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BioMed Central's journal collection has been created to provide optimum usage at a discounted price.
Comprising of Genome Biology, Arthritis Research & Therapy, Breast Cancer Research and Critical Care, each journal has a following of over 20,000 registrants and features international Editorial Boards, impressive Impact Factors and the latest in expert reviews and commentaries within its field.
TRY BEFORE YOU BUY
Why not take out a complimentary 30 day non-obligatory free trial to the journal collection?
We will provide you with promotional material to advertise the trial around your institution and full usage statistics on completion to help you make an informed decision on the success of your trial.
If your library is an existing subscriber to three or less of the journals within the collection, do not worry as you can still trial the journal (s) you do not have and benefit from the discount on offer.
Contact your Sales Representative for more information and to set up your complimentary trial.
News on institutional open access policies
The last few months have been a very exciting time for open access both in Europe and the USA. Recent developments include:
University of Central London (UCL)
UCL had announced plans to implement an open access policy ensuring all its research (subject to copyright) will be made freely available online through their institutional repository.
Dr Paul Ayris, Director of UCL Library Services, made reference to the pressure library budgets are under at the moment and how 'open access helps prospective students make a judgment on which University to choose, shares blue-skies research with the widest possible audience, and supports outreach activity to open up higher education to new communities'. Read the full statement here.
University of Nottingham
University of Nottingham are to open a Centre for Research Communications. This new centre will be based at the university and support a number of open access projects undertaken by the university.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
In March, MIT confirmed plans for an open access policy, which is applicable to all scholarly articles published by its faculty with immediate effect. Visit the MIT website for more details.
Harvard University
Following on from Harvard University's open access policy, the newly established Office for Scholarly Communication have also spoken of plans to actively work on a central fund to cover its researchers open access publication costs.
For more information on how a library goes about setting up a central fund, view our case studies page that now includes the recently added Max Planck Society case study.
Is your institution in the process of adopting an open access policy? Why not share your thoughts and experiences with us?
New Membership Reporting tool
BioMed Central is committed to providing the best possible service to its Member institutes including up-to-date information about the usage of Prepay and Postpay Membership accounts to assist with management and budgetary planning.
We are delighted to announce the launch our new Online Reporting System for all Prepay and Postpay Membership accounts. This easy to use service provides a clear overview of published articles, articles in progress and account balances.
Benefits include:
- Run, export, email and print your own account statements for any time period
- Updated daily to ensure you have the latest information
- Full support for reporting on multi-institution consortium Membership
- Reports include author details, cost per article, discounts and submission dates
- View both published articles and in-progress manuscripts from authors claiming payment using your institutional Membership account
We have created a step-by-step guide to help you and your institution to make the most of the new online reporting system. For further queries please contact membership@biomedcentral.com or call +44 (0)203 192 2106.
Interested in finding out more about our Membership Program?
Contact us if your institution is not part of a Membership Program but you would like to learn more on how your library can help its researchers remove some or all of the financial costs of publishing in our open access journals.
Journal Impact Factors
The latest edition of Thomson Reuters' Journal Citation Reports has just been released with official Impact Factors for a total of 61 BioMed Central Journals.
Highlights include:
- An increased Impact Factor for Malaria Journal. The TROPICAL MEDICINE category now has open access journals in both the #1 and #2 spots.
For further information on all the BioMed Central Impact Factor journals read the latest blog post.
Introducing new Open Repository website
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Open Repository is pleased to announce the launch of its new website. The new site provides users with all the information they may need when considering implementing an institutional repository.
Explore the brand new site for yourself and discover:
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If you would like more information or would like to discuss setting up a non-obligatory pilot repository at your institution please do not hesitate to get in touch with Open Repository's newly appointed Business Development Manager, Claire Bundy.
Stay up to date with the very latest repository news by reading the Open Repository newsletter - the lastest issue includes the presentation slides taken from the workshop held at the ACRL conference in March: Developing a Repository: The Library's Journey.
On location
BioMed Central will be exhibiting at the following upcoming events. Email for an appointment or just drop by the booth. We look forward to meeting you.
IFLA
23-27 August
Milan, Italy
Booth: 204
XXVIII Charleston Conference Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition
14-16 October
South Carolina, USA
Is an event you are attending not listed? Contact us and let us know where you will be this year.
We have moved
BioMed Central has recently moved into a new office and as such our address and telephone numbers have changed. Please make sure you update your contact details for us including that of your Sales Representative.
BioMed Central
Floor 6, 236 Gray's Inn Road,
London WC1X 8HL, UK
Customer Services Department
Phone: +44 (0) 20 3192 2000
E-mail: institutions@biomedcentral.com
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