 Hi, my name is Kimberly Klein. I'm really happy to share with you the announcement of a new journal supported by the Federation of European Microbiological Societies called FEMS microbes And our tagline is open science toward a sustainable world So FEMS microbe is a new open access journal It's a gold open access journal and we are covering all aspects of microbiology and microbial sciences in the journal. And so more specifically we aim to publish basic and applied research within a broad range of microbiology including industrial microbiology, environmental microbiology, clinical and veterinary microbiology, as well as current methodological advances that would be of general interest to across microbial sciences And we've swept the journal up into five sections that we think encompass the diversity of areas covered by microbial sciences. So these are microbes and metabolism microbes and multicellular life microbes and disease microbes and environment and microbes and society I'm one of three editors-in-chief at the journal I'm based in Singapore and the other editors-in-chief are Jenna Jass who is based in sweden and Kathleen Scott who's based in the United States And I think you can see quite quickly and easily that we are an all-female editorial board And so this was not intentional, but it's a happy accident because one of our real big big goals of the journal is to promote diversity in the people that are participating in and publishing in the journal And this is also reflected in our broader editorial board. You can see on the left We have representation across genders across nations of origin across ethnicities career stages as well as scientific expertise In addition, we think FM's microbes is a really great home for your research publications for a variety of reasons We have really progressive publication policies. So we very happy to accept submissions of papers that are posted on preprint servers We have a very transparent peer review process. So authors have the option to have their peer reviews The comments from reviewers published along with their paper And they also have the option to publish their own author responses to those reviews In addition, reviewers have the option to disclose their names at the time of publication We also recognize co-reviewers So if a postdoc or a phd student helps a reviewer review a manuscript That co-reviewer can be acknowledged in in pub lawns We also offer scooping protections. So if you have a paper that's in the review process at fems microbes And a similar paper is published elsewhere This has no adverse consequences that we will proceed with the peer review process as per normal We also have publication discounts for all members of fems affiliated societies And we are very lucky that we are supported by our publisher oxford university press as well as fems To help promote the visibility of our manuscript and we can see how that's going through article level metrics And so we can actually gauge who's reading and who's seeing our research So we also are really Dedicated to engaging and supporting early career scientists at fems microbes and we're doing this in a variety of ways One is that we hope to engage early career scientists in the review process And so we know it's often hard to find those early career scientists and know what their expertise is based on How papers are published in the corresponding authorship that is usually affiliated with published papers And so what we've done is started a database of early career scientists And so we're trying to build this network of people that are interested in reviewing And so if you're interested in being an early career reviewer with fems microbes You can submit your letter of interest and a cv to the email here on the slide In addition, as I mentioned previously, we very proactively recognize co-reviewers via pub lawns So for folks that are participating as a helper in the review process We also are holding fems webinars that early career scientists are very encouraged to participate in either as a presenter So presenting the research that you're publishing in our journal or as a audience member In discussions for other people's work And finally fems microbes Is supported by social in social media by fems micro And so if you're interested in the social media aspect of sharing your research You can volunteer to become a journal social media editor You can just drop us a line or a tweet and get involved that way And so finally if you have any more questions or you'd like to know more about the journal Please check us out at these websites. You can get your questions answered And this will tell you more about how to get connected with fems microbes And thank you for listening. We're very happy to answer any questions