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<p class="MsoNormal">As the Microbiology Society’s founding journal, <i>Microbiology</i>, begins its milestone 75th year, the Council of the Microbiology Society is delighted to announce that
<b><i>Microbiology</i> will be the first in the Society’s journal portfolio to transition from a hybrid model to Gold Open Access</b>
<b>in 2023</b>. It follows two years of unprecedented growth in the proportion of Open Access articles published in the journal.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Jade Heyman
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Microbiology Society | </span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.microbiologysociety.org/"><span style="color:#008461;text-decoration:none">microbiologysociety.org</span></a><span style="color:#E19846"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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