who they can go to for queries and advice on editorial matters. We asked mentee Dr Helina Marshall and mentor Professor Jeff Cole about their respective roles and experiences so far.
