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Princeton Univ. authors get discount when publishing in BioMed Central

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“ Bio­Med Cen­tral unveils newly redesigned web­site — 02 Dec 2011

Open access pub­lisher Bio­Med Cen­tral, UK, has announced the launch of its newly redesigned web­site (www.biomedcentral.com). Bio­Med Cen­tral, which cur­rently pub­lishes over 220 open access jour­nals, has intro­duced a stream­lined design and new look which makes the high-traffic web­site much more straight­for­ward to nav­i­gate. The redesigned site also intro­duces a range of new and enhanced features.

Empha­sis­ing the company’s com­mit­ment to meet­ing the evolv­ing needs of authors and read­ers, the new site includes a greatly improved ‘My Bio­Med Cen­tral’ sec­tion offer­ing users con­ve­nient access to the lat­est research in their sub­ject areas together with sta­tus updates on man­u­scripts which they are sub­mit­ting or review­ing. Other fea­tures include enhanced nav­i­ga­tion for archives, sup­ple­ments and spe­cial arti­cle col­lec­tions; addi­tional RSS feeds and embed­ded social link­ing tech­nolo­gies; and improved sub­ject gate­ways, pro­vid­ing a cen­tral start­ing point to find research on par­tic­u­lar sci­en­tific topics.

Sis­ter web­site Chem­istry Cen­tral will also ben­e­fit from the new look and sig­nif­i­cantly increased functionality.

In addi­tion to the new appear­ance, the site is built using mod­ern open-source java tech­nolo­gies, which pro­vide a firm foun­da­tion for the enhance­ments and new ser­vices still in development.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newsletter

BMC Biology + Journal of Biology = BMC Biology

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“BMC Biol­ogy and Jour­nal of Biol­ogy are join­ing forces as a sin­gle jour­nal com­mit­ted to the pub­li­ca­tion of high-quality com­mis­sioned con­tent and research arti­cles of exceptional
impor­tance. The com­bined jour­nal will oper­ate under the name BMC Biol­ogy, reflect­ing the strong rela­tion­ship with the subject-specific BMC–series jour­nals, and will be edited by Miranda Robert­son, who explains in an inau­gural edi­to­r­ial how she sees the fusion com­bin­ing the strengths of both jour­nals, with con­tin­u­a­tion of the re-review opt-out exper­i­ment ini­ti­ated by Jour­nal of Biol­ogy.”

Read more at the Bio­Med Cen­tral Blog.

Source: Info@Biomedcentral.com

Chemistry Central — new open access, peer-reviewed service

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Chem­istry Cen­tral is a new ser­vice pub­lish­ing peer-reviewed open access research in chem­istry, from Bio­Med Cen­tral — the lead­ing bio­med­ical open access pub­lisher. This site fea­tures chemistry-related arti­cles pub­lished in Chem­istry Cen­tral Jour­nal, Bio­Med Cen­tral jour­nals and inde­pen­dent jour­nals uti­liz­ing Bio­Med Central’s open access pub­lish­ing ser­vices. All orig­i­nal research arti­cles pub­lished by, or in coop­er­a­tion with, Chem­istry Cen­tral are made freely and per­ma­nently acces­si­ble online imme­di­ately upon publication.

Jump to: lat­est pub­lished articles

Source:  Bio­Med Cen­tral Update 11 March, 2009

BioData Mining — New Open Access Journal by BioMed Central

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“Open access pub­lisher Bio­Med Cen­tral, US, has announced the launch of a new open access jour­nal — Bio­Data Min­ing. Dr Jesus Aguilar-Ruiz of the Pablo De Ola­vide Uni­ver­sity and Dr Jason H. Moore of the Dart­mouth Med­ical School will serve as Editors-in-Chief of the jour­nal. They will be sup­ported by an expert Edi­to­r­ial Board.

Bio­Data Min­ing pub­lishes orig­i­nal arti­cles on all aspects of data min­ing applied to high-dimensional bio­log­i­cal and bio­med­ical data, focus­ing on com­pu­ta­tional aspects of knowl­edge dis­cov­ery from large-scale genetic, tran­scrip­tomic, genomic, pro­teomic, and metabolomic data. As well as being open access, the jour­nal also oper­ates an open peer review process, which the edi­tors hope will fos­ter con­struc­tive reviews and there­fore enrich the criticism.

All Bio­Data Min­ing arti­cles are archived in PubMed Cen­tral, the US National Library of Medicine’s full-text repos­i­tory of life sci­ence lit­er­a­ture, and also in repos­i­to­ries at the Uni­ver­sity of Pots­dam in Ger­many, at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Nether­lands’ dig­i­tal archive of all elec­tronic pub­li­ca­tions. The jour­nal is also par­tic­i­pat­ing in the British Library’s e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all arti­cles with the British Library.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter (7/22/08)

Biotechnology for Biofuels — new OA journal

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Bio­Med Cen­tral launches new OA jour­nal — Biotech­nol­ogy for Bio­fu­els — 05 May 2008

“Open access pub­lisher Bio­Med Cen­tral, US, has announced the launch of a new, open-access jour­nal — Biotech­nol­ogy for Bio­fu­els. Michael Him­mel, Bär­bel Hahn-Hägerdal, Chris Somerville, and Charles Wyman will serve as Editors-in-Chief of the jour­nal. They will be sup­ported by an inter­na­tional edi­to­r­ial board.

Biotech­nol­ogy for Bio­fu­els empha­sises under­stand­ing and advanc­ing the appli­ca­tion of biotech­nol­ogy and syn­er­gis­tic oper­a­tions to improve plants and bio­log­i­cal con­ver­sion sys­tems for the pro­duc­tion of fuels from lig­no­cel­lu­losic bio­mass and any related eco­nomic, envi­ron­men­tal and pol­icy issues. The jour­nal fea­tures the lat­est cutting-edge research in the field, reviews and com­men­tary arti­cles from both Acad­e­mia and Indus­try. Also, it will run a blog, ded­i­cated to all aspects of the bio­fu­els world.

Bio­Med Cen­tral will offi­cially launch the jour­nal at the forth­com­ing 30th sym­po­sium of Biotech­nol­ogy for Fuels and Chem­i­cals, in New Orleans.”
 

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, May 5, 2008 

Journals added to PubMed

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The NLM Tech­ni­cal Bul­letin dated March-April, 2008,  announces index­ing cov­er­age  for, and inclu­sion of 7 new jour­nals, the most sig­nif­i­cant of which might beThe Jour­nal of Cell Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Sig­nal­ing and BMC Med­ical Physics.

NLM Tech­ni­cal Bul­letin, Mar-Apr 2008, PubMed Cen­tral: New Jour­nals Par­tic­i­pat­ing and New Con­tent Added:   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma08/ma08_pmc.html