BioMed Central custom button for the Google Toolbar
We’re always looking for ways to make it easier to find open access research from BioMed Central’s journals. That’s why we have created… 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
Open access article on consensus definition of acute renal failure has been accessed more than 100,000 times
The most highly accessed article on BioMed Central’s most viewed articles page recently surpassed 100,000 accesses. Bellomo et al.’s article, published… Read more »
Good news for Google Scholar users
Google Scholar is a great free resource for finding where a published article has been cited. It already identified roughly as many citations, for most… Read more »
Biotechnology for Biofuels is now accepting submissions
We are pleased to announce that Biotechnology for Biofuels is now accepting submissions. Biotechnology for Biofuels is an open access, peer-reviewed online… Read more »
HHMI becomes first major US funder to require open access
In a significant development for the open access movement, the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes (HHMI) this week became the first large research funder in the… Read more »
Guest Blog – MalariaWorld: All about malaria on your doorstep every week
The first guest blog entry for BioMed Central comes from Bart Knols, a malaria reseacher from the Netherlands who has published extensively in BioMed… Read more »
Track the latest open access research relating to your favorite taxon
uBioRSS is a nifty service from the MBLWHOI Library at Woods Hole, which harvests bibliographic information about new articles from publishers’ RSS feeds,… Read more »
Malaria Journal ranked No. 1 for Tropical Medicine in latest impact factor rankings
The 2006 edition of Journal Citation Reports has just been released, with updated impact factors for journal titles tracked by Thomson Scientific. Highlights… Read more »
Retrovirology editorial compares impact factors and H-factors
In a new editorial, the Editor-in-Chief of Retrovirology, Kuan-Teh Jeang, discusses various approaches to citation metrics including author-focused… Read more »
Michael Kidd receives award from Australian Medical Association
Professor Michael Kidd, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Medical Case Reports and Professor of General Practice, University of Sydney, has received the Australian… Read more »