For Librarians
About Microbiology Resource Announcements
Microbiology Resource Announcements (MRA) is an online-only, fully open access journal that publishes articles announcing the availability of any microbiological resource deposited in a repository available to the community. In addition to genome sequences of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in public databases, as published in Genome Announcements, MRA will consider metagenomics sequences, amplicon sequence collections, metabolomics data, proteome data, culture collections, mutant libraries, plasmids and other genetic constructs, and publicly available databases and software. Manuscripts submitted to MRA will be peer reviewed by a board of Senior Editors for appropriate content and accepted and published at the Editor's discretion.
MRA articles are in weekly issues (50 issues per year). Articles published in MRA fully meet the open access requirements of funding agencies such as the NIH and Wellcome Trust.
Adding Open Access Titles To Your Collection
ASM publishes Microbiology Resource Announcements content under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The author(s) retains copyright under this license. Others may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, adapt, link to, reorganize, and build upon the published work for any purpose, even commercially, as long as credit to the author and original article is given. For more information about reusing MRA content, see the Proprietary Rights page.
We encourage you to demonstrate your commitment to making microbiology research widely available by ensuring MRA is included in your institution's collection. Be sure to add the new MRA ISSN 2576-098X to your Link Resolver under your institution’s customized list of titles for your library. If your institution does not currently subscribe to an online ASM journal, you may contact us to request a free institutional account that will allow you to access MRA usage data for your libraries.
Usage Reports
Usage reports provide institutions with the number of HTML pageviews and PDF downloads of full text articles. If your institution has an online subscription to any of the following ASM journals (Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy®, Applied and Environmental Microbiology®, Clinical Microbiology Reviews®, Infection and Immunity®, Journal of Bacteriology®, Journal of Clinical Microbiology®, Journal of Virology®, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews®, and/or Molecular and Cellular Biology®), you will automatically be provided with usage statistics for Microbiology Resource Announcements as well. You can access your reports here. In addition, you can create an account on the HighWire Portal that allows you to access usage statistics and cross-journal reporting for all of your HighWire-hosted journals at once.
For assistance with your institutional subscription, please review our Institutional Subscribers information page.
Microbiology Resource Announcements began as Genome Announcements and was published with this title through 5 July 2018 (Volumes 1-6). The online ISSN assigned to Genome Announcements is 2169-8287, and Genome Announcements content remains available to users on this journal website.