Transformative Agreement Signed between the Microbiology Society and Fudan University
23 January 2024
The Microbiology Society is pleased to announce a transformative agreement with Fudan University in China, starting in 2024. The Publish and Read model will allow affiliated researchers to publish an unlimited number of Open Access (OA) articles in the Society’s six peer-reviewed titles, as well as having full read access across the portfolio. Fudan University is ranked in the top 3 institutions in China for Life Sciences in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024. The Microbiology Society are represented in China by the Charlesworth Group.
Peter Cotgreave, Chief Executive of the Microbiology Society: “We are delighted to have signed this deal with Fudan University, a prestigious institution with great renown in the field of microbiology. Our Publish and Read model will support affiliated researchers with unlimited access to our quality portfolio and simple OA publishing, allowing their excellent research to have greater reach around the world.”
Zhang Min, Director of the Library Resource Construction and Organization Department of Fudan University: “In recent years, Fudan University Library has been focusing on the impact of OA on academic publishing and traditional subscription models.
When the Microbiology Society proposed converting the traditional subscription model to a Publish and Read model, we conducted a full evaluation of the actual situation of the university, and the results showed that the Microbiology Society’s Publish and Read model has obvious advantages, without additional costs: not only allowing read access to all Society titles, but also APC fee waivers for researchers of our university to publish OA, saving academic publishing expenses for the university.
The Microbiology Society’s Publish and Read model takes the direction of OA development that university libraries hope to see, and it is an initiative that can truly promote academic exchange and academic prosperity.”
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 here.
Publish and Read will be across all the Society’s six journals, including hybrid titles Journal of General Virology, Journal of Medical Microbiology and International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, and fully OA titles Microbiology, Access Microbiology and Microbial Genomics.
Microbiology Society
The Microbiology Society is a membership charity for scientists interested in microbes, their effects and their practical uses. It is one of the largest microbiology societies in Europe with a worldwide membership based in universities, industry, hospitals, research institutes and schools.
Contact: Sarah Cooper, Journals Marketing and Development Lead – [email protected]
Fudan University
Fudan upholds the spirit of patriotism, solidarity, service, and sacrifice. Its motto is scientia et studium, quaestio et cogitatio, which means rich in knowledge and tenacious of purposes, inquiring with earnestness and reflecting with self-practice. With a time-honored tradition of academic independence and free exploration, the University is distinguished by its academic character: “rectification of righteousness, illustration of virtue and indifference to honor and reward.”
