Two OA milestones

BioMed Central is proud to announce the launch of our 100th independent journal, Source Code for Biology and Medicine....

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We encourage researchers with proposals for new journals and also editorial groups of existing journals to contact our independent journals team to find out more about the benefits of publishing with BioMed Central.

Hindawi Publishing Corporation is pleased to announce that it has published the 1,000th article in its open access journal collection for 2006. This milestone provides an indication of the significant growth of Hindawi's open access journal collection, which contains 25 journals with published content in 2006.

"We are quite confident of our ability to scale up our open access publishing program while maintaining or enhancing its current levels of academic quality and financial performance," said Hindawi's co-founder and CEO Ahmed Hindawi. "With the current level of almost 400 submissions a month, we expect to publish about 2,000 open access articles in 2007."

Hindawi began experimenting with open access during 2003, using an optional open access model. In 2004, we converted two subscription-based journals to a full open access model. During 2005 and 2006 we launched more than a dozen new journals under the open access model, and converted more than 25 subscription-based journals to open access.