BioMed Central: The Open Acces Publisher

What is BioMed Central?

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BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher which has pioneered the open access publishing model

All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. BioMed Central views open access to research as essential in order to ensure the rapid and efficient communication of research findings.

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The research articles in all journals published by BioMed Central are 'Open Access'. They are immediately and permanently available online without charge. For example in Ecology, Evolutionary biology :

Journals:

BMC Ecology    Carbon Balance and Management    Saline Systems    BMC Evolutionary Biology    Frontiers in Zoology

For example, it is possible to found this article : Life cycle and population growth rate of Caenorhabditis elegans studied by a new method (2009). Daniel Muschiol,  Fabian Schroeder, and Walter Traunspurger: Animal Ecology, University Bielefeld, Morgenbreede 45, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany

The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/9/14