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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="color:black">March 2022 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#213368;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Transformative Agreement Signed between the Microbiology Society and Institute of Microbiology</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#213368;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">,</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#213368;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
Chinese Academy of Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The Microbiology Society and Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS) are pleased to announce their transformative agreement
starting in 2022. </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/publish-and-read"><span style="color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The Publish and Read model</span></a></span><span style="color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
</span><span style="color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">will allow researchers at affiliated institutions to publish an unlimited number of Open Access (OA) articles in hybrid and fully OA titles, as well as having full read access to the Society’s journals
portfolio.</span><span style="color:#595959"> </span><span style="color:#595959"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="color:#595959"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Hua Xiang, Ph.D, Professor & Deputy Director-General, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences</span><span style="color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">:
“To support Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS) authors, we are happy to have signed this publish and read agreement with the Microbiology Society. This agreement will support the open, international exchange of research in microbiology.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Peter Cotgreave, Chief Executive of the Microbiology Society: “We are very pleased to announce this agreement with Institute of Microbiology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences – the largest microbiological research institution in China and historically one of the most prolific institutes worldwide choosing to publish its high quality research in our journals. This deal demonstrates the reach of the Society’s
model for sustainable Open Access and its relevance internationally to academic and government institutions, facilitating Open Access for more researchers across the globe.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The number of international institutions opting into Publish and Read agreements with the Society has doubled year-on-year since its launch
in 2020. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="color:#595959;background:white">Affiliated authors with Publish and Read institutions</span></span><span style="color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
are entitled to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Unlimited OA publishing</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">: any article published in Society journals where the corresponding author is from a Publish and Read institution will be OA by default.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#595959;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Unlimited usage:</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;line-height:115%;background:white">
<span style="color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Authors can check if their institution is eligible
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/fee-free-open-access"><span style="color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">here</span></a></span><span style="color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Publish and Read will be across all the Society’s six journals, including hybrid titles </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;text-decoration:none">Microbiology</span></i></a></span><span style="color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">,</span><span style="color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;text-decoration:none">Journal
of General Virology</span></i></a></span><span style="color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">,</span><span style="color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;text-decoration:none">Journal
of Medical Microbiology</span></i></a></span><span style="color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">,</span><span style="color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;text-decoration:none">International
Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology</span></i></a></span><span style="color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">, and fully OA titles </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/acmi" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;text-decoration:none">Access
Microbiology</span></i></a></span><span style="color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">,
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/mgen" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:#002060;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;text-decoration:none">Microbial Genomics</span></i></a></span><span style="color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Microbiology Society
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Our principal goal is to develop, expand and strengthen the networks available to our members so that they
can generate new knowledge about microbes and ensure that it is shared with other communities. The impacts from this will drive us towards a world in which the science of microbiology provides maximum benefit to society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Contact: Jade Heyman, Journal Sales and Transformation Manager –
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:j.heyman@microbiologysociety.org"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">j.heyman@microbiologysociety.org</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:#002060"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;text-decoration:none">Journals website:
</span></span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;text-decoration:none">
</span></span><span style="color:#595959"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:115%;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Institute of Microbiology</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">,
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS) is the largest microbiological research institution in China. It</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">‘</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">s
research areas include: Microbiology, Genetics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Microbial Cell Biology, Pathogenic Microbiology, Virology, Microbial-plant Interaction, Immunology, Genome Editing, Microbiome</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">,
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Microbial Ecology, Fungal Biology, Microbiomics and Bioinformatics, Synthetic Biology and Microbial Technology, Microbial Systems and Evolutionary Biology, Microbial
Pharmacy, Crop-borne Diseases, Protein Engineering Technology, etc. IMCAS has developed into a comprehensive microbiological research institution with rich heritage, great strength and international reputation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Contact:
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:xiangh@im.ac.cn"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">xiangh@im.ac.cn</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Website:
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://english.im.cas.cn"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">http://english.im.cas.cn</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The Charlesworth Group<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:115%;background:white">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#58595B;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Microbiology Society is advised and represented in China by The Charlesworth Group. With over 20 years of experience in China, The Charlesworth Group is recognised globally
as China's trusted partner for sales and marketing representation. Transformational agreements are at the heart of the accelerating shift to Open Access publishing – and we are at the forefront of taking transformative models to the market in China.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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