Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration - new home, no article fees!

[Smalheiser, Neil]

Dear Colleague,

The Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration has now transitioned from Biomed Central to U of Illinois.  Please bookmark the new site: http://journals.uic.edu/jbdc/.

As before, all articles will be peer-reviewed with a fast turnaround (initial reviews in 3 weeks), immediate publication upon acceptance, and open-access (no subscriptions or registration needed).  However, we will now have NO mandatory article fees. This should greatly reduce the barrier to contributing from authors whose work is not grant-supported.

Prospective authors should be reassured that papers do not need to be explicitly biomedical in order to be appropriate for the journal. As it says on the journal website:

"Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration (DISCO) is an Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal that will encompass all aspects of scientific information management and studies of scientific practice. Currently, many scattered disciplines study aspects of scientific practice, including informatics, computer science, sociology, cognitive psychology, scientometrics, rhetoric, and history and philosophy of science. The journal will connect these disparate perspectives with each other, and with contemporary scientific practice."

Neil Smalheiser
Editor-in-Chief
discovery at psych.uic.edu
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