Every year the British Association for the Advancement of Science holds the Festival of Science, one of Europe’s biggest science festivals. This year BioMed Central is taking part in the event, to be held at the University of Liverpool (UK) next month. As BioMed Central takes an active interest in how scientific research is made… Read more »
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 American Chemical Society meeting in Philadelphia this week, that Chemistry Central Journal has been accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters. The journal will be included in the… Read more »
We recently heard that the American Psychological Association has accepted the following BioMed Central journals for inclusion in its abstracting database PsycINFO: Annals of General Psychiatry Behavioral and Brain Functions BioPsychoSocial Medicine BMC Psychiatry Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health International Journal of Mental Health Systems Philosophy,… Read more »
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 biomedical literature that is immediately freely accessible in full text form, for a given subject area. Now seems as good a time as any to revisit this metric, to get a sense of… Read more »