Jan Velterop,
Publisher of the BioMed Central Group, commented on this new
development: 'This deposit into the UK's National Archive of
Publications is consistent with BioMed Central's policy of
securing accessibility and permanent archiving of its
publications - it will add to the confidence of the scientific
community that their online papers are preserved for posterity
with the same degree of care as
print.'
 Guarantees long term
availability
This National Archive will be
another way in which the information published in the BioMed
Central journals can be made available in the long term.
Currently, all the research articles published are archived,
without delay, at the PubMed Central
site and are also indexed in PubMed. In addition to the above
online archiving solutions, BioMed Central will also be making
archival print versions of the BioMed Central journals. These
will be available on demand for libraries that require a hard
copy of the BioMed Central research articles.
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All these initiatives, combined with
the policy of promoting self-archiving by authors, means that
all research articles published on BioMed Central will be
permanently accessible and searchable in multiple archives.
BioMed Central is an independent
online publishing house committed to providing immediate free
access to the peer-reviewed biological and medical research it
publishes. This commitment is based on the view that open
access to research is essential to the rapid and efficient
communication of science. In addition to open-access original
research, BioMed Central also publishes reviews and other
subscription-based content.
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