BioMed Central launches BMC Medicine and BMC Biology
BioMed Central launched a new pair of Open Access journals – BMC
Medicine and BMC
Biology – on 1 December 2003. The journals complement the
57 established specialist titles in the BMC journal series by providing
a selective home for articles of broad interest within a large field or
across fields.
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BMC
Biology publishes original research articles and methodology
articles in any area of biology but with a focus on the biomedical
sciences. |
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BMC
Medicine publishes original research articles, technical
advances and study protocols in any area of medical science or clinical
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Peter Newmark, BioMed Central’s Editorial Director said: “BMC
Medicine and BMC Biology will fill the gap between the highly
selective Journal of Biology and the existing BMC titles. The
journals have been started in direct response to considerable demand from
authors for more selective and broader interest Open Access journals.”
BMC Biology and BMC Medicine have already published
their first articles. Please include them in your journal
catalogs and encourage your users to make the most of these new Open
Access resources.
Focus on Images.MD
The online encyclopedia of medical images Images.MD
is the first site of its kind and is fast becoming an indispensable resource
to the medical profession. Comprising 50 000 high quality images from
more than 90 collections, Images.MD spans all of clinical medicine and
each image is accompanied by detailed and informative text written by
over 2,000 contributing
experts.
Images.MD has everything needed to enhance and transform lectures and
presentations, subscribers are provided with unlimited use of the images,
plus the tools and online workspace to help use them effectively.
Features of Images.MD
- Create your own image library.
- Add or delete text, rename the image, or add personal notes.
- Create your own PowerPoint® presentation or have us do it and
email it to your computer.
- Order a CD-ROM of slide sets that you create.
- Browse the image database by Specialty or Collection e.g. Fungal
Infections, AIDS, Diabetes.
- Search by Image Type e.g. table, diagram or photograph.
If you are interested in trialing Images.MD at your institution, please
contact your Sales representative who will be able
to give you a price quote and set up a FREE
30-day trial for you and your library users. If you subscribe before
30th May you can benefit from a 10% discount on an Images.MD annual subscription.
New pricing for all 2005 membership
renewals:
We are implementing changes to our pricing model for BioMed Central
Institutional Membership. These will commence from January 2005 for all
members renewing their membership. All institutions joining BioMed Central
for the first time will, for the first year of membership, continue to
be charged a flat-fee based on the total number of graduate and postgraduate
students and faculty members in the life sciences and medicine.
The new pricing is worked out as the base article processing charge of
US$525* multiplied by the number of articles published in BioMed Central
journals during the previous 12 months. Please note that this is the number
of articles published by a submitting author affiliated to the member
institution. BioMed Central only charges once per article, irrespective
of the number of authors, to the (institute of the) submitting author
(if authored by several authors from different institutes, to the institute
of the submitting author only).
The membership threshold renewal price is three times the base article
processing charge of US$525 i.e. US$1575. This fee will apply to anyone
who publishes 3 papers or less during the previous 12 months and wishes
to renew.
Example:-
At University of Anywhere, 10 articles were submitted to BioMed Central's
journals, and 5 of them accepted and published during the last 12 months
of their membership.
Price Quotation for Membership Fee for next 12 months:
US$525 X 5 = US$2625
*the base article processing charge of US$525 is subject to currency
fluctuations and may change.
Promoting Open
Access Publishing at your institution
We believe it is incredibly important that our members get the
most from their membership and publish an optimal number of papers in
our Open Access journals therefore we have created an advocacy website.
On the advocacy
pages you will find some new
posters that can be used to promote Open Access. Why not print these
out and place them around your library and the medical and biology faculties
to encourage your colleagues to submit their papers to BioMed Central?
Institutional membership reports
NEW
BioMed Central Member administrators can now view statistics
for the article submissions and article publications by date online, simply
go to www.biomedcentral.com
and log in or register, then click on the “My BioMed Central”
link and select “My Subscriptions”. Finally, click on the
“article submissions and article publications by date” link.
Members are also sent automatic monthly email alerts of the number of
article submissions and article publications in BioMed Central’s
Open Access journals.
If you have any questions about these new reports please contact institutions@biomedcentral.com
Conference Attendance
BioMed Central will be attending the following conferences over
the coming months. Please contact us at institutions@biomedcentral.com
for an appointment or just drop by our booth if you are planning to attend
any of these events. We look forward to meeting you!
UKSG Annual Conference, Manchester UK
We’ll be at the United Kingdom Serials Group meeting in Manchester
from the 29th-31st March, visit us at Booth Number 18.
MLA 2004, Washington US
Visit us at Booth Number 405 at the Medical Library Association's Annual
Meeting from the 21st-26th May.
EAHIL 2004, Santander, Spain
Visit us at Booth Number 29 at the 9th European Association for Health
Information and Libraries meeting in Santander from the 20th–25th
September.
Sign up
for new journal launch alerts
BioMed Central has launched over 40 new open access journals in the last
2 years (full
list here) and we have many more on the horizon. Please sign
up here for e-mail alerts to notify you of newly launched journal
title, ISSN, URL and journal scope information.
Recently we have launched a new journal:
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
To catalogue BioMed Central’s open access journals on your own
website please click
here. As well as the existing comma-delimited format, the BioMed Central
library catalogue data is now available in MARC format. This will enable
easier imports into library systems.
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