This agreement is available to current UK based University staff and students, where the University of Southampton has underpinned the research; colleagues with honorary contracts and visitors are not eligible.
Open to all University of Southampton corresponding authors in the following Microbiology Society journals:
Please use your soton.ac.uk email address and affiliation throughout the submission process and your article will be published open access at no cost to the authors. Please select the CC BY licence rather than CC BY-NC or CC BY-ND
Publisher webpage with information on the author fee-free open access agreement.
Applies to articles accepted for publication between 01/01/2021 and 31/12/2026.
Please note the new journal Microbiology Horizons is not included in the agreement for 2026.
Questions? Contact us at eprints@soton.ac.uk