Berlin 5 and Developing Countries – what's new for developing countries?
In the latest of BioMed Central’s occasional series of guest blog items, Barbara Kirsop of the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development reports from… 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
Webcite links provide access to archived copy of linked web pages
Anyone who has tried to follow web links in an scientific article published several years ago will be familiar with the problem. You click a link, only to get a… Read more »
Enhanced MathML support for BioMed Central articles
With the impending publication of PhysMath Central‘s first particle physics and cosmology papers, we have been busy working to ensure that systems are in… Read more »
New look for BioMed Central journal articles
BioMed Central’s article web pages have been redesigned with a cleaner, easy-to-navigate new look which adds significant new functionality (example… Read more »
UW-Madison libraries provide seed money for open access publishing
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has become the latest institution to established a fund to support open access publication fees and digital publishing by… Read more »
Improved BioMed Central open access advocacy pages
BioMed Central’s authors, editors and readers have done a great job of spreading the word about open access. We know from author surveys that a large… Read more »
Press coverage of research, embargoes and open access
In a recent blog post, computational linguist Mark Liberman bemoans the common practice amongst scientific journals of releasing articles to the press… Read more »
Yale and open access publishing – a response from BioMed Central
The scientific and medical library at Yale University recently announced that it would cease its BioMed Central membership. Whilst we are disappointed that the… Read more »
BioMed Central at ISMB/ECCB in Vienna
Last week saw the biggest bioinformatics event of the year, with the joint Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/European Conference on Computational… Read more »
How open access is your research area?
Using PubMed’s "Limits" tab, it is easy to filter searches by date of publication, and also by whether an article has a link to an online full text,… Read more »