Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal BMC Research Notes has now opened the submission system to standard research articles prepared in a more traditional format. Until now the journal has accepted, as direct submissions, short reports, technical notes, data notes, project notes, hypotheses and correspondence articles. Research articles, with their widely-accepted format, were not considered unless they were received as a post-peer-review transfer from another journal. The objective of this policy was to avoid restricting authors who felt their article could not fit easily within the I(B)MRaD template.
A major aim of BMC Research Notes is to complete the scientific record by publishing scientifically sound research, hypotheses and data sets - in particular, negative results, incremental and small scale research. With this new initiative, the journal aims to give authors of these, usually, shorter reports more flexibility and facilitate innovation in biomedical publishing. As such, there continues to be no restrictions on article length, number of references, tables or figures and the journal continues to welcome articles prepared in a non-traditional format.
Additionally, the journal will continue to consider research articles as transfers from any other BioMed Central journal, and strongly encourages this activity to increase the speed and efficiency of the peer-review process.
BMC Research Notes believes this change in the submission criteria gives authors the choice of a wide range of formats in which to effectively present their data to best reflect their results and objectives.
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