Chemistry Central Journal evolves to BMC Chemistry

I am pleased to announce that as of January 2019, Chemistry Central Journal, an Open Access (OA) broad scope journal, publishing across all areas of chemistry, will be renamed to BMC Chemistry and will start publishing its first content immediately. We are excited to welcome this journal in the BMC series family and can’t wait to work alongside Editors, authors and readers of this historic journal and the important community that it serves. BMC Chemistry will further strengthen the BMC series footprint in the physical sciences by publishing quality articles and by pushing the boundaries of open chemistry. A brief history of Chemistry Central Journal Chemistry Central Journal launched in 2007, as the flagship of BMC’s spin-off imprint, Chemistry Central. This was at a formative era for OA publishing and Chemistry Central Journal was a true pioneer in open chemistry; not just as a broad-scope Gold OA chemistry journal, but as a journal that kept open science close to its core mission – by experimenting with better ways of publishing NMR spectra for example, or by looking at virtual environments and social networking for chemistry education. Over its first decade, Chemistry Central Journal published over a thousand fully OA papers, and in 2017 alone, papers published in the journal were accessed more than half a million times. The scholarly publishing world has changed a lot since 2007. There are many more journals, many more ways to publish papers, data and researc...
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