Agreement period

1 Jan 2024 – 31 Dec 2026

Agreement details:

This agreement gives current staff and students at participating institutions:

Access to the contents of the following Microbiology Society journals:

• International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 
• Journal of General Virology
• Microbial Genomics

The ability to make their articles accepted for publication in the following Microbiology Society journals open access without author-facing article processing charges (APCs).:

• International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 
• Journal of General Virology
• Journal of Medical Microbiology
• Microbiology
• Microbial Genomics
• Access Microbiology

See list of all the eligible journals in all IReL TAs: http://bit.ly/irelOAjournals.

Eligible authors

The corresponding author must be a current staff member or student of Maynooth University at the time the article is accepted for publication. The corresponding author must ensure their correct affiliation details are known to the publisher at this time. 

Eligible article types:

Original research articles

OA publishing license:

Published under the terms of the CC-BY licence;

Further information

• Microbiology Society’s Read and Publish agreements
• Information for authors: Author Journey
• listing on ESAC Registry of Transformative Agreements – microbio2021ie

Microbiology Society Press Release June 2020: Increasing transparency and openness