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Alison Mercer

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  • The National Cancer Moonshot Summit: what are the key priorities? - 29th June 2016
  • Opening up the data – an update to BioMed Central’s Copyright and License Agreement - 21st August 2013
  • The Journal Selector: Find the right journal for your research - 25th March 2013

The National Cancer Moonshot Summit: what are the key priorities?

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29/06/2016

On Medicine

The National Cancer Moonshot Summit is being held today in the US, and in this blog, I asked three of our Editors-in-Chief what they think are the main… Read more »

Opening up the data – an update to BioMed Central’s Copyright and License Agreement

21/08/2013

Research in progress blog

The Creative Commons CC0 waiver will become part of the BioMed Central Copyright and License Agreement on Tuesday 3rd September. For articles submitted from… Read more »

The Journal Selector: Find the right journal for your research

25/03/2013

Research in progress blog

Through BioMed Central’s partnership with Edanz, we are aiming to support authors to select the journal that best suits their research from the 350+ open… Read more »

BioMed Central’s journals demonstrate their impact

29/06/2012

Research in progress blog

The 2011 edition of Thomson Reuters’ Journal Citation Reports, released on June 28th 2012, demonstrates the high impact of BioMed Central’s journals… Read more »

Assessing the effects of social marketing on physical activity behaviors

21/12/2009

On Medicine

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (IJBNPA) has recently published its first thematic series of articles presenting research on… Read more »

Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy publishes first research article

22/10/2009

On Medicine

Persistence pays off, at least that is the message from Rountree et al. in the first research article published in Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy.… Read more »

Motor Control in the Elderly – first thematic series published in Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

04/12/2008

On Medicine

Life expectancy, particularly in developed countries, has significantly increased over the last century. Therefore, there is a new need to improve the quality… Read more »

A new home for ovarian research

06/10/2008

On Medicine

Journal of Ovarian Research is a new open access independent journal focusing on research that provides new insights into ovarian functions as well as… Read more »

Asia Pacific Family Medicine moves to BioMed Central

29/09/2008

On Medicine

Asia Pacific Family Medicine, the official journal of the Asia Pacific Region of WONCA, has relaunched today on BioMed Central’s publishing platform. As… Read more »

BioData Mining – a new open access journal from BioMed Central

18/07/2008

On Biology

BioData Mining is a new open access journal which publishes original articles on all aspects of data mining applied to high-dimensional biological and… Read more »

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