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Access to full-text articles back to the dates of journal origin for ASM's online primary-research journal articles is FREE 4 months after an issue's publication. For example, on September 1, the full-text articles from the previous May issue become free.

Access to full-text articles back to the dates of journal origin for the online review journals, Clinical Microbiology Reviews and Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, is FREE 1 year after publication.

 

ASM Authors Are In Compliance With NIH Policy

Effective April 2008, the NIH initiated a policy requiring that all investigators funded by the NIH either submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication. Authors of ASM journal articles are automatically in compliance with this policy and need take no action themselves.

For the past several years, the ASM has deposited in PubMed Central all publications from all ASM journals. Further, ASM policy effective for the past several years is that all primary ASM literature is made available to everyone, free (open access), 4 months after publication through PubMed Central, Highwire, Google, and international PubMed Central-like repositories. All review articles, published quarterly, are available through these venues 12 months after publication.  By having initiated these policies, the ASM is in full compliance with NIH policy.

 

Website Posting by Authors

 

As indicated in the Instructions to Authors, ASM authors may post their own final published articles on their personal or university-hosted (but not corporate, government, or similar) websites without ASM’s prior written permission provided that appropriate credit is given (i.e., either the copyright lines shown on the top of the first page of the PDF version or “Copyright © American Society for Microbiology, [insert journal name, volume number, page numbers, and year]” for the HTML version).

 

A corresponding author who has included an e-mail address in his “corresponding author” footnote will have access (10 downloads) to the PDF file of his published article.  For details, see the Instructions to Authors.

 


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