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Tuesday, January 20, 2004


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News from the Open Access publisher


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In this issue...


Journalists voice their support for Open Access


Searching BioMed Central's information pages


Business as usual at BioMed Central


New issue of Journal of Biology is complete


New members


Popular papers: some of our most viewed articles


Journal profile: BMC Cell Biology


Editor's choice from BioMed Central's journals

Faculty of 1000 Biology - Hidden Jewels





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"The electronic publication process worked very smoothly. You feel in control the whole time. The peer review was very quick and the publication appeared surprisingly fast."

Károly Kulich
AstraZeneca R&D Mölndal, Sweden

Read this author's article in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes.


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Journalists voice ther support for Open Access

"What's the point of doing science if it's not freely available to everyone?" says Tim Radford, Science Editor of the British daily newspaper The Guardian. Perhaps this is not a surprising attitude, given that his job is to make the fruits of scientific research available to the wider community.

In this week's Open Access Now, Radford and two other British journalists openly support the Open Access publishing movement. They feel that Open Access will make researching stories easier for them, and that newspaper readers will benefit from being able to access the original article if they want to find out more.

Anjana Ahuja, a feature writer at The Times, believes that, "scientific information is not for the elite. People pay for science through their taxes, and deserve to know what they're paying for."

"This is especially true in the UK after the debacles of BSE, foot-and-mouth and GM foods...Denying the public access to scientific information only serves to heighten suspicion and mistrust," she warns.

Read more in the latest edition of Open Access Now.



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Searching BioMed Central's
information pages.

It is now possible to search BioMed Central's information pages using a search box powered by Google. The search box can be found at the bottom of the menu on the left of each information page. Simply type in your search term and press 'Go!'.


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Business as usual at BioMed Central

As you may have heard in the news, Elsevier have decided to close BioMed Net, the web portal to their biomedical research, sometime during 2004. It will however be business as usual at BioMed Central.

To clarify, BioMed Central is an open access publishing house that forms part of the Current Science Group of companies. We are in no way affiliated to BioMed Net or Reed Elsevier.



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New issue of Journal of Biology is complete

The complete online edition of Volume 3, Issue 1 is now available on the Journal of Biology website. The print edition of this issue will be available in February.

New !
Research news
Budding viral hijackers co-opt the endocytic machinery to make a getaway
Diane Martindale
Journal of Biology 2003, 3:2 (published 19 December 2003)

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Minireview
Bending out and breaking away: host-cell accomplices in retroviral escape
Melvyn W Yap and Jonathan P Stoye
Journal of Biology 2003, 3:3 (published 19 December 2003)


Research article
Endophilins interact with Moloney murine leukemia virus Gag and modulate virion production
Margaret Q Wang, Wankee Kim, Guangxia Gao, Ted A Torrey, Herbert C Morse III, Pietro De Camilli and Stephen P Goff
Journal of Biology 2003, 3:4 (published 4 December 2003)



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New members

31 new institutions became BioMed Central members on 1 January, this year:

Australia

Australian National University, Australia
Charles Darwin University, Australia
CSIRO, Australia
Deakin University, Australia
James Cook University, Australia
Melbourne University, Australia
Monash University, Australia
Murdoch University, Australia
University of Adelaide, Australia
University of New South Wales, Australia
University of Queensland, Australia
University of South Australia
University of Sydney, Australia
University of Western Australia
University of Western Sydney, Australia
Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Germany

Bielefeld Universitaet, Germany
Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
IFADO, Germany
Karlsruhe Universitaet, Germany
Tuebingen Universitaet + Klinikum, Germany
Italy

Azienda Ospedaliera Sant'Anna di Ferrara, Italy
Azienda Ospedaliera di Reggio Emilia, Italy
Azienda USL di Reggio Emilia, Italy
CEVEAS Azienda USL di Modena, Italy
Rest of the world

King's Fund, UK
M D Anderson Cancer Center, USA
University of Basel, Switzerland
Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
University of Houston, USA
Université de Liège, Belgium
Researchers at these institutions now receive article processing charge waivers when they submit their manuscripts to BioMed Central's journals.

390 institutions have joined BioMed Central's membership program, including some of the world's most prestigious institutions: the Max Planck Society; Harvard, Cornell and Princeton universities; Cancer Research UK; the World Health Organization; NHS England and all the universities in the UK.

If your institution is not yet a member ask your chief librarian to contact us at institutions@biomedcentral.com for further details. To find out more visit our membership pages.



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Popular papers: some of our most viewed articles

Our most viewed feature allows you to look at the most popular articles in the last 30 days or view the most popular articles of all time.

Three recent popular articles are:

Research
MicroRNA targets in Drosophila
Anton J Enright, Bino John, Ulrike Gaul, Thomas Tuschl, Chris Sander, Debora S Marks
Genome Biology 2003, 5:R1 (12 December 2003)
[Abstract] [Full text]

3152 accesses in the last 30 days

Research article
Systematic reviews: a cross-sectional study of location and citation counts
Victor M Montori, Nancy L Wilczynski, Douglas Morgan, R Brian Haynes, the Hedges Team
BMC Medicine 2003, 1:2 (24 November 2003)
[Abstract] [Full text]

2278 accesses in the last 30 days

Research
The effects of different weaning modes on the endocrine stress response
Guniz Meyanci Koksal, Cem Sayilgan, Oznur Sen, Huseyin Oz
Critical Care 2003, 8:R31-R34 (3 December 2003)
[Abstract] [Full text]

1064 accesses in the last 30 days
In The Scientist

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Testing times in Australia


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Read the latest news and features from The Scientist magazine.



Latest Primer topic from New Science Press

Transcriptional Silencing – An introduction to the epigenetic inherited silencing of chromatin by remodelling complexes and siRNA.

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Journal profile: BMC Cell Biology


BMC Cell Biology publishes original research articles in all aspects of cell biology including cellular compartments, traffic, signalling, motility, adhesion and division.

Why not take a moment to read a research article from this journal, and consider submitting a manuscript.

All articles published in BMC Cell Biology are Open Access. They are also included in a range of abstracting and indexing services.

BMC Cell Biology has been accepted by ISI for citation tracking and inclusion in Web of Science, so the journal will have an impact factor in due course.

Pathway to phospholipase D activation
BMC Cell Biology 2003, 4:13
The cytohesin/ARNO family of ARF guanine nucleotide exchange factors, may represent the missing link between insulin receptor activation and the stimulation of ARF and subsequently phospholipase D.

Some of the most popular articles in BMC Cell Biology have been accessed more than 4000 times. To read more articles in the journal, or to submit your research, visit the website.


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Editor's choice from BioMed Central's journals

Palliative care in children
BMC Medicine 2003, 1:3
A US population based study shows that terminally ill infants who die spend most of their lives in hospital, whilst older children and adolescents are mainly cared for at home. Effective pediatric palliative care therefore requires coordination between hospitals and home care systems.



Genome-wide analysis of mRNA lengths in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Genome Biology 2003, 5:R2
A novel 'Virtual Northern' method provides a practical and efficient method for genome-scale analysis of mRNA transcript lengths. A study in Saccharomyces cerevisiae has revealed that approximately 12-15% of the yeast genome is represented in untranslated sequences of mRNAs.



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Faculty of 1000 Biology - Hidden Jewels


Faculty of 1000 Biology comprises over 1500 leading international life scientists, who highlight and comment on the best papers in biology. One of its most popular features are the continuously updated lists of Hidden Jewels --- interesting articles from less widely read journals.

One of this week's Top Hidden Jewels was identified by Genomics & Genetics Faculty of 1000 member Manyuan Long (University of Chicago) who comments:

"This paper developed the first genomic test for a prevailing hypothesis that many introns were recently acquired by eukaryotic genes. These analyses add significantly to the understanding of origin and evolution of exon-intron structure"

To read the full evaluation and see the details for this paper, visit the Faculty of 1000 website. If you are not a subscriber to Faculty of 1000, you will need to register for a free 48 hour trial. Alternatively, you can recommend Faculty of 1000 Biology to your librarian.