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In the News (Mon 28 May 12)

  
  BioMed Central Strengthens Research Library Connections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
BioMed Central was founded on that commitment, and it is important to support its efforts, which have a potentially revolutionary positive impact on scholarly communication,” said Rick Johnson, SPARC enterprise director.
BioMed Central is one of the largest such experiments in open access.
BioMed Central operates its open access publishing model through an institutional membership program, which it launched at the beginning of this year.
www.infotoday.com /newsbreaks/nb020520-2.htm   (764 words)

  
 BioMed Central Launches 12 New Author-Initiated Research E-Journals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
BioMed Central already publishes over 60 journals in biology and medicine that are developed by its own editors and peer-review advisors.
BioMed Central journals are archived in several ways: on the company’s own servers, on PubMed Central’s servers, through CD-ROM collections developed by national libraries, through the Scirus archive, etc. BioMed Central also offers annual print compilations for a fee.
In content terms, BioMed Central accepts material similar to that received by traditional journals in the field, but it also welcomes articles and data that traditional journals may not due to space constraints or editorial judgment about reader interest.
www.infotoday.com /newsbreaks/nb010903-1.htm   (995 words)

  
 BioMed Central to consult funders and librarians over Open Access payment model   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
BioMed Central, the Open Access publisher, announced today that it is to consult with librarians and funding bodies about future mechanisms for funding Open Access publishing.
BioMed Central (http://www.biomedcentral.com) is an independent online publishing house committed to providing immediate access without charge to the peer-reviewed biological and medical research it publishes.
BioMed Central's Institutional Membership Program was launched in January 2002 and now has well over 400 members, including some of the world's most prestigious academic institutions.
www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=11638&nfid=rssfeeds   (518 words)

  
 BioMed Central - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BioMed Central (BMC) is a UK-based scientific publisher specializing in open access publication.
Whilst all research published by BioMed Central is open access, the publisher also offers subscription-only services such as Faculty of 1000 (a current awareness service highlighting the most interesting biological research) and Images.MD (a medical image database).
BioMed Central: An Alternative to Scholarly Publishing (CARL/ABRC Backgrounder Series No. 4).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BioMed_Central   (287 words)

  
 HUM-MOLGEN: National Library of the Netherlands and BioMed Central agree to open access archive
All of the research BioMed Central deposits will be freely available, in keeping with the publisher's open access policy, both to walk-in visitors to the KB and via the library's website (www.kb.nl).
Should the BioMed Central website be inoperable for a long period of time, for example in the case of a disaster, the KB would be part of the interim service system.
In the unlikely event that BioMed Central or a successor should be forced by circumstance to cease to make these journals available, as an official archive the KB would continue to keep them accessible to all indefinitely, maintaining the open access promise.
hum-molgen.org /NewsGen/09-2003/msg28.html   (451 words)

  
 MIMCom Malaria Research Resources - BioMed Central Announces New Partnership with the Scholarly Publishing and Academic ...
In return, BioMed Central has confirmed that its commitment to open access precludes it from selling its assets to any publisher that does not share its promise to keep all BioMed Central journals available through open access both retrospectively and prospectively.
BioMed Central was founded on that commitment, and it is important to support its efforts, which have a potentially revolutionary positive impact on scholarly communication," explains Rick Johnson, SPARC Enterprise Director.
BioMed Central (http://www.biomedcentral.com) is an independent online publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to the peer-reviewed biological and medical research it publishes.
www.nlm.nih.gov /mimcom/news/biomed_central_03.html   (575 words)

  
 BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an independent online publishing house committed to providing immediate access without charge to the peer-reviewed biological and medical research it publishes.
BioMed Central's business model is based on charging authors to publish, and then making the content available with no barriers to access to anyone with an internet connection.
BioMed Central institutional membership means that universities and organizations can make a one-off, yearly payment on behalf of all of their potential authors.
library.louisville.edu /kornhauser/news/biomed.html   (586 words)

  
 Press Release: JISC renews BioMed Central membership for UK Universities
BioMed Central, the Open Access Publisher, and JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) are pleased to announce that they have renewed their agreement which gives all UK universities membership of BioMed Central until September 2005.
Their renewal of the agreement this year shows that they are happy with the service provided by BioMed Central, and that their decision has been justified by the uptake in the academic community.
BioMed Central's Institutional Membership Program was launched in January 2002 and now has over 450 members, including some of the world's most prestigious academic institutions.
www.jisc.ac.uk /index.cfm?name=biomed_pr_210904   (871 words)

  
 JEFFLINE Forum - November 2001: BioMed Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house that provides immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
BioMed Central is an alternative publishing model that Jefferson supports.
BioMed Central is a new publishing model and with this new model come caveats.
jeffline.tju.edu /Education/forum/01/11/articles/bio.html   (346 words)

  
 NeLH: News Item - National Core Content - Biomed Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
BioMed Central's Institutional Membership Program was launched in January 2002 and now has well over 100 members, including some of the world's most prestigious academic institutions.
BioMed Central's Membership Program enables institutions to ensure the widest possible distribution of their peer-reviewed research articles.
BioMed Central is an independent online publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to the peer-reviewed biological and medical research it publishes.
www.nelh.nhs.uk /news_biomed.asp   (692 words)

  
 Drexel Library Databases: BioMed Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
All the original research articles in journals published by BioMed Central are immediately and permanently available online without charge or any other barriers to access.
This commitment is based on the view that open access to research is central to rapid and efficient progress in science and that subscription-based access to research is hindering rather than helping scientific communication.
BioMed Central's portfolio of over 100 journals ranges from the highly selective, general interest Journal of Biology, which publishes both online and in print, to a range of specialist online only journals [more information].
www.library.drexel.edu /resources/dbinfo/biomedcentral.html   (233 words)

  
 BioMed Central collection available - July 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The open access policy makes BioMed Central's research article corpus ideally suited for data mining research, since the corpus and derivations of it can be redistributed in full without fear of copyright infringement.
To facilitate the use of the BioMed Central corpus by researchers, it is now being made available for download by ftp as a nightly-updated zip file of XML content.
BioMed Central's open access journals also welcome research articles on the topic of mining the research literature.
www.ccs.neu.edu /home/futrelle/bionlp/bmc/announceJuly2003.html   (239 words)

  
 Fees waived for university researchers publishing through BioMed Central -- Delamothe 326 (7403): 1350 -- BMJ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Unlike traditional journals, BioMed Central charges authors (or their funding agencies) for publishing their articles -- which are then made available at no cost to readers in one of its more than 90 electronic journals.
The deal between BioMed Central and the Joint Information Systems Committee comes just three months after a similar deal was struck between BioMed Central and the NHS in England (15 March, p 568).
The academic reward system is currently based on publication in journals with a high impact factor, and BioMed Central's journals are too new to have impact factors or very high profiles in their research fields.
bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/326/7403/1350-d   (416 words)

  
 Customer Profile: BioMed Central
BioMed Central is a publisher of original, peer-reviewed scientific research that operates more than 90 online journals and several printed publications.
BioMed Central has doubled its revenue each year since 2000 and expects to achieve similar growth rates over the next three years, both by publishing more open-access research and by creating a range of premium services.
BioMed Central has recently upgraded to Oracle9i Release 2 to take advantage of the enhancements for XML, the higher availability that Real Application Clusters (RAC) provides, and to ensure continued high-performance and reliability to support its growing user base.
www.oracle.com /pls/cis/Profiles.print_html?p_profile_id=9085   (831 words)

  
 BioMed Central Update
BioMed Central's open access research is the perfect raw material for data mining research, since it is freely redistributable and consists of highly structured XML.
The aim of these presentations is to inform authors about BioMed Central’s publishing activities and to encourage them to submit their papers to open access journals.
BioMed Central now publishes well over 90 journals across the full range of biology and medicine.
www.ugr.es /~facmed/biblio/diario/bio807.htm   (1294 words)

  
 Ohio University Outlook
As part of the membership, faculty, staff and students are entitled to submit an unlimited number of research papers free of charge to any of the journals published by BioMed Central.
BioMed Central publishes more than 100 peer-reviewed research journals across the spectrum of biology and medicine and in electronic format.
Advantages for publishing with BioMed Central include higher visibility for the research, rapid review and immediate publication, tracking of the number of readers and downloads of any article, retention of copyright and automatic inclusion in the PubMed bibliographic database.
www.ohio.edu /outlook/132n-034.cfm   (366 words)

  
 Could this be the end for injections?
BMC Medicine is published by BioMed Central (http://www.biomedcentral.com), an independent online publishing house committed to providing Open Access to peer-reviewed biological and medical research.
This commitment is based on the view that immediate free access to research and the ability to freely archive and reuse published information is essential to the rapid and efficient communication of science.
BioMed Central currently publishes over 100 journals across biology and medicine.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-04/bc-ctb041404.php   (651 words)

  
 BioMed Central applauds Wellcome's leadership on Open Access   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Publisher BioMed Central today congratulated the Wellcome Trust on its move to require researchers receiving Wellcome funding to deposit copies of resulting research articles in an Open Access archive.
Publishing in any of BioMed Central's 130 Open Access journals will also make life easier for Wellcome-funded researchers: "BioMed Central already deposits a copy of the official final version of every research article that it publishes with the appropriate Open Access archive.
BioMed Central is an independent online publishing house committed to providing open access to peer-reviewed research.
www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=25143&nfid=rssfeeds   (495 words)

  
 Review of BioMed Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Should BioMed Central consider a change in ownership, the Board of Trustees have the responsibility of ensuring that a prospective new owner can guarantee that they will continue a policy of open access for all the research articles.
BioMed Central is a multifaceted Web site aimed at providing Open Access services as well as value-added services to researchers, research institutions and libraries in response to Open Access issues.
However, the extent of content coverage, from BioMed Central’s inception, is limited and cannot approach any viable comparison with MEDLINE and its 11 million citations from the 1960s to the present.
www.charlestonco.com /review.cfm?id=173   (3046 words)

  
 Two new consortia sign up as BioMed Central members
BioMed Central announced today that it has signed institutional membership agreements with two U.S. consortia - the Consortium of Southern BioMedical Libraries (CONBLS) and Maine Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN).
The tally of BioMed Central members now stands at 396, of which almost half (190) are in the U.S. This represents an amazing growth in membership, with over 300 institutions signing up so far in 2003.
North Dakota BRIN was the first to purchase BioMed Central membership in February 2003.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-11/bc-tnc111803.php   (782 words)

  
 BioMed Central Update
BioMed Central already publishes articles that describe new software or databases, but now these will have their own home.
A thorough analysis of the mosquito genes for glutathione transferase reveals an extensive family, with complex regulation, and confirms that the epsilon class of the genes is important in conferring resistance to DDT.
BioMed Central now publishes well over 90 journals across the range of biology and medicine.
www.ugr.es /~facmed/biblio/diario/bio209.htm   (934 words)

  
 BioMed Central | The Open Access Publisher
BioMed Central has this week written an open letter to the UK Science Minister, Lord Sainsbury, responding to inaccurate comments about open access.
The latest content from BioMed Central or any of our journals can appear on your personalized Google homepage, using RSS feeds.
The Wellcome Trust policy on open access to the research it funds came into effect on the 1 October 2005.
www.biomedcentral.com   (471 words)

  
 JEFFLINE: Scott Library Membership in BioMed Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing open access to peer-reviewed biological and medical research.
The cost of participating in BioMed Central is paid by Scott Memorial Library, a division of Academic and Instructional Support and Resources.
BioMed Central was founded on a belief that open access to research is vital to rapid and efficient progress in science, and that subscription-based access to research hinders rather than promotes scientific communication.
jeffline.tju.edu /aisr/altpub/bmc.html   (437 words)

  
 BioMed Central - University Libraries - USC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
BioMed Central searches and publishes an ever growing list of biomedical journals.
BioMed Central is both a searchable bibliographic database and an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.
This commitment is based on the view that open access to research is central to rapid and efficient progress in science and that subscription-based access to research is hindering rather than helping scientific communicatio n.
www.sc.edu /library/desbiomed.html   (120 words)

  
 Mediclicks Nexium Articles Page : BioMed Central
BioMed Central also solicits submissions for its journals, and in a move that is somewhat unusual, allows authors of original research articles to retain copyright ownership of their content.
In all, the intent of BioMed Central is a noble one: making medical and biosciences information available on the Internet for free.
Unfortunately, the BMC journals are perhaps not yet regarded as being at the same level as many prominent peer-reviewed journals, and non-BMC journals may not be entirely free.
www.mediclicks.net /Nexium/articles.asp?i=280   (245 words)

  
 BioMed Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
BioMed Central publishes over 90 online journals, including titles that cover all the medical specialties from Anesthesiology to Urology.
When you submit a research article to a BioMed Central journal, then at the point where you would normally have to pay the Article Processing Charge, you will be prompted to authenticate via Athens.
To stop receiving this type of information from BioMed Central reply to this email with "suppress" in the subject line.
www.qmc.nhs.uk /research/BiomedCentral.htm   (406 words)

  
 ebi-PubMed Central: An NIH-Operated Site for Electronic Distribution of Life Sciences Research Reports)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The first of the two mechanisms that authors would use to enter new scientific reports into the E-biomed database is closely aligned with current practice and retains scientific review as a prerequisite to publication.
If, after review, the report is accepted for publication in either its original or a revised form, the edited version would be posted immediately in E-biomed, and its title and list of authors would appear for a fixed period in the current table of contents for that journal.
But we believe that it is useful at this point to restate the central issues more clearly and offer responses to the most frequent questions and criticisms.
www.nih.gov /about/director/pubmedcentral/ebiomedarch.htm   (6844 words)

  
 HubLog: BioMed Central links
BioMed Central made the full text of all their published articles available for download as XML files, which means that all the sections are marked up and machine-readable, including the author names, titles, PubMed ID numbers and bibliographies.
This is a great resource, previously only partially available through a costly subscription (and gnarly interface) to ISI's Web of Knowledge, and a lead which I hope commercial, paid-access publishers will begin to follow as soon as possible.
Update: I should have added that PubMed and PubMed Central/BioMed Central also have papers linked by citation in a similar way - see for example this article in PubMed, which was cited by all these articles in PubMed Central, which themselves have reference links from the (freely available) fulltext back to PubMed.
hublog.hubmed.org /archives/000411.html   (283 words)

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