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1Guest blog post by the editors of GigaScience, which is now accepting submissions. This post has also been published on the GigaScience journal blog. As well as the journal website and blog you can also follow @GigaScience on Twitter. As biological data is now produced faster than it can easily be handled and stored, the dissemination of… Read more »
The 2010 edition of Thomson Reuters’ Journal Citation Reports, released on June 28th 2011, provides further evidence that open access journals are delivering not only high visibility but also high rates of citation and impact. Altogether, 101 BioMed Central journals now have official impact factors. 21 journals recorded their first impact factors this year. Meanwhile,… Read more »