BioMed Central Cancellation Information

Occasionally questions have come in from faculty/researchers asking about U of T's subscription to Biomed Central.

UofT Libraries had a BMC supporter membership for a number of years. However, in 2009 financial pressures resulted in the library discontinuing its membership. The library continues to support open access publishing through its institutional repository, T-Space, and encourages all UofT authors, whether publishing in non-open access or open access scholarly journals to:

a) retain rights to their intellectual property by requesting that an author addendum be appended to the contract they sign with each journal (More info about this at http://carl-abrc.ca/en/scholarly-communications/resources-for-authors.htmlhttp://carl-abrc.ca/en/scholarly-communications/resources-for-authors.html) and
b) to deposit in T-Space via the Faculty of Medicine's Office of Research and International Relations: http://www.medresearch.utoronto.ca/

For more information please contact Sandra Langlands, Director of the Gerstein Science Information Centre, at s.langlands.melvin@utoronto.ca or 416.978.6370.

Cheers, Allison
Jan 28, 2010