
“The NWO wants scientific and scholarly publications to be freely accessible to everyone on the Internet. The organisation will provide five million euros to cover the cost of this kind of publication. This is a major policy shift for the NWO. ...

"The open availability of federally funded research for broad public use in open online archives is a crucial building block in laying a strong national foundation to support accelerated discovery and innovation. It encourages broader participation in the scientific process by providing equitable ...

Last but certainly not least, let us introduce 'The Other Side of the Mobius Strip' from Beatrice Downing, a biologist working with our sister company F1000: Let us know what you think, and send us your efforts!

Sorry the not-so-snappy title, but this is a question someone asked me yesterday: How many papers on arXiv eventually end up published in a peer-reviewed journal? I had to confess I had no idea...

The second of our three strips introduces Ross Hopkins: author, artist, and incidentally a Production Editor for BioMed Central.Click the image for a larger version.

We're here at the XXIV International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies in the CCH Convention Center in Hamburg. Come and visit the PhysMath Central stand on your break for some surprisingly refreshing giveaways!

We were very pleased to hold the inaugural PhysMath Central Rubik's cube competition at the recent ICPEAC meeting in Kalamazoo. The aim was to solve a PMC-branded Rubik's cube the fastest, and the winner was Allan Landers from Auburn University in Alabama...

PhysMath Central will henceforth be publishing a physics-related comic every Tuesday. We will be cycling through three strips, starting with the first offering from myself and PhD student Sam Cook. Let us know what you think, and send us your efforts - you never know, we might publish them! Cl...

One of the things we do here at PhysMath Central (and our sister companies BioMed and Chemistry Central) which not all publishers do is format our full-text articles in freely-available XML and MathML...

You may have seen on our RSS feed of latest articles the publication of a very interesting paper in PMC Biophysics by Hsu and Hsu. Prof. John Straub gives us a bit of background, and highlights the work's particular merits...


















