Society for General Microbiology announces new open access and open data journal, <i>Microbial Genomics</i>

"Today, at their Annual Conference in Birmingham, the Society for General Microbiology will announce the launch Microbial Genomics, a fully open access journal publishing research articles that use genomic approaches to further our understanding of microbiology, from clinically important pathogens to microbial life in diverse ecosystems. Submissions to Microbial Genomics are open now, with all open access fees waived during the launch period. The journal’s first articles will be published in July 2015. Microbial Genomics is the first journal from the Society to publish with a mandatory open data policy, requiring authors to archive any data associated with their paper. The Society for General Microbiology has partnered with the online data repository Figshare to make all data deposited with them accessible to researchers across the globe, via the published article ..."