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 We are pleased to announce that PMC Physics A will not be levying any article processing charges for all articles accepted for publication between now and December 31st.Please pass this news on to your colleagues as this is the perfect opportunity to have your worked published in a fully peer...

PhysMath Central & Open AccessView more presentations from Chris Leonard. This is a presentation given at the INSPIRE meeting @ FermiLab earlier this month, outlining the various open access features of PhysMath Central and also improving on my slide design skills!

PMC Physics A board member Brian Cox on what went wrong with the LHC last September, how it was fixed and what they are looking forward to now. Originally presented at Ted U in February 2009.

Apologies for the long break between postings, but with moving office, having a baby and being ill, there really don't seem like enough days in the week or hours in the day, but we'll try to make up for it with some good news.PMC Biophysics, our latest journal covering all aspects of biological...

 Last month I visited CERN (that's me in front of the CMS experiment) to attend the kick-off meeting of the SOAP project...

PhysMath Central, along with our colleagues at BioMed Central and Chemistry Central, are moving to new offices on Friday 20th March...

Recently I have read two very inspiring and stimulating articles which should fire the imagination of any working research scientist.The first is a transcript of a talk given by Richard Hamming of Bell Labs 23 years ago, entitled "You and Your Research"This talk centered on Hamming's observations...

  The first journals launched by PhysMath Central, PMC Physics A and PMC Physics B, have both been selected for inclusion in the updated 2009 versions of the CAS and Scopus databases. Congratulations to the editors, authors and reviewers of both journals for managing this so quickly after launch.

PMC Physics A is proud to announce the publication of its first review article...

So, in the words of Britney Spears, 'it's been a while' - but here we are with some updates on new outward-facing features we have recently added to PhysMath Central [we're always tinkering with things behind the scenes].Firstly, the more eagle-eyed among you will have already noticed that the...

What I want to write about today is this idea, seemingly fashionable on blogs and FriendFeed (and PLoS editorials) at the moment, of authors switching from using their names to identify themselves on papers to using some other form of ID. The so-called unique author ID problem...

From Bill Hooker's blog:Science Online '09 is less than a week away, and I'm going to be co-moderating an unconference session with Björn Brembs, the theme of which is "Open Access publishing: present and future".Björn has already put some notes up on the wiki, and there's an interesting...

BioMed Central (and PhysMath Central)'s deputy publisher Bryan Vickery was interviewed briefly at Online Information 2008 yesterday. Read the interview with Dirk Kaser here.

In the last few days, people requesting a new password have found that it hasn't been working. This is because we were doing something wrong. Many apologies. It is all fixed now and all passwords should currently work. If you wish, you can still request a new password and that will work too...

I'll be at Online tomorrow for the session on STM Information in Focus, amongst other things. Drop me a line if you want to meet up. I'll be trying to keep abreast of everything on Twitter too, via FlockUp

 It is with some pride we announce the publication of the first articles in PMC Biophysics, PhysMath Central's 3rd open access research journal...

I can't remember how I came across this site, but it sure is entertaining if you can suspend credulity and credibility for a short while. My favourite? Physics carols from the last 4 decades...

PMC Physics B editor Michael Brunger on the benefits of open access publishing in atomic phyiscs

Cameron Freer, an instructor in pure mathematics at MIT, is working on a fascinating new project called vdash.org (vdash being the mathematical symbol for logical provability)-  a mathematical wiki which only allows 'true' statements to be added by the users...

Elsevier, the world's largest scientific publisher, has recently recognized that all results from the Large Hadron Collider will be published exclusively in OA journals, and to that end has magnanimously "agreed to sponsor any articles accepted for publication that report the initial...

Things have been a little hectic, so we are simply listing here a collection of links which have stopped us getting on with work and caused us to open a new tab in Firefox...

A quick reminder that PhysMath Central will be exhibiting at the joint ESSDERC/ESSCIRC conference in Edinburgh next week...

 An interesting experiment has arisen from Bloomsbury - the people behind the Harry Potter books. They are about to launch a venture offering full-text of research monographs online for free...

We have just published an excellent editorial by PMC Physics A editor-in-chief, Ken Peach. In it, he outlines what we might  discover with the LHC apart from the Higgs...

 We're with Brian Cox on this one. Although it should be taken with a pinch of salt. See Brian's explanation of his use of this entertaining and underused term in science.Anyway, we're here to celebrate the most publically anticipated event in physics and probably science for quite some time...

We had a fun time reading through the entries to our PMC Biophysics T-shirt slogan competition entries. Many thanks to all of you who entered...

I found this interesting blog post on Nature's dissection of BioMed Central's comments today: While the normal forms of commenting occurred (criticism, requests for clarification, interpretive comments), to me the most interesting part of the commentary generated was the additional information...

PhysMath Central will be attending and exhibiting at the solid-state devices and ciruits meeting ESSDERC & ESSCIRC 2008 in Edinburgh this year...

Ginny Hendricks writes on the 'Marketing Publishers' blog: Scholarly publishers should blog for the same community engagement and reputation management reasons as any corporation:Open and more frequent dialogue with customers.Release news and comment faster.Influence perceptions.Other influential...

 After a number of requests citing summer holidays and conference travelling, we have decided to extend the fee-waiver period for PMC Biophysics...