Biology

For 15 years, BioMed Central has been making scientific research freely accessible and discoverable through partnerships, innovation, and collaboration with the scientific community. Dedicated to open research, the portfolio now publishes over 290 peer-reviewed, open access journals in biology, clinical medicine and health. All articles published by BioMed Central are open access and freely available online, immediately upon publication. This is in conjunction with Springer Publishing.

SpringerOpen provides researchers from all areas of science technology, medicine, humanities, and the social sciences with a place to publish open access in journals and books. The SpringerOpen portfolio consists of over 230 journals covering 13 subject areas, and offers high-level peer-review and production processes to guarantee the quality of the work. Due to the growing demand for open access publication, there is also the option to publish open access books and monographs with SpringerOpen.

Nature Research has consistently been an early mover in embracing open access. The portfolio offers more than 40 fully open access journals and more than 80 have an open access option.These range from multidisciplinary titles such as Nature Communications -- the most cited multidisciplinary open science journal in the world -- to highly specialized titles such as the NAture Partner Journals series. Combining rigorous peer-review, editorial excellence and technological innovation, Nature Research open access journals make the highest quality research more visible, shareable, and citable.