BMC Expands and Broadens Focus.
Posted by Alex Bienkowski on Sep 19th, 2007
2007
Sep 19
Actually, what I meant to say and got wrong in the headline is that the same group which publishes BioMed Central’s fleet of Open Access research journals is about to launch a companion structure for physics and math. Physmath Central will soon publish the first number of its first journal, to be called Physics A. This seems to me to be very good news for OA supporters, since it indicates a certain stability in the publishing effort devoted to biosciences, and that stability is sufficiently constant to allow the publishers to think about expansion. One possible problem I see is that arXiv already offers a lot of the same advantages that publication in Physmath Central would confer. We shall see:
Physmath Central Home
Hi there,
I’m the publisher for PhysMath Central and I just wanted to let you know that we are very aware of the strengths of arXiv and do not see ourselves as competing against it in any sense.
Articles in arXiv are typically not peer-reviewed, whereas we offer a speedy and high-quality peer review service, largely thanks to our stellar editorial board for PMC Physics A.
Read more about our symbiotic relationship with arXiv in an interview I gave to Research Information a few months ago:
http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=138
Regards,
Chris