UVM Libraries is participating in a Read & Publish Agreement with the publisher Microbiology Society that fully covers the Author Processing Charge (APC) for accepted articles in their journal catalog. 

A Read & Publish Agreement is a contract between a publisher and library that includes both standard subscriptions to journals and coverage of Author Processing Charges (APCs) for affiliated authors.  

UVM's agreement with Microbiology Society will cover APCs for UVM/UVMMC affiliated authors.  

This agreement covers all of the OA and hybrid journals of the Microbiology Society.

No. The process of submitting an article for publication is identical until after it has been reviewed and accepted.

No.  Neither this agreement nor the Libraries have any impact on article acceptance.

• University of Vermont
  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Students
• University of Vermont Medical Center Employees

Yes.

No. Affiliation will be checked before an APC credit is approved. 

One author on a covered article must be a UVM affiliate; however, other authors of the same article may have different affiliations. 

No. You do not have to be first author. 

You DO have to be an author - other types of contribution are not sufficient. 

All articles authored by UVM affiliates.

No. All APCs are covered in full, whether $500 or $10,000.

You must submit your article using your UVM or UVM Medical Center email address, and/or list your institutional affiliation as one of these two entities. 

Your affiliation must be current on the date your article is accepted.

After your article has been accepted, Microbiology Society will publish your article Open Access (OA) by default.

• If you do NOT want it to be OA, you can check a box to Opt Out.

You must accept one of the available Creative Commons Licenses for your article. 

Authors retain their copyright, but allow others to access or use their work without consultation or fees under one of several standard Creative Commons licenses. Works licensed under a Creative Commons License must still be cited when used. 

"A creative commons license is a license issued by the copyright owner to allow anyone in the world to use his or her copyright work in any manner consistent with that license. Creative Commons licenses are essentially standard form license agreements which can be attached to a work to enable its use under certain circumstances without the need to contact the author or negotiate terms of use."

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If you do not want your article to be published OA, you do not have to. You can check a box to Opt Out.

UVM is beginning to add more agreements like this one. Find out more about them on the Library's Open Access Publishing Support Guide.