Member Record

Microbiology Society


Name	Microbiology Society
Membership Category	Professional Publisher (Medium)
Website	www.microbiologyresearch.org
Owner	Microbiology Society is a membership charity for microbiologists; we publish six journals of which two are fully OA.
Main Address	14-16 Meredith Street London EC1R 0AB
Other Office Locations
Copyright and Licensing Link	https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/forms-and-templates Authors retain copyright even in subscription articles
Copyright and Licensing Policy	CC-BY, with an option for CC-BY-NC if the funder requires it.
Complaint Contact Link	https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/ethics-policies
Complaint Policy	We welcome feedback on everything we do, and that includes complaints. These should be addressed to the relevant journal email, and a member of the team will respond as quickly as possible. Microbiology: micro@microbiologysociety.org Journal of General Virology: jgv@microbiologysociety.org Journal of Medical Microbiology: jmm@microbiologysociety.org Microbial Genomics: mgen@microbiologysociety.org International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology: ijsem@microbiologysociety.org Access Microbiology: acmi@microbiologysociety.org
Publication Charge Link	https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/publishing-costs
Publication Charge Policy	o No APC charge applies to corresponding authors affiliated with institutions that are signed up to Publish and Read; all OA publishing charges in full and hybrid titles are pre-paid by the institution. o The ability to pay will never affect editorial decision-making which will be kept strictly independent. o We offer a 100% waiver to corresponding authors from institutions based in Hinari countries. o We offer APC discounts to members of the Society and on a title-by-title basis to affiliated societies
OASPA Compliant OA Journals	2
OA Articles (approx. number in 12 months)	400
OASPA Compliant OA Books
Peer Review Process Link
Peer Review Policy	Our journals operate a single-blind peer-review system, where reviewers are made aware of the names and affiliations of the authors after they agree to review, but the reviewer reports provided to authors are anonymous.
Initiatives	We have introduced ‘Publish and Read’ transformative agreements in 2020 to accelerate OA in our journals: https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/publish-and-read

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