The publishing landscape is changing. Traditionally, institutions have paid subscription fees to journals so that their employees can access the latest research. But this system doesn't work for everyone and many publications are moving to an open access model. In this podcast, the Society for Applied Microbiology's Phil Wheat, Deborah Kahn from BioMedCentral, and Jennifer McLennan at eLife discuss what this means for the scientific community.

Micropod Episode 8 - Unpacking the MMR debacle

The Society for Applied Microbiology provide benefits and resources online to raise awareness and knowledge of a diverse range of applied microbiology issues such as climate change and biofuels, food poisoning outbreaks and hospital acquired infection. The Micropod podcast, is an interesting podcast featuring interesting people. Some are microbiologists, some aren't scientists, but they all have one thing in common: everything they talk to us about is relevant to the lives of microbiologists across the globe.