Monthly Archives: February 2007

Maximum access at minimum cost

At the EC meeting on scientific publishing in Brussels last week, Nick Fowler, Elsevier’s Director of Strategy, noted that the cost per article download from Science Direct had fallen, and the UK academic community now paid only £2 in subscription revenue per Elsevier article downloaded.   This caught my attention, and prompted me to do a quick… Read more »

Open Access Publishing
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EC conference in Brussels

I’m currently at the  EC conference Access, Dissemination and Preservation in the Digital Age, which is quite an event, with more than 500 delegates. On day one, Robert Aymar from CERN, and Robert Kiley from the Wellcome Trust both talked about how their  organizations are working to ensure full open access to the results published… Read more »

Open Access Publishing
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Not just a new blog, but podcasts too…

Yes, all flavors of modern media are on offer from BioMed Central this week… Check out our updated Open Access Colloquium page for podcasts and downloads of the presentations from the event on February 8th. It was a genuinely thrilling day, with some superb talks. There was an clear sense among the participants that open… Read more »

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BioMed Central's open access colloquium

On Thursday February 8th, BioMed Central is running an Open Access colloquium at the Royal College of Physicians in London, focusing on the theme of “Quality and Quantity”.An exciting program of speakers has been assembled, including Richard Smith (former editior of the British Medical Journal) and Ben Goldacre (NHS doctor and author of The Guardian‘s… Read more »

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BioMed Central bloggers

In addition to the official blogs, several members of the BioMed Central team are active bloggers in their own right. Bioinformaticts will appreciate Matt Hodgkinson’s Journalology, while Chris Leonard’s Egg like a bird’s egg has more of a physical sciences spin. 

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