As part of its ongoing efforts to make Open Access (OA) publishing more equitable, the Microbiology Society is pleased to announce a new Article Processing Charge (APC) waiver agreement with Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL). The agreement, commencing in January 2025, will cover unlimited fee-free OA publishing in all Society titles for researchers across 33 developing and transition economy countries and territories.
Facilitating a smooth OA publishing experience, corresponding authors from eligible countries or territories will automatically be offered the applicable fee waiver.
Britt-Marie Wideberg, EIFL Licensing Programme Manager: “We are very pleased to have closed an agreement with Microbiology Society. This new agreement will support researchers and authors in 33 EIFL countries and give them the opportunity to publish without any costs. This will also increase the number of articles published OA.”
Peter Cotgreave, Chief Executive of the Microbiology Society: “Championing the research of our international community is a crucial part of our strategy at the Microbiology Society. We are delighted to be working with EIFL to support even more microbiologists across the globe with simple OA publishing to increase visibility of their work.”
This agreement will cover the Microbiology Society’s entire portfolio of hybrid and fully OA journals: Access Microbiology, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, Journal of General Virology, Journal of Medical Microbiology, Microbial Genomics and Microbiology.
