Discover Viruses is a fully open access, peer-reviewed journal that supports multidisciplinary research and policy developments across all fields relevant to virology, including human and other animal, plant, invertebrate, bacterial, archaeal, and fungal viruses. The journal aims to be a resource for researchers, policy makers and the general public for recent advances in virology, and its uses in research development and society. As a fully open access journal, we ensure that our research is highly discoverable and instantly available globally to everyone. The journal particularly welcomes work that aims to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, especially Good Health and Well-Being; Clean Water and Sanitation; Life Below Water; and Life on Land. Topics Topics welcomed at Discover Viruses include but are not limited to the following: Antiviral drugs Antiviral therapy Bacteriophages Computational studies of viral infections Diagnostic virology and methodology Impact of viruses on the environment Molecular Virology Origin of viruses Synthetic viruses Use of viruses as gene therapy vectors Vaccines Viral diseases Viral engineering Viral evolution Virus discovery Virus dynamics Virus epidemiology Virus immunology Virus interaction with the host and other organisms Virus structures Virus taxonomy Virus-like agents, viroids, prions Content types Discover Viruses welcomes a variety of article types – please see our submission guidelines for details. The journal also publishes guest-edited Topical Collections of relevance to all aspects of virology. .