In a further indication of the increasing interest in central funding of open access publications fees, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition has published a profile of open access funds at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Calgary. BioMed Central’s journal Breast Cancer Research features prominently in the profile: Dr…. Read more »
With the launch this week of Journal of Angiogenesis Research, the number of journals in BioMed Central’s portfolio reaches 200. This major milestone reflects a growing trend as senior academics and learned societies turn to open access to publish their new journals or to improve the reach and visibility of their existing journals. The success… Read more »
AGRICOLA, an indexing service from the United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library, has recently accepted the following BioMed Central journals for inclusion: Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BMC Ecology BMC Plant Biology Carbon Balance and Management Nutrition Journal Nutrition & Metabolism Plant Methods Content from these journals will appear in AGRICOLA from the start of… Read more »
In a major step forward for the open access movement, on September 15th 2009, Berkeley, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a joint commitment to provide their researchers with central financial assistance to cover open access publication fees, and encouraged other academic institutions to join them. The aim of the Compact… Read more »
As part of our 4th Annual Research Awards, we have added some new awards. In 2010, Genome Biology will celebrate its tenth birthday, to mark the occasion we will be presenting the ‘Genome Biology Award – Celebrating 10 years of excellence‘. The award will recognise any ground-breaking article, methodology or software published in Genome Biology… Read more »
Evidence of publication bias favouring positive results, both in which studies are reported in journals and in how they are treated by peer reviewers, has emerged at the 6th Peer Review Congress in Vancouver. Seth Leopold described how in his group’s study 2 variations of a fabricated, CONSORT-conforming randomized controlled trial (RCT) were sent to 209 peer reviewers… Read more »
PsycINFO, the abstracting database published by the American Psychological Association, has recently extended its coverage of BioMed Central journals to include BMC Neurology and International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity. Both journals are also included in a wide range of other indexing services including Thomson Reuters; BMC Neurology with a current impact factor… Read more »