November 15, 2004
BioMed Central journals
March 2003
Yale University Library Joins BioMed Central
Yale University Library has reached agreement with BioMed Central to join as an institutional member. BioMed Central (BMC) is an
independent publishing house committed to providing open access to the peer-reviewed biological and medical research it publishes.
As a benefit of membership, the $500 article processing fee is now waived for all Yale-authored articles published in one of
BMC's 60 peer-reviewed journals. Accepted articles become available through the Internet to readers worldwide. In addition,
articles are immediately archived for permanent access in PubMed Central by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, which is part of the National Institutes of Health.
The Yale University Library pursued membership in BMC as we explore alternative scholarly publishing models in a digital environment.
BioMed Central is premised on a belief that open access to research is vital to rapid and efficient progress in science, and that
subscription-based access to research hinders rather than promotes scientific communication. Yale's membership in BMC has been funded by the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and the Kline Science Library.
For additional information on BioMed Central and how to publish in a BMC journal, see
http://www.med.yale.edu/library/new/biomedcentral.html
To view all BMC journals, see
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/authors/bmcjournals
For a list of Yale researchers who have already published via BMC, go to
http://www.biomedcentral.com/inst/36055
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Yale University is now an institutional member of the Public Library of Science (PLoS),
http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/. PLoS is a non-profit organization committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. PLoS journals are supported with a combination of grant funding, publication fees, and institutional memberships. The pricing model allows PLoS articles to be freely available at time of publication. All articles are immediately archived with the National Library of Medicine as part of PubMed Central.
As an institutional member, Yale authors can publish at a 50% discount ($750) on the $1,500 publication fee. Kline Science and
Cushing/Whitney Medical Libraries jointly purchased an institutional membership for Yale University. Our membership is part of ongoing efforts to promote open access to scientific research and new pricing models for scholarly publishing.
The Public Library of Science journals are:
PLoS Biology, http://www.plosbiology.org
PLoS Medicine, http://www.plosmedicine.org
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