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Springer erwirbt BioMed Central Group

Springer Science Business Media (www.springer.com) has an agreement for the purchase of BioMed Central Group (www.biomedcentral.com), the world's leading open access publishing, getroffen.BioMed Central in May 2000 as an independent publishing house founded with the goal, offer free access to peer-reviewed research articles in biology and medicine. With more than 180 peer-reviewed journals BioMed Central is the world's largest open access provider. Some of the most important journals of the publishing house are Journal of Biology, BMC Biology, BMC Medicine, Malaria Journal, BMC Bioinformatics and Genome Biology. BioMed Central has revenues of approximately 15 Million in. The publishing house has its headquarters in London, with a second office in Liverpool, and employs approximately 150 Employees.

Derk Haank, CEO of Springer Science Business Media: "This acquisition confirms the fact, that we consider open-access journals as a viable option in the scientific publishing industry, and not as an ideological campaign. We have since starting Springer Open Choice in 2004 significantly positive experiences gained, and the activities of BioMed Central are for us a suitable addition. In addition, we can expand this purchase the item from Springer in the life sciences and biomedical scientific societies and offer a greater range of publishing options. "

Matthew Cockerill, Publisher bei BioMed Central: "We are very excited about this new growth- and development phase of BioMed Central. The willingness of Springer, to experiment with open access publishing models, is among the largest STM publishers abnormally. BioMed Central has shown, that Open Access can function as a business model, and we look forward to continued strong growth as part of Springer. The support of our authors, Magazine editor and institutional customers, is critical to the success of BioMed Central, and we will continue to focus on, to offer them the best possible service. "

Springer Science Business Media (www.springer.com) is one of the world's leading suppliers of scientific- and literature. Springer is the second largest publisher of journals in STM (Science, Technology, Medicine), the largest publisher of STM books and the German-speaking market leader in business-to-Business. The company brings over 1.700 Journals, over 5.500 new books per year, and the world's largest STM eBook Collection with news about 28.000 Titles published. Springer presented in 2004 Springer Open ChoiceTM (www.springer.com/openchoice) Before, an open-access option for authors and institutions. With approximately 5.000 Employees, the Group has operations in about 20 Countries in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. In the year 2007 Springer achieved an annual turnover of about. 906 Million.

BioMed Central (www.biomedcentral.com) is an STM publisher and pioneer of the Open Access publishing model. All peer-reviewed research articles, BioMed Central publishes the, are now freely available on the Internet and appear under a license, the further distribution and use permits.

Berlin / London, 7. October 2008

Contact:
Eric Merkel-Sobotta
Springer Science Business Media
Phone: +49 30 82 787 54 34
eric.merkel-sobotta@springer.com



Posted on 07.10.2008 in Verlagsnachrichten.

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