New unofficial Impact Factors for many BioMed Central journals
The 2007 edition of the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports, due to be released this week, will include the first official Impact Factors for no fewer than… 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
Growing support for central open access publication funds
BioMed Central has long argued that institutions can most effectively encourage their researchers to embrace open access publication by setting up central open… Read more »
Guest blog: Harnessing science to foster sustainable improvements in the developing world
This guest blog entry from Evelyn Strauss describes Scientists without Borders, a new initiative from the New York Academy of Sciences. Google’s power is… Read more »
NIH Public Access Policy becomes mandatory from April 7th
With effect from April 7th 2008, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy requires all peer-reviewed articles resulting from research… Read more »
Issues in Science and Technology special issue focuses on the developing world
The Winter 2008 issue of the US National Academy of Science’s publication Issues in Science and Technology focuses on the developing world, and includes… Read more »
Guest Blog – EquityEdit: Expanding Access to Biomedical Innovations
This guest blog entry is from Duncan Smith-Rohrberg Maru, an MD/PhD student at the Yale University School ofMedicine. Duncan describes the recently launched… Read more »
Winners of the 2007 BioMed Central Research Awards
The winners of the 2007 BioMed Central Research Awards were announced yesterday. Shortlisted authors, who travelled from as far afield as Germany, Italy and the… Read more »
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes to adopt mandatory open access policy
As discussed in the New York Times and the Harvard Crimson, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences has just considered, and approved, the adoption of a… Read more »
Improved support for additional material files – "mini-websites"
With the upcoming launch of BMC Research Notes (which will have a strong data focus) BioMed Central’s development team has been hard at work improving the… Read more »
UK PubMed Central announces workshop and online survey to shape future development plans
Researchers, librarians and research administrators working in the UK may be interested in the following update from UK PubMed Central: 1. UKPMC Workshop We are… Read more »