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Open Access Week: top downloaded papers from our Publish and Read community
October 25, 2023
This Open Access (OA) Week the theme is 'Community over Commercialisation' and we are showcasing the top read 2023 papers from our Publish and Read community: each one was published OA thanks to a Publish and Read agreement at the corresponding author’s institution.
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Community over Commercialization: supporting researchers through not-for-profit Open Access
October 24, 2023
Each October, Open Access Week brings together individuals and organisations from across the globe in conversation about the challenges and opportunities for making research more open, equitable and sustainable. This year’s theme of “Community over Commercialization” is an important one, which “seeks to encourage a candid conversation about which approaches to open scholarship prioritize the best interests of the public and the academic community—and which do not.”1
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Microbiology's Open Access transformation: mid-year content spotlight
July 5, 2023
To celebrate 6 months fully Open Access, we’re taking a look at some of the remarkable content published in Microbiology in 2023.
Sharing advances across the field of microbiology for over 75 years, Microbiology – the Microbiology Society’s founding journal – transitioned to fully Open Access (OA) in January 2023. This exciting transformation has made research in this established, peer-reviewed journal accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. -
Access Microbiology open research platform’s first Version of Record: an interview with the authors
November 30, 2022
Access Microbiology is an innovative sound science, open-research platform by the Microbiology Society. Today marks a major milestone for the platform with the first Version of Record published since the platform's launch in 2022.
Two of the paper’s authors, Stephen Garrett and Professor Tracy Palmer, share their thoughts on the new open platform and the process of publishing with Access Microbiology. -
Peer Review Week: Research integrity through collaborative and transparent peer review
September 19, 2022
This year’s Peer Review Week focuses on research integrity and the role of reviewers in upholding it. Following a peer review workshop held by the Microbiology Society at the Early Career Microbiologists’ (ECM) Summer Conference 2022, we asked attendees how they found the session and discussed the value of transparent peer review, as well as its potential challenges for Editors.
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Best of the journals 2019
January 3, 2020
We've already covered the most-read blog posts from 2019 and now it is time to re-cap some of the most downloaded articles from the Microbiology Society’s journals and the amazing science that was published in 2019.
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How to write a graphical abstract
August 6, 2019
There are many ways to summarise and present your research, and graphical abstracts are becoming increasingly popular with journals and scientists. Condensing an entire manuscript, or PhD thesis, into a single figure seems like an impossible task to many. Visually representing any biological process can feel overwhelming, especially in microbiology where the main research subject is so small, but you don’t have to be an artist to make a graphical abstract. Here, we provide some advice on how to produce a graphical abstract and some key things to think about.
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Microbes in Norwich: Presentation prize winners
April 17, 2019
This year, the Microbiology Society’s journals will be sponsoring oral and poster prizes at conferences and meetings around the world. We will be getting to know a little bit more about the prize winners and their research.
