Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that it has been selected by the National Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan to publish the Journal of Biomedical Science. The journal is currently accepting submissions via its new BioMed Central website and will publish its first open access articles in January 2009.
Led by Editor-in-Chief Michael M. C. Lai, the Journal of Biomedical Science seeks to be an important forum for communication among experts from different biomedical fields and between the scientific community in Asia and the rest of the world. The journal is indexed in MEDLINE and Web of Science and has an Impact Factor of 2.02.
There is an increasing interest from traditional journals to switch to open access. The Journal of BioMedical Science is the latest journal to make the move. Several other established journals affiliated with scientific societies/organisations have recently transferred to BioMed Central's open access platform, including Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research (Italian National Cancer Institute), Asia Pacific Family Medicine (Asia Pacific Region of WONCA), and Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine (affiliated with 9 Scandinavian societies).
