BioMed Central has recently returned from APHA 2012, the 140th meeting of the American Public Health Association and the oldest and largest gathering of public health professionals in the world. Held in San Francisco, this year’s theme – prevention and wellness across the life span – highlighted the importance of shifting approaches to health towards… Read more »
BioMed Central journals BMC Biology, BMC Ecology, BMC Evolutionary Biology and Frontiers in Zoology now welcome manuscripts that have been reviewed through the community peer-review initiative Peerage of Science. Much has been made recently of the imperfections of the traditional peer-review process as a way to evaluate scientific knowledge. Despite quibbles about process, the current… Read more »
For over a decade, BMC Nephrology has been receiving and publishing an ever increasing number of articles, administered by our in-house editorial team. However, its increasing popularity amongst the nephrology community has not gone unnoticed, and what was once an unassuming journal has now prospered into a successful and important medical research publication…. Read more »
The BMC series is delighted to host a series of companion articles to the publication of the swine genome. The articles are published in a number of BMC series journals and the journal GigaScience are gathered on a cross-journal article series page. The papers cover a broad spectrum of subjects related to the pig genome:… Read more »
Guest blog post by Dr Valéry Ridde, an Associate Editor of BMC Health Services Research. Dr Ridde is an Associate Professor at the University of Montreal with research interests in the evaluation of health services organization. In collaboration with Melanie De Souza, Dr Ridde recently hosted a workshop on skills-building in scientific presentation and scientific… Read more »
There’s now less than 1 month to go to submit your entries to the BMC Ecology Image Competition! More than 50 images have now been submitted from all over the world, so be sure to send in yours before 1st December to be in with a chance of winning. The competition is open to everyone… Read more »
BMC Ophthalmology is delighted to endorse the Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group’s free online peer review course entitled Translating Critical Appraisal of a Manuscript into Meaningful Peer Review. The course has been developed as a resource for health professionals who are serving, or wish to serve as peer reviewers of biomedical literature. Although the course… Read more »