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Editorial
Healthy competition. Competition between Open Access publications is good for authors, good for readers and good for Open Access.
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Feature
It is often claimed that Open Access offers new opportunities to bring important scientific and biomedical information to researchers and physicians in the developing world. Open Access Now talked to Indian information scientist Subbiah Arunachalam about the impact of Open Access on researchers in India.
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Research news from BioMed Central journals
Research published in Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source reveals that patients who have contracted SARS are more than twice as likely to die from the disease if they originate from areas of high pollution.
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A study published in BMC Infectious Diseases predicts that only one further person from the Republic of Ireland is likely to die from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) emanating from BSE-infected meat.
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News
Two leading financial institutions recently issued stock warnings for large commercial publishers through an assessment of the threat from Open Access competition.
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New Open Access choice for authors
BioMed Central launched on 24 November two new Open Access journals - BMC Medicine and BMC Biology. The journals complement the 57 established specialist titles in the BMC series by providing a more selective home for articles of broad interest.
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Who, What & Why?
A regular short guide to the players, stakeholders and technical terms relevant to Open Access publishing. 'Who, What & Why?' helps readers to become informed about the world of Open Access.
This issue we feature the Eprints.org.
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Open Access Journals
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