New video interviews have recently been added to the BioMed Central website and offer the opportunity to watch and listen to pioneering researchers share their views on open access publishing and their experience of publishing in BioMed Central’s open access journals. You can now view a video interview with Marcel Hommel, the Editor-in-Chief of Malaria… Read more »
BioMed Central will be attending The Source Event – a careers fair for scientists to be held 21 September in London. There are a series of plenary lectures and workshops for delegates. If you are interested in attending this free event sign up here. Due to our growth we constantly have openings for those wishing… Read more »
The Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) has launched the Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine (PRISM) Coalition. According to the PRISM website, the coalition exists “to educate policy makers and the American people about the risks posed by government intervention in scholarly publishing.” Ahead of an upcoming vote… Read more »
SHERPA have just released their skills set and description of the common repository roles needed to develop and manage a successful institutional repository. There’s a handy disclaimer just in case anyone starts to get a little depressed as they try to tick off every point on the list: The document is not designed to describe… Read more »
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has signed up for BioMed Central Membership under which HHMI will centrally fund the article processing charges for all research published by HHMI investigators in BioMed Central journals. The agreement will take effect from September 1st, 2007. HHMI is the 2nd largest biomedical funder in the U.S. and commits more… Read more »
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has become the latest institution to established a fund to support open access publication fees and digital publishing by faculty and academic staff. This fund will be managed by a new Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing (OSCP). The OSCP’s website also includes a wealth of information about open access publishing… Read more »
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 share of submissions to our journals are sent to us on the basis of personal recommendations from colleagues, often previous BioMed Central authors. With this in mind, we have… Read more »
In a recent blog post, computational linguist Mark Liberman bemoans the common practice amongst scientific journals of releasing articles to the press under an embargo which lifts several days before the article is published and made available on the journal website. As Liberman notes, one problem caused by this is that bloggers who did not… Read more »
The scientific and medical library at Yale University recently announced that it would cease its BioMed Central membership. Whilst we are disappointed that the library has taken this decision, we welcome the opportunity to clarify BioMed Central’s approach to sustainable funding for open access publishing. The main concern expressed in the library’s announcement is that… Read more »