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<p class="MsoNormal">Apologies for cross posting!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C3B3B">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:14.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C3B3B">The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is proud to announce that it will adopt a
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<span class="email-hyperlink-color-preserver"><b><span style="color:#118BB8;text-decoration:none">Subscribe to Open (S2O)</span></b></span></a> subscription model for its six primary research subscription-based journals in 2025. Those journals are:
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><a href="http://asmusa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zMDIwMDYzJnA9MSZ1PTUxODk0MDkzNiZsaT0zMzM0NDk4Mw/index.html" target="_blank"><span class="email-hyperlink-color-preserver"><b><span style="color:#118BB8;text-decoration:none">Antimicrobial
 Agents and Chemotherapy®</span></b></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#3C3B3B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><a href="http://asmusa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zMDIwMDYzJnA9MSZ1PTUxODk0MDkzNiZsaT0zMzM0NDk4NQ/index.html" target="_blank"><span class="email-hyperlink-color-preserver"><b><span style="color:#118BB8;text-decoration:none">Applied
 and Environmental Microbiology®</span></b></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#3C3B3B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><a href="http://asmusa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zMDIwMDYzJnA9MSZ1PTUxODk0MDkzNiZsaT0zMzM0NDk4Ng/index.html" target="_blank"><span class="email-hyperlink-color-preserver"><b><span style="color:#118BB8;text-decoration:none">Infection
 and Immunity®</span></b></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#3C3B3B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><a href="http://asmusa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zMDIwMDYzJnA9MSZ1PTUxODk0MDkzNiZsaT0zMzM0NDk4Nw/index.html" target="_blank"><span class="email-hyperlink-color-preserver"><b><span style="color:#118BB8;text-decoration:none">Journal
 of Bacteriology®</span></b></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#3C3B3B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><a href="http://asmusa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zMDIwMDYzJnA9MSZ1PTUxODk0MDkzNiZsaT0zMzM0NDk4OA/index.html" target="_blank"><span class="email-hyperlink-color-preserver"><b><span style="color:#118BB8;text-decoration:none">Journal
 of Clinical Microbiology®</span></b></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#3C3B3B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
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 of Virology®</span></b></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:14.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C3B3B">With S2O, if enough institutions subscribe, the journal content for that year will be made Open Access. Current subscribers do not need to do anything new since
 Subscribe to Open utilizes existing library procurement processes. You can simply renew your subscription and your library will receive the following benefits:
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">ASM Early Commit Flat Renewal Pricing:</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> There will be no price increase if a commitment to renew is made by the January 31st, 2025, S2O
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Open Access Guarantee:</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> Subscribing institutions will receive guaranteed Open Access publishing for articles from affiliated authors regardless
 of whether the threshold is met.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#3C3B3B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo6">
<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">No APCs for the six S2O Journals:</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> No Article Processing Charges (APCs) for authors publishing in the six primary research subscription-based
 journals for authors from subscribing institutions. For page charges, ASM provides our
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<span class="email-hyperlink-color-preserver"><b><span style="color:#118BB8;text-decoration:none">members</span></b></span></a> with a 25% discount and authors from subscribing institutions with a 25% discount. Authors who are both ASM members and affiliated
 with subscribing institutions receive a total page charge discount of 50%.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#3C3B3B;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo6">
<strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Funder Compliance:</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> Your decision to move forward with your subscription renewal to Subscribe to Open (S2O) will provide your authors with
 compliance to open access policies for 2025, including OSTP, which issues the guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="margin:0in;line-height:14.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C3B3B">Once the subscription target is met for a journal, that journal’s content becomes open access. Please see our
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<span class="email-hyperlink-color-preserver"><b><span style="color:#118BB8;text-decoration:none">Subscribe to Open</span></b></span></a> page for more information. Renew directly with ASM or with your preferred subscription agent.
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<p style="margin:0in;line-height:14.4pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C3B3B">ASM has also created resources to help our library partners understand how ASM’s adoption of Subscribe to Open affects their patron experience.
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 with ASM’s CEO on Shift to Subscribe to Open Model</span></b></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please feel free to reach out with any questions.  <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="TR" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Jason Kraft</span></b><span lang="TR" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"> |
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Institutional Sales & Licensing Manager, Journals</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">American Society for Microbiology (ASM)<br>
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