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BioMed Central launches Supporters Membership
BioMed Central is pleased to announce the launch of supporters membership, whereby institutions pay a flat rate annual fee and authors from the institution are then given a 15% discount on the Article Processing Charge (APC) when publishing in any of BioMed Central's 140 biology and medicine journals.
This new membership type is particularly suited to institutions that don't have the funds to cover the full APC for their researchers, but still wish to support open access publishing.
With additional benefits including a 15% discount on all of BioMed Central's subscription products, and a customized web page acting as a permanent showcase for research published in our journals, BioMed Central supporters membership offers institutions an affordable way to support both open access and their researchers publishing in BioMed Central's journals.
For more information on supporters membership, along with our other membership options, visit www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/membership or contact your sales representative.
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New online usage reports
We are pleased to announce that we have released new and more user-friendly usage reports both online and via monthly email. If you are an institutional or consortium subscriber or member of BioMed Central you can view your online usage report via the BioMed Central website, visit: http://www.biomedcentral.com/my/subscriptions and log on or register. This new online reporting tool allows you to perform sophisticated searches to report on the statistics you need, download graphs, email reports to yourself and colleagues, produce COUNTER-format reports and easily download printable versions. In addition, if your institution or consortium is a BioMed Central member, you can now view more detailed membership statistics including statistics on "accountable articles" which refers to articles that are chargeable to your membership account and the articles' submitting author is from your organisation's institutions.
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Journal Article Alerts
We have recently launched journal article alerts to allow users to stay up to date with the latest research from our journals. Journals article alerts (also known as etocs) allow you to sign up to receive email notification of newly published articles from a particular journal. This service is now available for all journals published by BioMed Central.
To sign up for a BioMed Central journal article alert, simply visit the relevant journal home page and then click the Sign up for Article Alerts! link on the right-hand navigation bar to go to the sign up page. You can choose how frequently you wish to be alerted to new articles, and in which format you prefer to receive your alert (HTML or plain text).
Journal article alerts complement BioMed Central's other article alerting tools, which include:
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Subject-based article alerts
Visit the 'Update e-mail preferences' section of 'My BioMed Central' to opt to receive a regular email with all the latest research, from journals published by BioMed Central, relevant to your subject areas of interest.
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Stored search alerts
If you have a more focused topic that you would like to stay up to date on (e.g. "stem cells"), you can design a suitable search using BioMed Central's advanced search page, save it as a 'Stored search', and then choose how often you wish to receive email alerts when new articles match your search query.
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RSS feeds
These are another handy way to stay on top of the latest research, using your favorite RSS headline browser. Full instructions are available on our website.
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Our 2005 Catalog is on the way!
The new 2005 BioMed Central Catalog has just been sent out to all of our librarian contacts, with details of our full portfolio of new and established research tools. Should you need any further copies simply let us know at institutions@biomedcentral.com.
Look out for your copy in the post!
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New Renewal Sales Contact
We are pleased to announce that Eleanor Lee has now joined the sales team replacing Rosalind Arrowsmith-Brown. Should you wish to renew your existing subscriptions, please get in touch with Eleanor.
Eleanor Lee
Phone: +44 (0) 207 631 9173
E-mail: eleanor@biomedcentral.com
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Sales Contacts
Canada, Europe, Asia and Australasia
Marianne Josserand
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7631 9990
E-mail: Marianne@biomedcentral.com
Eastern and Southern United States and Italy
Maria Romano
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7631 9971
E-mail: maria.romano@biomedcentral.com
Western and Central United States, Caribbean, Germany and Austria
Dominic Tate
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7631 9947
E-mail: dominic.tate@biomedcentral.com
Open Repository Sales Contact
Marie Martens
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7631 9952
E-mail: marie.martens@biomedcentral.com
Renewal Sales Contact
Eleanor Lee
Phone: +44 (0) 207 631 9173
E-mail: eleanor@biomedcentral.com
Don't forget to promote your BioMed Central subscriptions!
Our Resource Center for Librarians continues to supply librarians with all the materials they need to promote their BioMed Central membership and our complete range of subscription products. From posters and flyers to logos and email text, materials to publicise and promote your BioMed Central trial or subscription can be downloaded from each product page.
If you require additional assistance with promotion, please do not hesitate to contact our Customer Service team.
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Journals move to online-only
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From January 2006 Breast Cancer Research, Critical Care and Genome Biology will no longer be produced in print and will become online-only journals.
This decision was made due to increasing popularity in the online version of the journal and the numerous benefits that online publishing can offer - continuous publication and no restrictions on space to name but a few! The journals will continue to produce the high quality content they have become known for, all of which is available in easily printable formats.
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BioMed Central on location
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BioMed Central will be exhibiting at the forthcoming conference Online Information in London, UK , from 29 Nov - 1 Dec 2005.
If you are planning on attending, please come by booth 146a and meet your Sales Representatives.
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New Text Updates:
Protein Structure and Function
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Protein Structure and Function by Petsko and Ringe is now updated online with four new sections on Enzyme Kinetics. Updates are available exclusively to online subscribers, and this year comprise:
- Enzyme Kinetics: General Principles
- Fundamental Kinetic Properties of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions
- Analysis of Enzyme Reaction Rate Data
- Enzyme Regulation: Kinetic Consequences
There are also expanded and updated references for the whole text.
Protein Structure and Function is an introduction for postgenomic biologists and undergraduates to the structural basis for the biological activities of proteins. This textbook from the Primers in Biology series, published online by New Science Press, is organised into highly illustrated two-page sections for ease of use for students and for reference. Online updates are released each year.
To find out more about the Primers in Biology series, or to subscribe to Protein Structure and Function visit our website or contact your sales representative.
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