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BioMed Central (BMC)

BioMed Central (BMC) is an independent open-access publisher providing a portal to over 130 peer-reviewed journals, several research databases, and other products related to biomedical research. UW Faculty and students may publish any number of articles in BioMed Central journals without paying article processing fees. All manuscripts submitted to BMC receive prompt and thorough feedback from participating peer reviewers. Through our membership with BMC, UW actively supports your research and open-access scholarly publishing.

BMC offers quick, advanced, and boolean search options, in addition to alphabetical menus indexing their journals and subject areas. Article citations and references can be directly imported to several bibliographic citation management systems, including RefWorks. A number of topic-specific gateways are also provided that link directly to collections of research information.

example of BioMed Central's Advanced Search interface

UW subscribes to other BioMed Central research products, such as:

Faculty of 1000 Biology: highlights and reviews the most interesting papers in the biological sciences based on the recommendations from over 1,000 leading researchers

images.MD: an online encyclopedia featuring more than 50,000 high-quality medical images, each one accompanied by authoritative text from 2,000 of the world's leading medical experts.

BioMed Central also provides you the option to receive recent development information, such as new BMC journal titles, via email and/or RSS headline feeds.

Access BioMed Central from the Library’s Journal Articles, Etc. (Research Databases) page by clicking on the letter "B" in the Browse by Title section, then by selecting the link for "BioMed Central".

You can access the journals published by BioMed Central by conducting an author search (using "BioMed Central") in the Library's catalog, TRELLIS.

For more information, please contact:

Laura Briggs
Liaison Librarian for Chemistry and LT3
Ext. 33112

Anne Fullerton
Liaison Librarian for Biology and Chemical Engineering
Ext. 36917

Carol Stephenson
Liaison Librarian for Health Studies & Gerontology, and Optometry
Ext. 36912

Rachel Caldwell, Associate, Library Communications and Information Services
, Co-ordinator, Library Communications and Web Management
, Assistant, Library Communications and Web Development

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