American Society for Microbiology

Type

Subscribe to Open (S2O).

Status

Supported since 1 January 2025 (ongoing).

Description

The Library is maintaining its subscriptions to American Society for Microbiology (ASM) S2O journals, helping them make their content fully open access. Under the S2O model, no authors face open access publishing fees if annual subscription targets are met. If ASM's sustainability targets are not met, then only articles from corresponding authors at subscribing institutions will be published open access (without authors facing APCs).

April 2025 update: ASM met their sustainability goal for all six S2O journals below. As such, they will all be publishing open access  without APCs in 2026.

Coverage

Unlimited open access publishing for all authors in the following ASM journals:

• Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (AAC)
• Applied and Environmental Microbiology (AEM)
• Infection and Immunity (IAI)
• Journal of Bacteriology (JB)
• Journal of Clinical Microbiology (JCM)
• Journal of Virology (JVI)

Other fees

ASM journals continue to levy Page Charges and Supplemental Material fees. University of Melbourne corresponding authors are eligible for the discounted "2025 S2O Subscriber Rates" for each of these fees.

Further information

• ASM Journals - Subscribe to Open
• ASM Journals - Publication Fees

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