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BioMed Central (BMC) is a UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
-based for-profit scientific publisher specialising in open access
Open access

Open access -- free online access -- can be provided in two ways: open access publishing and open access self-archiving, by its authors, of non-open-access publications ....
 publication. BMC publishes over 180 scientific journal
Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research....
s, and describes itself as the first and largest open access science publisher. BMC sister companies publish the Chemistry Central and PhysMath Central journals. The Chairman is Vitek Tracz and the Publisher is Matt Cockerill.

Most titles are open access
Open access

Open access -- free online access -- can be provided in two ways: open access publishing and open access self-archiving, by its authors, of non-open-access publications ....
, including its flagship journals Journal of Biology
Journal of Biology

The Journal of Biology is a scientific journal published by BioMed Central.It strieves to publish biological research articles of "exceptional interest", though in 2007 it published only four primary research articles, with the rest of the articles being comment and short review articles....
, Malaria Journal, the innovative and the BMC journal series
BMC journals

The BMC-series of journals are a collection of 64 online research journals published by BioMed Central. Like all BioMed Central journals, they have a policy of Open access to the research articles they publish....
 including the leading titles BMC Biology and BMC Medicine.






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BioMed Central (BMC) is a UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
-based for-profit scientific publisher specialising in open access
Open access

Open access -- free online access -- can be provided in two ways: open access publishing and open access self-archiving, by its authors, of non-open-access publications ....
 publication. BMC publishes over 180 scientific journal
Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research....
s, and describes itself as the first and largest open access science publisher. BMC sister companies publish the Chemistry Central and PhysMath Central journals. The Chairman is Vitek Tracz and the Publisher is Matt Cockerill.

Most titles are open access
Open access

Open access -- free online access -- can be provided in two ways: open access publishing and open access self-archiving, by its authors, of non-open-access publications ....
, including its flagship journals Journal of Biology
Journal of Biology

The Journal of Biology is a scientific journal published by BioMed Central.It strieves to publish biological research articles of "exceptional interest", though in 2007 it published only four primary research articles, with the rest of the articles being comment and short review articles....
, Malaria Journal, the innovative and the BMC journal series
BMC journals

The BMC-series of journals are a collection of 64 online research journals published by BioMed Central. Like all BioMed Central journals, they have a policy of Open access to the research articles they publish....
 including the leading titles BMC Biology and BMC Medicine. Others are open access for the research articles portion only, such as , , , and. Some review titles, such as Current Opinion in Drug Discovery & Development are entirely subscription based. Open access content is released under the Creative Commons "Attribution" license which grants permission to reuse publications and produce derivative work.

In October 2008, it was announced that BMC, Chemistry Central, and PhysMath Central, had been acquired by Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media

Springer Science+Business Media or Springer is a worldwide publishing company based in Germany, which publishes textbooks, academic reference books, and peer-reviewed topical journals, with a focus on science, technology, mathematics, and medicine....
. Previously, since its creation, the company was part of Science Navigation Group, chaired by Vitek Tracz, which also owns The Scientist
The Scientist

The Scientist is a news journal and magazine particularly concerning biology and life sciences. It has been published monthly since 1986, and is also available online through personal or institutional subscription....
 (a popular science magazine—the daily news section is free access; the remainder is by subscription), Faculty of 1000
Faculty of 1000

Faculty of 1000 is a website for scientists that provides rankings and commentary on current scientific research papers. The service is designed to act as a filter, highlighting the most significant research along with evaluations of the research written by other scientists that emphasize why a particular research paper is interesting or imp...
 (a subscription-only current awareness service highlighting recent biological research), Global DataPoint, People's Archive and, in the past, two other companies which had previously been acquired by Springer, Images.MD (a medical image database) and Current Medicine.

See also

  • BMC journals
    BMC journals

    The BMC-series of journals are a collection of 64 online research journals published by BioMed Central. Like all BioMed Central journals, they have a policy of Open access to the research articles they publish....
  • Trials (journal)
    Trials (journal)

    Trials is an Open access , peer reviewed online journal regarding performance and outcomes of randomized controlled trials. The journal is published by BioMed Central whose editor in chief are Doug Altman Curt Furberg, Jeremy Grimshaw, and Peter Rothwell....


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  • by Peter Suber
    Peter Suber

    Peter Suber is the creator of the game Nomic and a leading voice in the open access movement. He is the senior research professor of philosophy at Earlham College, the open access project director at Public Knowledge, and a senior researcher at SPARC ....