BMC Evolutionary Biology a "featured journal" on ScienceWatch
BMC Evolutionary Biology has been selected as this month’s featured journal on the Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch website. As the article notes, in… Read more »
Latest posts by Matthew Cockerill (see all)
- 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
European Commission introduces new pilot open access policy in for FP7 research projects, confirms financial support for OA publication fees
Over the few years, the European Commission has undertaken an ongoing program of investigation into the issue of open access to the results of scientific… Read more »
Bad Science – encouraging the public to think critically about science and health reporting
Ben Goldacre’s much anticipated book, ‘Bad Science’, is published this week. Goldacre is an NHS doctor whose ‘Bad Science’ column… Read more »
Chemistry Central Journal accepted into Web of Science
The growth of open access to research in chemistry has lagged behind other fields, but it just took a significant leap forwards with the news, announced at the… Read more »
How open access is your research area? (revisited)
Just over a year ago, this blog post introduced the concept of the Open Access Quotient, an easy-to-calculate metric for the fraction of the… Read more »
Bioinformaticists compete in BioMed Central Rubik challenge at ISMB in Toronto
Last week’s Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology 2008 conference in Toronto proved once again that bioinformaticists, genomicists and systems… Read more »
Biology Direct and Algorithms for Molecular Biology receive their first official Impact Factors
We have just received confirmation from Thomson Reuters of official 2007 Impact Factors for Biology Direct (3.29) and Algorithms for Molecular Biology (1.63).… Read more »
ICZN takes first step towards bringing zoological species nomenclature into the electronic age
Almost 5 years ago, BioMed Central was alerted by entomologist and open access enthusiast Donat Agosti to the peculiar situation whereby, in order for a… Read more »
Presentations from ARMA/INORMS session: Putting Open Access Publishing into Practice: funding mechanisms, institutional collaboration and building repositories
The presentations from the session: Putting Open Access Publishing into Practice: funding mechanisms, institutional collaboration and building repositories at… Read more »
Official 2007 Impact Factors show excellent performance by BioMed Central journals
The 2007 Journal Citation Report from Thomson Reuters, which has just been released, confirms the excellent performance and growing reputation of BioMed… Read more »