Great news for all UW life science and medical researchers! University of Washington is now an institutional member of BioMed Central. With this membership, UW researchers are now able to publish an unlimited number of research articles in journals published by BioMed Central - free.

BioMed Central is committed to its policy of providing free, full text access to all original research papers published in any of its 80+ online journals covering all areas of biology and medicine, and any journals that will be added over time.

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   list of UW authors who have published in BioMed Central
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SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) ... a worldwide alliance that encourages competition in the scholarly communications market and supports the open-publishing models of BioMed Central.

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