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BMC Proceedings - a new open access journal for conference publications
BMC Proceedings will accept a variety of conference-related content from peer-reviewed research or review articles to collections of meeting abstracts. Conferences on any topic within biology or medicine will be considered.
The journal will be published online but also offers a competitive print service for production of hard copies of conference proceedings, and can offer a print on demand service to make content available via online bookshops. An example of a print on demand supplement from Genome Biology was recently announced.
All proceedings will be published without barriers to access and content will be indexed/included in PubMed and PubMed Central.
The first content, to be published in December, will be a collection of articles from the Genetic Analysis Workshop 15: Gene Expression Analysis and Approaches to Detecting Multiple Functional Loci Proceedings held in St Pete's Beach, Florida, USA, 11-15 November 2006.
Further information is available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcproc
Conference organisers wishing to find out more about publishing proceedings should contact us with brief details of their conference (including title, place, date, website, expected number and type of submissions).
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Kuan-Teh Jeang, Editor-in-Chief of Retrovirology recently hosted a dinner attended by several board members and guests, during the International AIDS Society’s Meeting on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention held in Sydney at the end of July.
The meeting brought
together over 6,000 scientists, HIV clinicians and community leaders to review
important advances in HIV research. Retrovirology
(unofficial impact factor 4.32) publishes articles on all aspects of basic
research into retroviruses and regularly features articles of importance on
HIV/AIDS.
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BioMed Central at ISMB/ECCB in Vienna
Last week saw the biggest bioinformatics event of the year, with the
joint Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/European Conference on
Computational Biology attracting nearly 2000 delegates to Vienna. This is a field where open access is very much the norm rather than the exception, and enthusiasm for openness was clearly on show amongst the attendees, who vied to get hold of the much prized "I'm Open" BMC Bioinformatics T-shirts...
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Summary of BioMed Central’s Workshop at MLA ’07 conference
In May 2007, BioMed Central held a workshop as part of the MLA Conference in Philadelphia, USA. The workshop began with Natasha Robshaw, BioMed Central who gave an overview of article-processing charges and the publishing options, payment mechanisms and central funds associated with open access publishing. Ellen Finne Duranceau, Scholarly Publishing and Licensing Consultant, MIT Libraries gave a presentation on the role of a librarian in an open access world. Members from the BioMed Central Marketing and Sales Team facilitated group discussions relating to the administration of open access publication charges, providing an opportunity for delegates to share their experiences and opinions.[Read More]
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Congratulations to Henri Derschum, from the InstMikroBioBW, who left the 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) conference in Munich last month with a shiny new iPod nano.
The competition was a huge success as hundreds of hopefuls crowded the BioMed Central stand to sign up, some more than once!
The BMC stand itself attracted lots of attention, with a new eye-catching design and wide screen viewer. Visit our conferences page to find out if we're exhibiting near you this year.
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A valuable
opportunity is now at hand for librarians to evolve and extend their role
within the academic institution. Under the traditional model, the role of the
librarian centred on purchasing access to proprietary information for users. In
an open access environment, librarians have the opportunity to take a more
active role in facilitating scholarly communication. By partnering with research
funders and research administrators to support open access repositories and
open access journals, they can ensure that research from their institution is
effectively disseminated. The cost of sharing the results of research with the
wider research community can be viewed as one of the costs of the research. By
working with research administrators to set up central Open Access publishing
funds, paid for as an indirect cost by research funders, librarians can make it
much easier for authors to publish in open access journals, and so can
accelerate the transition to a fully open access future.
BioMed Central will be holding a consultation workshop at the Medical Libraries Association annual conference in Philadelphia, to discuss a number of issues relating to open access publishing including funding and payment mechanisms. The consultation will be held onsite at the MLA conference on Monday, May 21st, 2007 from 7.00 - 9.00am and breakfast will be provided. Spaces are limited, so please send an email to MLAconsultation@biomedcentral.com if you would like to attend.
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SXSW - Open Access, Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web collide in Austin
I'm currently en route to Austin, Texas which, as well as being the setting for one of my all time favourite films, also hosts a renowned series of annual festivals on film, music and interactive media.
I'm fortunate enough to be partipating in this year's interactive media event, taking part in a panel organized by John Wilbanks of Science Commons on the topic of Web 2.0 and Semantic Web: The Impact on Scientific Publishing.
My fellow panelists include Melissa Hagemann from the Open Society Institute, Timo Hannay from Nature, and Amit Kapoor who is responsible for the technology behind PLoS One. The panel is taking place at 5pm on Saturday 10th March - it looks set to be an interesting session.
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