Monthly Archives: June 2010

Visit BioMed Central at ISMB 2010

BioMed Central will be exhibiting at the upcoming 18th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) in Boston, July 10-13. Come by booth 7 and learn about the new developments from our journals and check out the exciting giveaways we have. We are situated next door to our colleagues from Springer in… Read more »

Biology

Elucidating genetic susceptibility to lupus – credit where credit’s due

“We have way more data than we can possibly analyse”, said Arthritis Research & Therapy Editorial Board member Prof Edward Wakeland, in concluding his keynote address to the 9th International Congress on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Vancouver. The Wakeland Laboratory are generating data that should help elucidate the genetic basis for human susceptibility to lupus…. Read more »

Publishing

Welcoming SpringerOpen – a new series of open access journals

Springer Science+Business Media, BioMed Central’s parent company and one of the world’s largest Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) publishers, today announced a significant expansion of its open access publishing activity with the launch of SpringerOpen (www.springeropen.com), a new series of open access journals that will span all STM disciplines. Articles published in SpringerOpen journals will be… Read more »

Open Access Publishing
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BioMed Central launches two new gateways

BioMed Central has recently launched two new gateways in the fields of Endocrinology and Gastroenterology, providing a useful resource to researchers in these disciplines where up-to-the minute information including relevant research, recent news and research highlights can easily be accessed. Each gateway features an item about a renowned author in the field who has chosen… Read more »

Publishing
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Planning financing for open access

Last week, Universities UK and JISC held a conference to educate senior university managers about the importance of open access to institutions, how to develop policies and plan financing. A report presented at the conference demonstrates that a single large university could contribute around £3 million each year to the UK research community as a whole… Read more »

Open Access Publishing