SGM makes all 'Swine Flu' papers available feee online

07 May 2009 Society for General Microbiology

A novel influenza A H1N1 virus has just emerged in Mexico and is spreading to other countries. This highly infectious, so-called 'swine flu' is causing great concern worldwide for public health. Recognizing the importance of making research findings on swine 'flu easily accessible, leading microbiological publisher Society for General Microbiology (SGM) has made all papers on H1N1 influenza viruses in Journal of General Virology (JGV) and Journal of Medical Microbiology
(JMM) freely available online.

Information on accessing the papers is at:

JGV http://jgv.sgmjournals.org/misc/news_060509.dtl

JMM http://jmm.sgmjournals.org/misc/news_060509.dtl

Under normal circumstances, papers published in JGV and JMM are freely available without subscription 12 months after publication. The decision to remove access controls on recent influenza A H1N1 articles was made by the Editors-in-Chief of the two journals as part of the SGM's commitment to raising the understanding of microbiology. JGV Editor-in-Chief Richard Elliott (University of St Andrews, UK) said, "I am delighted to relax the access controls on H1N1 papers, so that the
information they contain on recent research is immediately available. It is very important to make every effort to assist the international health and microbiology community who are dealing with the current outbreak, as well as to inform the public."