The BMC-series of journals are a collection of 59 (at last count) 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. Between them, they cover all major subject areas within biology and medicine. Two of the journals (BMC Biology and BMC Medicine) have a broad scope, and aim to publish particularly significant research, while the other 57 specialize on a particular subject area. BioMed Central (BMC) is a UK-based scientific publisher specializing in open access publication. ...
Several editors of the 93 independent journals published by BMC have told The Scientist that they are considering taking their journals to other publishers.
BMC's publisher, Matthew Cockerill, said the company is working with editors to resolve the problems, and insisted that the complaints are normal for any new company.
BMC management has been "so far, uncompromising" on these matters, said Jeang, and appears to not be heeding editors' complaints.
BMC (www.biomedcentral.com) is an independent publishing house which provides online access to peer-reviewed biomedical articles.
It publishes journals in a wide range of biomedical subject categories, the journals have editorial boards and peer-review processes similar to those for traditional print journals, the articles are indexed in MEDLINE, and the free BMCjournals are available online through PubMed.
In addition to subscription fees, the other major source of support for BMC is a $500 per article publishing fee that authors pay to have their articles published.
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