Open access (OA) publisher BioMed Central has announced that it is offering a discounted article processing charge to Journal of Medical Case Reports authors and expanding the scope of its Case Report of the Year Award. The moves are to celebrate the launch of Cases Database, its freely accessible database of peer-reviewed case reports which launched last month.
Creating the database was one of the original aims of Journal of Medical Case Reports. The expertise and guidance of several of the journal's senior editorial board members, including in particular Editor-in-Chief Prof Michael Kidd and Deputy Editor Geoff Wong, have reportedly been invaluable in developing the database.
Cases Database is growing rapidly and includes several thousand more case reports than when it first launched in December 2012. It currently includes nearly 20,000 case reports from 170 journals. All case reports, more than 2,500, published in Journal of Medical Case Reports are included in Cases Database.
Journal of Medical Case Reports is offering a 20 percent discount on the article processing charge to Cases Database users who submit a case report to the Journal before March 1, 2013. When submitting a manuscript, authors should request a discretionary discount during the submission process, quoting discount code CASESDB2013.
Nominations for BioMed Central's 2012 Case Report of the Year Award will close soon. This award has previously recognised the most original and significant, to clinical practice, case report published in Journal of Medical Case Reports. Given the value of case reports is increased when multiple sources are considered, the scope of the Case Report of the Year Award has been extended, for this and subsequent years, to include all journals publishing case reports at BioMed Central. The nominations, which should be submitted online, are also now open publicly, and will be judged by Prof Kidd.
