BMC’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic – we’re here for you
We are living through unprecedented times. As a publisher whose portfolio covers most biomedical and health disciplines, many of our researchers may be on the front… Read more »
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Transparency, Openness and Peer Review
When BMC was founded 20 years ago, a lot was different. The open access (OA) movement was still in its infancy, the digital movement towards both the production of… Read more »
Open peer-review: time for a closer look
We have all experienced unfair or sometimes even hostile peer reviews. Papers which later proved to be a turning point in research have been rejected based on bad or… Read more »
More Research in progress blog posts
Never before has it been more exciting and important to be a neurologist
Neurological Research and Practice, the official journal of the German Neurological Society, launched its submission system about… Read more »
Micro Reports – One year on
A year after the launch of Molecular Brain's new Micro Report article type, we look back on the most popular publications so far.
Gut Pathogens celebrates its 10th anniversary
The open access journal Gut Pathogens launched in 2009 and its growth has followed the fast-paced developments of the field in the… Read more »
Mycology research on the front line of environmental and health challenges
Mycology crucially contributes to the understanding of the raising threat that fungi present for humans, plants and animals, as… Read more »
Enriching the neuroscience data commons: An interview with the Editors-in-Chief of NeuroCommons
We talk to Satrajit Ghosh and Maryann Martone to learn more about the launch of their new neuroscience journal.
The greatest scientists are artists too
Albert Einstein believed that there is a lot in common between art and science. But since the Renaissance, when polymaths captured… Read more »
Power to the people…
… was the rallying cry of Tooting’s Citizen Smith (apologies to younger readers! It was a sitcom from back in the day) and so… Read more »