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Terms and conditions for online access to the full text of Microbiota and Host
Benefits
- Microbiota and Host is fully open access, and as such, all readers may access the full text of the electronic version of the journal content online.
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Conditions
- There must be no systematic copying of the whole or of a substantial fraction of any journal issue (see also Proprietary Rights Notice below).
- There must be no resale of any full-text article.
Open-access content
Microbiota and Host articles are freely available to all without any access restrictions, either on this site or elsewhere. Readers may freely save, share and adapt the content, subject to the licence type of the individual article. Please check the licence type before adapting any article.
Table 1: Terms of the user licences offered by Microbiota and Host
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Copy and redistribute in any medium or format |
Remix, transform, and build upon the material |
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*Authors publishing under the CC BY-NC-ND licence grant the society owner(s) and/or the publisher commercial rights.
Proprietary Rights Notice for Microbiota and Host
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