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Librarian news update
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BioMed Central's Institutional Membership
shows rapid growth
In the short time
since our last quarterly librarian news update we have welcomed 60
new members onboard. This proves the tremendous level of support
that exists within the science and library community for our open
access publishing model. Recent new Members include:
NHS England - This is our largest
consortia deal and includes 500 hospitals and 1.2 million staff
Max Planck Society - This includes
81 institutes
CNRS
In addition to
the Members above we are particularly pleased to announce that 18 of the
28 Canadian Association of Research libraries have now become members and
that 6 out of 8 US Ivy League Universities are now onboard.
For a complete list of member institutions visit our
membership pages |
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The pioneers behind
membership acquisitions
A great number of key
decision makers and librarians within institutions have chosen to become
BioMed Central Members. These institutions and individuals are setting a
pioneering example of what can be done to enhance the communication of
science, and we are grateful for their continued support of our philosophy
and publishing program. For this reason we have asked a number of our
Members to submit Membership profiles, below is a comment from one of our
pioneers:
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Frank Norman, Librarian, National
Institute for Medical Research, London UK
"Harold Varmus' E-Biomed proposal in 1999 stimulated a good deal of
creative thinking about how biomedical scholarly communication could
be enhanced. It felt like we were stuck in a rigid orbit where the
centrifugal force of readers wanting free access to research
literature could not overcome the centripetal force of authors wanting
to publish with the well-known biomedical journal brands. BioMed
Central is a bold move to give a sharp jolt to the publishing system
and set the literature free. If they are ultimately successful then we
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To join our pioneering
institutions and decision makers, or to find out more information about
why and how your institution can become a Member please visit our
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Becky Fishman, Membership Director, moves on to new horizons
Becky Fishman has
recently left BioMed Central and her responsibilities have been divided
between the BioMed Central Marketing Team. Please contact the team
members below with any question you may have.
Marketing and
promotions: Victoria Jones, Marketing Manager,
victoria@biomedcentral.com
Customer Services and
technical enquires: Jo Clarke, Customer Services Manager,
institutions@biomedcentral.com
Open Access Days:
Camille Seecharran, Editorial Promotions Manager,
camille@biomedcentral.com
Sales Representative
(Americas): Mark Bevan,
mark.bevan@biomedcentral.com
Sales Representative
(Italy, Germany, Austria): Silvia Serra,
silvia@biomedcentral.com
Sales Representative
(all other regions): Marie Martens,
marie@biomedcentral.com
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How to organise an Open Access Seminar at your institution
BioMed Central is arranging a series of Open Access Seminars to take place
at both member and non-member institutions worldwide. If you think that
your institution would benefit from holding an Open Access Seminar in
2003, please take a look at our
comprehensive guide to hosting one of these, or alternatively
contact us.
You can also take a
look at our current open access
event schedule to see where the next such events will be held.
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Promoting BioMed Central Membership to your research community
Use our
Advocacy Kit
which contains various resources to help spread the word about BioMed
Central and open access publishing in general.
Please take advantage of
this advocacy kit and promote open access publishing and in particular the
advantages of BioMed Central Membership Program to your faculty and
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Catalogue BMC Open Access Journals on your website
With
the heightened interest in Open Access Publishing it's increasingly
important that scientists take forward the Open Access movement. They
can do this by publishing in Open Access journals, reading and
using the content in these journals and citing research papers
in them. To make it simple for your researchers and students to
find BioMed Central's Open Access journals please use our website's
simple
instructions on how to catalogue our journal data.
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Journal of Biology - new issue in print and online
Journal of Biology will soon
publish its third issue with some of the content already available
online. To ensure that your library has a copy of Volume 2 issue
1 please
sign up here
to receive your free print
issue. Ensure that your researchers have easy access by
cataloguing this Open Access journal for exceptional biological
research on your library's website. |
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Conference Attendance
BioMed Central will
be at these forthcoming conferences. Please contact us at
institutions@biomedcentral.com for an appointment or just drop by our
booth if you are also planning to attend any of these events. We look
forward to meeting you!
MLA, San Diego, US
Visit us at Booth Number 415&514 at Medical Library Association
Conference between 3-6th May.
CRICS,
Mexico
Visit us at Booth Number 42 at Congreso Regional de Informacion
en Ciencias de la Salud between 7-9th May.
SLA, New York, US
Visit us at Booth Number 231 at Special Library Association
Conference between 7-12th June.
ALA/CLA, Toronto Canada
Visit us at Booth Number 4908 at American Library Association and
Canadian Library Association between 21-24th June.
EAHIL, Oslo,
Norway
Visit us at the European Association of Health Information Libraries
between 25-28th June.
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Huge uptake in starting new Open Access journals
We have seen great
interest from editorial groups and individual researchers wanting to set
up new Open Access journals with BioMed Central. We now have 37 new
journals set up by independent editorial boards and many more in the
pipeline. See
a list of these new journals and find out more about this program
offered by BioMed Central whereby we offer the means to start a new,
online journal with full-text open access. Editorial control remains in
the researchers' hands, but we provide free publishing and technical
expertise.
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Faculty of 1000
Medicine is the sister publication to the award-winning Faculty of
1000 Biology and will launch in Summer 2004. Our high profile contributors
and the subject coverage and organisation of this new service will
be announced soon. Subscribers can expect similar functionality
and linking to that found on F1000 Biology but it will feature evaluations
of literature from the medical sciences.
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Faculty of 1000 Biology – title and ISSN change
Faculty of 1000
has changed its title to Faculty of 1000 Biology. This is due
to the soon-to-be-launched sister publication
Faculty
of 1000 Medicine and to help users distinguish between
the two services. Faculty of 1000 Biology's new ISSN is :
1740-4118
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