Open Access

The Society for General Microbiology is a not-for-profit, society-owned publisher. Across its journals, articles were made available under the access terms in force at the time of publication; in hybrid journals, many articles became freely available after an embargo period.

This archive preserves the published research so the record, and the citations pointing to it, remain accessible. For current Open Access policies, see the Microbiology Society's current journal websites.