Press releases

Business press releases 2006 and earlier

• Announcement: Article-processing charges for 2007
  20 December 2006
• BioMed Central announces Journal of Medical Case Reports
  06 December 2006
• Zurich Open Repository and Archive goes live using Open Repository service
  27 November 2006
• Chinese Medicine launched at 2006 World Congress on Chinese Medicine
  23 November 2006
• Faculty of 1000 Medicine appoints Toni Fournier as Sales Director
  15 November 2006
• Faculty of 1000 Biology launch Pharmacology & Drug Discovery Faculty
  30 October 2006
• Manchester Metropolitan University launches open access repository using Open Repository service from BioMed Central
  27 October 2006
• BioMed Central recruits senior publishing industry figures to drive business expansion plans
  24 October 2006
• BioMed Central's Deborah Saltman awarded the Rose-Hunt Award
  10 October 2006
• Message from BioMed Central's Publisher - October 1st 2006: a big day for open access
  02 October 2006
• Current BioData announces development of the Targeted Proteins database - a major new resource for pharmaceutical industry R&D
  02 October 2006
• Current BioData announces appointment of Ian J Tarr as CEO together with a team of senior staff to drive commercial expansion
  02 October 2006
• Survey of biomedical funders shows widespread support for open access
  15 September 2006
• Chemistry Central Journal announced at ACS National meeting
  12 September 2006
• Announcing the launch of Open Access Central
  22 August 2006
• Announcing the launch of Chemistry Central
  22 August 2006
• Joe Sodroski wins the 2006 Retrovirology Prize
  27 July 2006
• BioMed Central Journals join Medscape Publishers' Circle to Provide Current Research on a Spectrum of Medical Issues
  06 July 2006
• BioMed Central welcomes UK research councils actions to promote open access
  29 June 2006
• Genome Biology's first Impact Factor - 9.71
  20 June 2006
• Impressive new Impact Factors for BioMed Central's open-access journals
  20 June 2006
• Four more journals from BioMed Central accepted for Impact Factor tracking
  12 June 2006
• Iceland's National Hospital, Landspitali University Hospital, launches repository using Open Repository service from BioMed Central
  09 May 2006
• Peoples Archive launches free web access to the video life stories of the world's greatest thinkers, creators and achievers
  26 April 2006
• BioMed Central welcomes EC report on Europe's scientific publication system
  11 April 2006
• Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry included in PubMed Central
  24 March 2006
• BioMed Central appoints new Editorial Director (Medicine)
  08 March 2006
• BioMed Central launches Biology Direct
  05 February 2006
• Launch of Faculty of 1000 Medicine
  23 January 2006
• Current Science Group becomes Science Navigation Group
  30 December 2005
• Geochemical Transactions moves to open access with BioMed Central
  16 November 2005
• NHS England extend BioMed Central membership to 2008
  10 November 2005
• Dramatic rise in number of authors publishing in open access journals, independent survey finds
  01 November 2005
• UK Science Minister's comments on open access contradicted by evidence, says BioMed Central
  28 October 2005
• BioMed Central responds to ALPSP's study 'The Facts about Open Access'
  14 October 2005
• BioMed Central appoints Matthew Cockerill as Publisher
  14 September 2005
• Beilstein-Institut publishes first issue of new open access journal in organic chemistry
  28 August 2005
• Stephen P Goff awarded inaugural Retrovirology Prize
  07 July 2005
• BioMed Central applauds Research Councils UK draft statement on Open Access
  05 July 2005
• Open Access journals get impressive impact factors
  23 June 2005
• Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry - Call for Papers
  07 June 2005
• Spain embraces Open Access with BioMed Central membership
  03 June 2005
• Launch of BMC Veterinary Research
  01 June 2005
• BioMed Central applauds Wellcome's leadership on Open Access, but emphasizes the need for immediate access to research
  24 May 2005
• Faculty of 1000 Biology launch physiology faculty
  20 May 2005
• Faculty of 1000 Biology launch ecology faculty
  17 March 2005
• Launch of Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry announced
  14 March 2005
• All Irish Universities subscribe to Faculty of 1000 Biology from BioMed Central
  11 March 2005
• Wolfram Publicon® gives new momentum to Open Access publishing
  10 March 2005
• BioMed Central welcomes the new National Institutes of Health Public Access policy
  04 February 2005
• BioMed Central announces publishing partnership with The Scientist magazine
  15 December 2004
• Google Scholar "good news for Open Access"
  19 November 2004
• Denmark makes national Open Access commitment
  12 November 2004
• BioMed Central's comments on the Government Response to the "Scientific Publications: Free for all?" report
  08 November 2004
• An audience with Francis Crick - online
  22 October 2004
• National Open Access agreement for Norway
  18 October 2004
• Adsumo introduces new solution for jobseekers and employers in the life sciences
  20 September 2004
• JISC renews BioMed Central membership for UK Universities
  20 September 2004
• Open Access to Spanish research
  16 September 2004
• BioMed Central Membership Announcement
  15 September 2004
• BioMed Central launches repository service for institutions
  13 September 2004
• Fourteen Maryland institutions sign up to BioMed Central
  10 September 2004
• Oberlin Group joins BioMed Central
  17 August 2004
• BioMed Central to consult funders and librarians over Open Access payment model
  3 August 2004
• BioMed Central applauds BMJ's Open Access stance
  27 July 2004
• CIHR joins in the international registration of randomized controlled trials
  23 July 2004
• Scientific Publications: Time for change
  20 July 2004
• House of Commons Inquiry report: Press Page
  14 July 2004
• Delayed Impact Factors 'conceal success of new journals'
  12 July 2004
• Open Access journals proven to compete on quality
  24 June 2004
• National Open Access agreement for Finland
  10 May 2004
• Open Access to Italian cancer research
  06 May 2004
• Faculty of 1000 Biology member honoured by AACR
  22 March 2004
• BioMed Central explodes Open Access mythsOpen Access is good news for UK research funding
  22 March 2004
• NHS England purchases online medical image database from BioMed Central
  02 March 2004
• Summary of discussion with library community over revised membership model
  23 February 2004
• Australia opens access to research with BioMed Central
  08 December 2003
• Two new consortia sign up as BioMed Central Members
  18 November 2003
• Open Access to Ohio research
  10 November 2003
• What trials do the NHS spend their money on?
  21 October 2003
• Wellcome Trust give huge boost to Open Access
  1 October 2003
• National Library of the Netherlands and BioMed Central agree to open access archive
  17 September 2003
• CNRS use Faculty of 1000 Biology to evaluate researchers
  30 July 2003
• New partnership between Potsdam University and BioMed Central
  10 July 2003
• UK research, accessible for free, for everyone
  17 June 2003
• Greater transparency for clinical trials
  16 May 2003
• Max Planck supports open access to research
  02 May 2003
• NHS research accessible, for free, for everyone: NHS England sign agreement for BioMed Central Memberships
  06 March 2003
• 1st BRIN sign up as BioMed Central Members
  19 February 2003
• First century for 21st century publisher: BioMed Central announce the first 100 Institutions to join its Membership Program
  06 February 2003
• New The Public Library of Science will operate the Open Access publishing model that BioMed Central is using
  19 December 2002
• New partnership between INIST-CNRS and BioMed Central will create new national archive of open access research
  03 December 2002
• A year of innovation
  02 December 2002
• University of California joins forces with BioMed Central
  06 November 2002
• Faculty of 1000 wins the ALPSP award for publishing innovation
  20 September 2002
• It's good to talk: new multidiciplinary journal aims to improve communication between researchers
  19 August 2002
• The Scientist Launches New Website
  18 August 2002
• The Open Society Institute announces grants for BioMed Central institutional membership
  02 July 2002
• BioMed Central Launches Open Access Charter
  01 July 2002
• Transatlantic partnership creates new global recruitment website for biological and medical scientists
  26 June 2002
• The Scientist Names Richard Gallagher Editor
  18 June 2002
• Faculty of 1000 granting free access to developing countries in association with the World Health Organization
  24 May 2002
• BioMed Central and ISI ResearchSoft collaborate to speed author submissions
  21 May 2002
• New open access journal set to challenge Nature, Science and Cell
  17 May 2002
• BioMed Central announces new partnership with The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
  14 May 2002
• Telling science stories: BioMed Central launches a multimedia resource of the most significant scientists of the 20th century
  08 May 2002
• NIH endorse BioMed Central's Institutional Membership Program
  30 April 2002 3
• New Science Press launches Proteins: From Sequence to Structure
  18 April 2002
• World Health Organization joins BioMed Central's Institutional Membership Program
  26 February 2002
• BioMed Central offers the technology to deliver the goals of the Budapest Open Access Initiative
  14 February 2002
• The first online encyclopedia of medical images is now available
  11 February 2002
• Support for open access grows as McMaster University signs up to BioMed Central
  28 January 2002
• Researchers at top institutes publish with BioMed Central
  18 January 2002
• Open access to research to be funded by BioMed Central's new Institutional Membership Program
  20 December 2001
• BioMed Central to adopt a "processing charge" for articles published in its journals
  30 November 2001
• The Scientist and BioMed Central come together to publish high-impact magazine
  16 November 2001
• BioMed Central launch next generation scientific literature recommendation service
  14 November 2001
• BioMed Central promotes scientific communication by providing free access to meeting abstracts
  16 October 2001
• Nobel Prize winners support BioMed Central and the new Faculty of 1000 literature evaluation service
  9 October 2001
• Self-declared signatories of the PloS open letter choose to publish their research with BioMed Central
  5 October 2001
• BioMed Central announces first wave of journals in a new publishing initiative
  29 August 2001
• BioMed Central embraces the Open Archives Initiative
  10 August 2001
• BioMed Central to publish clinical trial protocols to raise the standards of medical research
  31 July 2001
• BioMed Central is pleased to announce the publication of Sydney Brenner's autobiography
  23 July 2001
• BioMed Central to deposit e-journals with the British Library
  17 July 2001
• Get "Research on the move" with BioMed Central
  12 July 2001
• BioMed Central to consider charging authors for paper submissions
  29 June 2001
• BioMed Central appoints Jan Velterop as Publisher
  21 June 2001
• Faculty of 1000 - Highlighting quality scientific research
  18 June 2001
• Over 1000 authors submit their research papers to BioMed Central journals as the demand for open access to research articles grows
  16 May 2001
• New Editorial Directorate member Nobel Laureate joins BMC Editorial Directorate
  2 January 2001
• Barbara Starfield and Brian Haynes join top Editorial Directorate
  19 December 2000
• Top biomedical researchers form Editorial Directorate for open-access publishing venture
  22 May 2000
• The impact of free access on biomedical science
  5 May 2000
• BioMed Central to launch at microbiology meeting
  2 May 2000
• BioMed Central to free scientists and clinical researchers from copyright restrictions
  6 April 2000
• BioMed Central - Freedom of Information for the Science Community
  4 April 2000
• Current Science Group declares support for 'PubMed Central' historic development
  1 September 1999
• Science publishing - beginning of a revolution
  4 April 1999