Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy is now accepting research submissions for consideration in a special series on traumatic brain injury, planned for publication in spring 2013. Submit your paper to this series and receive a 50% article processing charge discount – simply quote ‘alzrt-TBI-50’ at submission. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive degenerative disease of… Read more »
BMC Medicine kicked off their Open Access Week activities with the publication of a research article looking at the changing landscape of open access scientific publishing over the last decade, which, to quote Stephen Curry in his coverage of the article appearing in the Guardian, suggests that the “academic publishing game has changed irrevocably”. To… Read more »
N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) is a highly mutagenic chemical used in the laboratory for inducing changes in DNA and allowing study of the impact of that change. A team of researchers from the Department of Genetics at The Scripps Research Institute and Southwestern Medical Center’s Center for Genetics of Host Defense, have published a data note in… Read more »
Open Access Week is upon us and BioMed Central is proud to sponsor this international endeavor to raise awareness of both the existence and the benefits of open access. Now in its sixth year, OA Week encourages participation from the entire academic and research community and ultimately aims to make open access a global norm…. Read more »
My favourite time of the year is fast-approaching… The annual Open Access Africa event will be held at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, 4-5 November. Researchers, librarians, journal editors, research funders and other decision-makers will share ideas on how open access publishing can support science and medicine in Africa. Such a gathering of… Read more »
BioMed Central now supports access from mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets. BioMed Central portals and journal websites have been updated so that users on smartphones or tablets have an enhanced experience when viewing full text articles, making better use of small screen sizes and touch-screen functionality. Improving the experience when reading fulltext articles… Read more »
“What do publishers do, and is their role understood by the science community?” was one of the key questions to arise at this week’s meeting of the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) in Frankfurt, and one which generated much discussion. Like scientists, the majority of the people working in science publishing… Read more »
The BMC series biology journals have joined BMC Research Notes in encouraging all authors of original research-based articles to publish supporting data permanently online and include an ‘Availability of supporting data’ section in their articles. This includes journals such as BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Systems Biology, BMC Ecology and BMC Genomics. Different journals and publishers have… Read more »