Open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central, US, has launched BMC Research Notes, a new OA journal publishing scientifically sound research across all fields of biology and medicine. The journal seeks to provide a platform for short publications, case series, incremental updates to previous work, results of individual experiments and similar material that is currently seen to lack a suitable outlet.
An objective of BMC Research Notes is to ensure that associated data files will, wherever possible, be published in standard, reusable formats and are exposed to ensure that they are searchable and easily harvested for reuse. The intention is to reduce the loss suffered by the research community when such results remain unpublished. Submissions are fully peer-reviewed, and will be handled by an international board of academic Associate Editors spanning all biological and medical disciplines.
Not all scientific research leads to groundbreaking conclusions. Valuable research data all over the world is hidden away in lab drawers, unexposed to the light of day, and unused by the scientific community. This body of idle knowledge, or "dark data", is now seen to be set free with BMC Research Notes.
In a similar manner to BioMed Central's other journals such as Biology Direct and the Journal of Medical Case Reports, BMC Research Notes will make vast deposits of data publicly and freely accessible for researchers and general public alike.
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