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MBLWHOI Library News


MBLWHOI Library recently became a member of BioMed Central, an open access publishing venture that publishes more than 90 online journals, across the spectrum of biology and medicine. Sample titles include:

For the full list, please go to http://www.biomedcentral.com/browse/journals/.

The MBLWHOI Library membership gives our researchers all the benefits of publishing research articles in an open access journal without paying the usual article processing charge.

When you submit your research for publication in any of BioMed Central's journals, it will receive rigorous and rapid peer review.  If your article is accepted for publication:

• You retain the copyright of your work!
• Your publication will be accessible, at no cost, to anyone in the world via the Internet.
• Wider access to your publications makes them more likely to be read and cited.
• PubMed will index your publication within days of publication.
• You will be able to view access statistics for your article (recent articles have averaged >200 downloads per month per article).
• Your articles will be securely and permanently archived in PubMed Central.

Authors who choose to publish their research in BioMed Central's journals are lending significant support to the open access publishing movement. We hope that you will take full advantage of our membership and submit your next article to a BioMed Central journal.

For more information about BioMed Central, its aims and publishing program, visit
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/whatis.asp.

Articles created by researchers at our member institutions will be listed on MBLWHOI Library's BioMed Central site, http://www.biomedcentral.com/inst/38107/.