BMC Proceedings (ISSN 1753-6561) is an online journal publishing proceedings from conferences, including both peer-reviewed articles and collections of meeting abstracts. The journal is published by BioMed Central Ltd, Middlesex House, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London W1T 4LB, UK.

Scope

BMC Proceedings is a peer-reviewed open access online journal publishing proceedings from conferences, including both peer-reviewed full articles and collections of meeting abstracts. Devoted specifically to conference publications, BMC Proceedings aims to provide open access journal publication for all types of proceedings, including large collections of articles, meetings of specialised interest and conferences of a cross- or multi-disciplinary nature. Content is not restricted to any particular discipline within biomedicine and all proceedings are published without barriers to access.

Flexibility

As an electronic-only journal, BMC Proceedings gives authors the opportunity to publish large data sets, large numbers of illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other papers).

Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted to the conference/supplement organiser. Any questions regarding submission, please contact supplements@biomedcentral.com.

Indexing and archiving

Following publication in BMC Proceedings, the full text of each article is permanently archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature. BMC Proceedings is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, CAS and Google Scholar.

Copyright

The authors are the copyright holders for all articles in BMC Proceedings and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate the article, according to the BioMed Central copyright and license rules.

Citing papers in the journal

Each set of conference articles or abstracts will be published as a separate supplement to BMC Proceedings. Articles in BMC Proceedings should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal, with one exception: because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

BMC Proceedings 2007, 1(Suppl 1):S2

refers to article 2 from volume 1, supplement 1 of the journal.

As an online journal, BMC Proceedings does not have issue numbers. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

Contacting BMC Proceedings

Queries about content, submissions, or the review process should be directed to supplements@biomedcentral.com. All other enquiries should be directed to info@biomedcentral.com.