The Microbiology Society was established in 1945 and is a membership charity for scientists interested in microbes, their effects and their practical uses. As a non-profit Society publisher, we are not for profit and everything we offer our microbiologist community happens thanks to the revenue generated by publishing.
Microbiology Society is offering CAUL members Publish and Read agreement at uncapped publishing limits to our journals and the access of these journals from issue one volume one. PAR is designed to provide a frictionless OA experience for authors and maximum value for institutions, with minimum administration.
Further information on this agreement is available from the Microbiology Society.
This page was last updated on 7 February 2025.
The following institutions participate in this agreement:
Authors who do not see their institution listed above should contact library staff to enquire further.
Please note, all CAUL member institutions can access a limited pool of APC waivers for Access Microbiology. See 'Discount schemes' below for details.
This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish in all of the Microbiology Society's hybrid and gold journals without the need for any transactional open access article processing charge (APC).
This is an uncapped agreement. There is no limit on the number of articles that can be published OA under this agreement.
We are a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and believe that while metrics form part of a holistic assessment of research, no metric should be used in isolation to assess the value and impact of research. To this end we have created this page to show a range of metrics about our journals, as well as providing article-level metrics for every article. We hope in this way to allow assessment of the impact of individual articles as well as the journals in which they are published.
Articles submitted from 1/1/2025 are eligible to be published open access under this agreement.
All article types are eligible for open access under this agreement:
As defined by the publisher, the eligible author is:
Corresponding authors are entitled to free Open Access publishing and read access to all journals.
Responsible corresponding authors must include a participating institution as one of their affiliations to benefit from this agreement.
Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their:
Responsible corresponding authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication.
Responsible corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.
Corresponding authors must submit using an institutional email domain to be recognised as eligible for unlimited OA publishing.
Articles not covered by this agreement may benefit from a 100% discount on eligible APCs.
CAUL institutions have been provided with 100 APC waivers for Access Microbiology, the Microbiology Society's sound science, open research platform. These waivers are available to CAUL institutions that do not currently have agreements with the Microbiology Society on a first come first serve basis.
The agreement allows for publishing in all journals. The complete title list is available online. If you wish to publish open access, please check to ensure that your desired journal is included.
Hybrid journals that 'flip' to OA during the course of this agreement will remain available for OA publishing for the duration of the agreement.
Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the following Creative Commons licenses:
Authors retain all rights as per the CC license.
Further information about licenses is available on the publisher's website.
The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors.
Article approvals are managed by the publisher via Rightslink.
Microbiology Society does not charge additional fees for page and/or colour fees. Authors should always check each journal’s submission guidelines to ensure that they will not be subject to any other fees or charges.
The following instructions for authors have been provided by the publisher.
Corresponding authors can check their fee-free eligibility and then indicate the Publish and Read route for OA during the submission process.
We check corresponding author eligibility as part of the submission and publication process using email domain names.
The corresponding author's affiliation must match the paying institution on the date of acceptance.
Affiliation to a Publish and Read institution as stated in the accepted paper is the decisive parameter for eligibility.
Providing correct affiliation information (including an institutional email address) is the responsibility of corresponding authors.
Further details on Open Access submission and peer review workflow are available from the Microbiology Society's website.
Please email journals@microbiologysociety.org for questions regarding this agreement. Please include your full name, institution, article title, journal name and DOI (if available), and state the reason for your enquiry.
Please contact library staff at your institution for questions related to this agreement. They can provide advice on using the CAUL Open Access Agreements.
