Open access Biomedical open science journals

The open science journal portfolio, demonstrates BioMed Centrals commitment to increasing transparency in scientic research. As open science journals they encourage authors to make available the raw data in order that it can be readily re-used and incorporated in further research. Sharing raw data assists in reducing scientic bias by helping to form a complete scientic record.

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Open science biomedical journals

BioMed Central publishes over 220 biomedical peer-reviewed, open access journals, many of which publish content that also includes or links to the raw data from the study, promoting transparency in scientic research. All journals are included in PubMed. For further details on any journal below, plus a full list of Editorial Board members, please visit the journals website.

www.gigasciencejournal.com editorial@gigasciencejournal.com Editor-in-Chief: Laurie Goodman (USA)

GigaScience aims to revolutionize data dissemination, organization, understanding, and use. An online open-access open-data journal, that publishes big-data studies from the entire spectrum of life and biomedical sciences. To achieve our goals, the journal has a novel publication format: one that links standard manuscript publication with an extensive database that hosts all associated data and provides data analysis tools and cloud-computing resources. Please note that authors are not currently required to pay for publication of articles during the journals rst year of publication; this is due to the generous support of the BGI.

www.opennetworkbiology.com editorial@opennetworkbiology.com Editor-in-Chief: Eric Schadt (USA)

Open Network Biology publishes articles relating to predictive, network-based models of living systems linked to the corresponding coherent data sets upon which the models are based, enabling a broad readership to evolve the models towards a more complete understanding of complex phenotypes. In addition to articles describing these large data sets, the journal also welcomes submissions of original research, software and methods, along with reviews and commentary, relevant to the emerging eld of network biology.

JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL SEMANTICS

www.jbiomedsem.com editorial@jbiomedsem.com Editors-in-Chief: Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (UK), Goran Nenadic (UK)

Journal of Biomedical Semantics addresses issues of semantic enrichment and semantic processing in the biomedical domain. The scope of the journal covers two main areas: Infrastructure for biomedical semantics and semantic mining, annotation, and analysis.

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BioData Mining
www.biodatamining.org editorial@biodatamining.org Editors-in-Chief: Jesus Aguilar-Ruiz (Spain), Jason Moore (USA)

BioData Mining is an open access, peer reviewed, online journal encompassing research on all aspects of data mining applied to high-dimensional biological and biomedical data, focusing on computational aspects of knowledge discovery from large-scale genetic, transcriptomic, genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic data.

BMC Research Notes is an open access journal publishing scientically sound research across all elds of biology and medicine. The journal provides a home for short publications, case series, and incremental updates to previous work with the intention of reducing the loss suffered by the research community when such results remain unpublished. www.biomedcentral.com/bmcresnotes researchnotes@biomedcentral.com BMC Research Notes also encourages the publication of software tools, databases and data sets and a key objective of the journal is to ensure that associated data les will, wherever possible, be published in standard, reusable formats. We are currently working with researchers across the full spectrum of biomedical research to dene appropriate recommendations for domain-specic data le standards.

www.jnrbm.com bjorn_olsen@hms.harvard.edu Editor-in-Chief: Bjorn Olsen (USA)

Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that promotes a discussion of unexpected, controversial, provocative and/or negative results in the context of current tenets. The aim of the journal is to provide scientists and physicians with responsible and balanced information in order to improve experimental designs and clinical decisions.

www.scfbm.org peterson.leif@ieee.org Editor-in-Chief: Emmanuel Ifeachor (UK), Leif Peterson (USA)

Source Code for Biology and Medicine considers manuscripts on all aspects of workow for information systems, decision support systems, client user networks, database management, and data mining. The journals aim is to publish source code for distribution and use in the public domain in order to advance biological and medical research. Through this dissemination, it may be possible to shorten the time required for solving certain computational problems for which there is limited source code availability or resources.

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BioMed Central is committed to increasing transparency in research; in addition to our open science journal portfolio, we have formed partnerships with a number of organisations to make it as easy as possible for you to share your data.

Enabling researchers to comply with best practice in data sharing by identifying eld-specic ways to present data so that it is standardized allowing for efcient data reuse. BMC Research Notes is collaborating with BioSharing to develop a comprehensive catalogue of domain-specic data standards across biology and medicine.

http://biosharing.org

The partnership between BioMed Central, DataCite, the British Library and the Digital Curation Centre has lead to the creation of a continually updated list of data repositories, to identify where researchers can deposit their data. These repositories accept a range of data le types and assign various permanent identiers such as DOI number.

http://datacite.org

www.labarchives.com/bmc

Authors submitting manuscripts to some BioMed Central journals can obtain a complimentary subscription to CONTACT LabArchives. LabArchives is an Electronic INFORMATION Laboratory Notebook which enables scientists to share and publish data les in situ; you can then link your article to these data. Data les published through LabArchives are assigned digital object identiers (DOIs), facilitating data citation, and will remain available in perpetuity.

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