Contributing to open science – a computational biologist’s perspective
The landscape of how we communicate science is changing rapidly. Microbiome prizewinner, Dr Jacqueline Meisel attended the week long FORCE 11… Read more »
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BMC Energy – open for submissions!
On 14th August 2018, the latest BMC Series journal BMC Energy opened for submissions. Editor Dr Harriet Manning discusses the motivation behind this… Read more »
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Highlights of the BMC series: August 2018
• Preventing antibiotic-associated diarrhea using probiotics • Men’s suicidality in Norway • Life history traits in a… Read more »
Wolbachia is ready for prime time!
Here, Krisztian Magori summarizes the most recent updates from the World Mosquito Program on the success of scaled deployment of… Read more »
30 million downloads of open access book chapters
We’re proud to announce that there have now been more than 30 million chapter downloads across our open access (OA) books… Read more »
Springer Nature welcomes Fire Ecology
Springer Nature is pleased to announce the addition of Fire Ecology to the SpringerOpen portfolio. Supported by the Association… Read more »
The ‘SEAHA CDT collection’ in journal Heritage Science
This blog post has been cross-posted with permission from SEAHA-CDT. The original version can be read here. Following multiple… Read more »
Where can we expect the longhorned tick to go (in the US)?
Krisztian Magori shares his preliminary analysis of the potential distribution of the longhorned tick in North America and the… Read more »
Competition and corruption in education: a lethal combination for academic integrity
Higher education is a competitive enterprise at every level – from student admissions processes to university ranking systems… Read more »
An interview with BMC Chemical Engineering Section Editor, Dr. Gongping Liu
Recently, BMC has launched a new research journal dedicated to the field of chemical engineering, BMC Chemical Engineering. The… Read more »