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A Conversation With BioMed Central’s Cockerill On Open Access Publishing

Abby Clobridge | Information Today, Inc | November 12, 2013

BioMed Central (BMC), one of the leading open access (OA) and STM publishers, announced in mid-September that Matthew Cockerill, managing director, would be leaving the company at the end of the year. BMC was founded in 2000 and was acquired by Springer Science+Business Media in 2008. Last month, I had a chance to sit down with Cockerill to talk about some of his experiences with OA and STM publishing. Read More »

World Health Organization Goes Open Access-Joins PubMed Central

By Alanna Orpen | July 11, 2014

Back in January, the global health authority, the World Health Organisation (WHO), announced the launch of a new open access policy to ensure the widespread dissemination of scientific research. The policy, which applies to all WHO-authored or WHO-funded research published in external journals and books, kicked into action on 1st July 2014.

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