How to publish raw clinical data: guidelines from Trials and the BMJ
An increasing number of peer-reviewed journals and research funding agencies require authors to make available the raw, unprocessed data supporting the findings… Read more »
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- Connecting up post-publication commentary via integration with PubMed Commons - 29th November 2013
- It just got easier to find open access research for textmining/redistribution - 7th March 2012
- OSTP publishes public comments in response to RFIs on public access to publications and data - 3rd February 2012
BioMed Central’s comments in response to the US Office of Science and Technology Policy request for contributions to its Policy Forum on Public Access to Federally Funded Research
BioMed Central has today submitted the following contribution to the US Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Policy Forum on Public Access to… Read more »
National advocacy portals help spread the word about Open Access
The recently announced Open Access for Hong Kong portal, created by the Hong Kong Open Access Committee, is the latest in a series of such national OA advocacy… Read more »
Three more BioMed Central journals indexed by Thomson Reuters
BMC Medical Ethics, Journal of Inflammation and Pediatric Rheumatology have all recently been accepted for indexing by Thomson Reuters and are on course to… Read more »
Free Open Access Week webinar – 5 Open Access publishers in the spotlight for live Q&A session
There is still time to register for the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association’s free Open Access Week Webinar, which is taking place at 5pm UK… Read more »
Updated release of Thomson Journal Citation Reports includes missing Impact Factors
Thomson have released an update to the online version of their Journal Citation Reports. This release includes official Impact Factors for BMC Systems Biology,… Read more »
SPARC profiles open access funds at Berkeley and Calgary
In a further indication of the increasing interest in central funding of open access publications fees, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources… Read more »
Five US universities to provide central funding for open access publication fees
In a major step forward for the open access movement, on September 15th 2009, Berkeley, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of… Read more »
15% discount for NHS England authors publishing in BioMed Central’s open access journals
This month, NHS England became a Supporter Member of BioMed Central. This means that all researchers, practitioners and students working within the NHS in… Read more »
BioMed Central and Twitter
Recently we have noticed more and more researchers using Twitter as an informal channel to share thoughts on the latest open access research published in our… Read more »