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BioMed Central welcomes the new NIH Public Access policy
BioMed Central welcomes the announcement of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) new public access policy. The NIH calls on all of its grantees to deposit articles resulting from their NIH-funded research in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central as soon as possible, and within 12 months of final publication.
Researchers who choose to publish in any of BioMed Central's Open Access journals, which cover all areas of biology and medicine, are assured that the published version of their paper will be placed in PubMed Central for them, immediately and without any need for additional work from them. Researchers are thus saved the time and effort of going through the deposition process themselves.
This significant benefit is in addition to the rapid and high quality peer review, fast publication and high visibility of BioMed Central's Open Access journals.
Please urge researchers in the life and medical sciences at your institution who are funded by the NIH to fulfil the NIH request and to submit their future manuscripts to one of the 130 Open Access journals published by BioMed Central. BioMed Central's statement is available in full on our website.
New sales contacts
There have been some departures and arrivals in the sales team at BioMed Central over the last few months, we are delighted to introduce the following new members to our team:
For full details of all our sales representatives, please visit our website.
All Irish Universities subscribe to Faculty of 1000 Biology
All of the universities in Ireland have signed a two-year subscription agreement for Faculty of 1000 Biology under the Irish Research electronic Libraries (IReL) initiative. Faculty of 1000 Biology, a revolutionary literature awareness service that systematically highlights the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, will now be available to all staff and students at the universities.
In addition to subscribing to Faculty of 1000 Biology, IReL has subscribed to Genome Biology, the high quality journal for the post-genomic era and signed up for BioMed Central membership. The Membership agreement covers cost of publication in BioMed Central's 130+ Open Access journals for all seven universities in Ireland, whereby all staff and students at Irish universities can publish research articles without directly incurring the usual article processing charge.
For more information, please read our press release.
Feature: Open Repository
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Open Repository, from BioMed Central, offers professional help to institutions in building, launching, maintaining and populating institutional repositories. This unique service offers the perfect solution to organize and preserve publications, allowing institutions to prepare for the next generation of digital scholars, showcase their intellectual output and therefore raise the profile of the institution and increase the impact of their research.
Having launched at the end of 2004, BioMed Central is pleased to announce that the Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM) has become the first institution to take advantage of this exciting new service, and we look forward to welcoming many more interested institutions on board in the coming months.
If you are considering building a repository at your institution why not contact us to discuss how Open Repository can help your organization quickly set up and run an industry-standard DSpace repository with minimal effort and investment in manpower and cost.
You can attend Open Repository presentations at the following conferences:
- 8th April - ACRL workshop, Minneapolis
- 12th April - UKSG, Edinburgh
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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!
P&HT Division Spring 2005, Las Vegas, USA
Visit us at the Pharmaceutical & Health Technology Division of SLA’s 2005 Spring Meeting in Las Vegas from April 3 -5, where BioMed Central shall be exhibiting.
UKSG, Edinburgh, UK
BioMed Central are exhibiting and also sponsoring the United Kingdom Serials Group’s 28th Annual Conference and Exhibition in Edinburgh from April 11 – 13. You can find us at booth # 21.
MLA, San Antonio, USA
The Medical Library Association’s annual meeting is taking place in San Antonio in June. BioMed Central shall be exhibiting at booth # 242 from June 15 – 17.
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If you require additional assistance with promotion, please do not hesitate to contact our Customer Service team.
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New Ecology Faculty in Faculty of 1000 Biology
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We are pleased to announce that the online literature awareness service Faculty of 1000 Biology has recently launched its new Ecology Faculty.
Faculty Heads Ilkka Hanski (University of Helsinki), Jane Lubchenco (Oregon State University), and Harold Mooney (Stanford University) oversee the new Faculty of over 150 Faculty Members who highlight and evaluate the most important papers published across 11 subject areas that comprise ecology.
For more information on how you can add this great resource to your library’s holding, or to arrange your free trial, please contact Sophie Legrand.
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New Independent Journals
In the last 3 months, we have launched 4 new journals as part of our innovative ‘Independent Journals Program’.
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Help your researchers to make the most of Open Access by cataloguing our journals. There are many more independent journals in development. Please sign up here for e-mail alerts to notify you of newly launched journal title, ISSN, URL and journal scope information.
LinkOut to Faculty of 1000 Biology
If you are one of our many subscribers to Faculty of 1000 Biology you’ll be able to LinkOut this service through PubMed. PubMed’s LinkOut system makes it possible to search PubMed while displaying links to Faculty of 1000 Biology for any article that has been evaluated.
You can permanently turn on F1000 Biology links in PubMed by configuring the LinkOut so that all your users see Faculty of 1000 links when they search PubMed. For full details, and to set this up in your library, see http://www.facultyof1000.com/about/linkout
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