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

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:

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 will see much better dissemination of research findings."

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 information pages

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

You can also take a look at our current open access event schedule to see where the next such events will be held.
 

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 students

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!

SLA, New York, US

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.
 

Faculty of 1000 medicine launch announced

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.

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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