International Open Access Week highlights the move toward breaking down barriers and sharing knowledge with the greater community through Open Access publications. This year’s theme, "Who Owns Our Knowledge?" asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce.

Our Continued Commitment to Open Access*

Every year, ASM Journals offers more opportunities for authors to publish Open Access, giving their trusted research greater accessibility and accelerating scientific advancement globally. ASM has adopted a Subscribe to Open (S2O) subscription model for its 6 primary research, subscription-based journals, increasing equitable knowledge sharing. Explore our S2O journals below.

S2O Advances ASM’s Publishing Mission in the Following Ways:

• Guarantees timely access to current ASM journal content.
• Enables Open Access publishing for corresponding authors in ASM’s 6 primary research journals.
• Removes paywalls, empowers authors and amplifies scientific discovery.

ASM Journals is also proud to announce the launch of ASM’s newest Open Access journal, ASM Animal Microbiology™, which focuses on One Health microbiology and microbe-host interactions at the interface of animals, people and the environment.

Subscribe to Open (S2O) Model

The following journals are included in our Subscribe to Open (S2O) model, making publishing and access to research more equitable around the world.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy®
Research that examines the mechanisms and therapeutic applications of antimicrobial and antiparasitic agents and chemotherapy.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology®
Significant and novel studies on all aspects of applied and environmental microbiology, from fundamental to translational research.

Infection and Immunity®
Papers on infections by bacteria, fungi and parasites; molecular mechanisms of pathogenicity; interactions of virulence factors with host cells.

Journal of Bacteriology®
Studies on vital processes in bacteria, archaea and their viruses; molecular mechanisms of interaction with each other, hosts and environments.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology®
Research on laboratory diagnosis of human and animal infections and the laboratory’s role in epidemiology and management of infectious diseases.

Journal of Virology®
Covers fundamental processes and structure in viruses, the mechanisms by which they interact and evolve with their host and environment.

Fully Open Access

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) defines Open Access as “free access to information and unrestricted use of electronic resources for everyone.” This approach promotes global collaboration, accelerating scientific progress. ASM Journals upholds Open Access principles and offers various publishing models to enhance accessibility, foster collaboration and accelerate scientific advancement worldwide. This commitment ensures that researchers, practitioners and the public can easily access and engage with high-impact, quality research. The following ASM Journals are fully Open Access with every article open to all readers upon publication.

ASM Animal Microbiology™ 
Dedicated to the dissemination of high-quality, authoritative studies on animal-associated microbes and their impact on animal and public health.

ASM Case Reports
Provides a dedicated platform for the highest-quality case reports in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases.

Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education^®
Papers on the teaching and learning of microbiology and biology, including discipline-based education research studies.

mBio^®
Highly selective Open Access journal publishing the best research in microbiology.

Microbiology Resource Announcements^®
Articles announcing the availability of any microbiological resource deposited in a repository available to the community.

Microbiology Spectrum^®
Research studies from all domains of basic, applied and clinical microbiology that are of high technical quality and useful to the community.

mSphere^®
Broad Open Access journal for the multidisciplinary research community advancing all areas of the microbial sciences.

mSystems^®
Papers on omics technologies, microbiome, bioinformatics, computational microbiology and synthetic biology.

 

There’s a home for all types of research at ASM. Explore our latest calls for papers and opportunities to publish Open Access. 

*Open Access is unavailable for articles published in ASM’s Review Journals: Clinical Microbiology Reviews®, EcoSal Plus® or Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews®.