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24 January 2006
In this issue...
Faculty of 1000 Medicine has NOW LAUNCHED
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We are pleased to announce that Faculty of 1000 Medicine, sister service to the award-winning Faculty of 1000 Biology, has now launched
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This online literature evaluation service draws upon the authority and experience of nearly 2500 of the world's leading researchers and clinicians to highlight
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German funding body publishes study showing strong support for open access
Researchers in Germany are overwhelmingly in favour of greater promotion of open access by their funding body.
This is the finding of 'Publishing Strategies in Transformation?', a study commissioned by The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG),
the German Research Foundation, which has just been published in English.
Over one thousand DFG-funded scientists from all disciplines took part in the survey. In all, over 80 percent of respondents "thought that a
culture of open access could play a decisive role in encouraging the exchange of scientific information, and considered that funding free access publications was basically a good idea," say the report's authors.
Young researchers in the natural, life and engineering sciences were more strongly in favour of promoting open access publications than their older colleagues.
The DFG is already a strong supporter of open access. Since 2001, researchers have been able to apply for a publication grant as part of DFG-funded projects. Based on the results of the study,
future DFG award letters will encourage project leaders to make their (journal) publications available through open access wherever possible. The reports authors also say "the DFG must make it a priority to raise
awareness of the advantages of open access publications within the scientific community."
For more information, read DFG's press release
or the study.
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Latest editorial board boosted:
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The editorial board of BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders has doubled in size to increase its medical coverage and international reach, making it
the open access journal of choice for researchers in this field. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders has an Impact Factor of 1.00. With an enlarged editorial board, fast and thorough peer review, high visibility and international
readership, this is the time for you to submit your manuscript to BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. See the journal's editorial board page
for a full list of board members.
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Focus on
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BMC Complementray and Alternative Medicine is an open access, peer-reviewed journal published by
BioMed Central. All articles in the journal are immediately and permanently available online for all to read and use free of charge.
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine publishes original research articles in complementary and alternative healthcare interventions, with a specific emphasis
on those that elucidate biological mechanisms of action. The journal is advised by an international editorial board.
BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine is included in PubMed and MEDLINE.
Why not submit your next article to BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine? To find out more
about the scope of the journal, submit an article or sign up for article alerts by email, visit the website.
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Popular articles: From Genome Biology, BMC Medicine and more
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Method 
Discovery of biological networks from diverse functional genomic data
Chad L Myers, Drew Robson, Adam Wible, Matthew A Hibbs, Camelia Chiriac, Chandra L Theesfeld, Kara Dolinski, Olga G Troyanskaya
Research
Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome in 41 adults: the illness, the patients, and problems of management
David R Fleisher, Blake Gornowicz, Kathleen Adams, Richard Burch, Edward J Feldman
Review
Chocolate and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review
Eric L Ding, Susan M Hutfless, Xin Ding, Saket Girotra
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Editor's choice: Foot and mouth risk modeling; False positive recall and HRT
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Foot and mouth risk modeling
BMC Veterinary Research 2006, 2:3
Mathematical modelling of the recent foot and mouth disease epidemic suggests that the direct distance between sites is a better predictor for infection risk than
distance by road, offering insights into infectious disease mapping and possible infection routes.
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False positive recall and HRT
Breast Cancer Research 2005, 8:R8
Women who use oestrogen-only or oestrogen-progestagen hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are more likely to be recalled to mammography assessment with no subsequent diagnosis of
breast cancer, compared to women who have never used HRT reveals the Million Women Study.
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