Advocacy
Support Open Access. Spread the Word
One of the best ways you can support BioMed Central and open access is to spread the word to your colleagues, friends and students. Click on the headings below for useful resources to help promote open access.
If you are an advocate of open access to the scientific literature, you can now wear your heart on your sleeve by ordering any of BioMed Central, Chemistry Central or PhysMath Central's T-shirts.
Download one or more of the posters listed, print them out, and display them prominently around your lab.
Download and reuse featured presentations which have all been given by BioMed Central staff in recent months. We hope that you will find them useful and inspiring for your own presentation on open access and BioMed Central.
Distribute BioMed Central leaflets to faculty, students and administrators.
Edit and send one of the email templates to your friends or colleagues informing them about BioMed Central.
Transform your desktop and promote BioMed Central journals by downloading one of our attractive desktop wallpapers.
A great way for you to advocate open access, and support BioMed Central, is to organise an open access seminar at your institution.
Place a banner button on your institution's and/or department's website with a link to how to publish with BioMed Central.
Cataloguing data for all BioMed Central journals, including ISSNs, URLs and date of first publication. The data is available in both comma delimited format (CSV) format and MARC format, to allow easy import into your cataloguing system.
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Useful links of open access resources.
BioMed Central will be exhibiting at various conferences in the coming months. Please contact us for an appointment or just drop by the booth if you are also planning to attend any of these events.
BioMed Central responds to some of the most prevalent and most misleading anti-Open Access arguments.
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