Introducing BMC MicroPub – fast, granular and revolutionary

I am happy to be able to share some exciting science publishing news with you. As you know, in the past few years, there has been a tremendous progress in open access publishing. The author-paying model has been shown to be viable in large part thanks to the pioneering efforts of BMC and PLOS. In particular PLOS One has been an incredible scientific and business success story that many others are trying to copy. Although these efforts are a great step forward they don't do enough to set all of the scientific knowledge free in a timely fashion. Sure you can publish almost anything today such as metadata, datasets, negative results and the occasional scientific advancement but the publishing process still takes too much time. In addition we are forced to build a story around the bits and pieces in some laborious effort to communicate our findings in a coherent fashion. Many of us feel that this publishing format is outdated and does not fit our modern quick-paced  internet age. What I am sharing with you today is going to change that. Introducing BMC MicroPub In coordination with BMC we are going to launch soon the pilot phase of a new online-only publishing platform. It was though from the ground up to allow for the immediate publishing of granular scientific information. Peer-review happens after online publication of the content and evaluation is not going to be based on trivial and outdated notions of scientific impact. Best of all, it is tightly integrated with the s...
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