BioMed Central

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BioMed Central (BMC) is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. This is known as Open Access.

All the original research articles in journals published by BioMed Central are immediately and permanently available online without charge or any other barriers to access. This commitment is based on the view that open access to research is central to rapid and efficient progress in science and that subscription-based access to research is hindering rather than helping scientific communication.

BioMed Central is committed to ensuring efficient and effective quality control through full and stringent peer review.

BioMed Central publishes a wide variety of journals and other services.

BioMed Central's portfolio of over 100 journals ranges from the highly selective, general interest Journal of Biology, which publishes both online and in print, to a range of specialist online only journals. BioMed Central also publishes Faculty of 1000, the leading literature evaluation service.

Authors who publish original research articles in journals published by BioMed Central retain copyright over their work.

BioMed Central supports PubMed Central and other digital repositories, as well as encouraging self-archiving by authors.

All research articles published by BioMed Central are archived without delay in PubMed Central, and are also included in PubMed. This means that all articles are permanently accessible and conveniently searchable. BioMed Central supports non-exclusive digital archiving of research articles by as many international archives as possible to ensure the security and permanent accessibility of that research, and will deposit its research articles in other digital repositories as and when they are available.

Another Open Access publisher is the Public Library of Science (PLoS).