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November 14, 2006
BMC Titles Covered by SCI
Three more independent journals tracked by Thomson Scientific (ISI)
Three BioMed Central journals were this month accepted by Thomson Scientific (ISI) for inclusion in the Science Citation Index (Expanded). BioMedical Engineering Online, Molecular Pain, and the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry (published by the Beilstein Institut in collaboration with BioMed Central) are now all on track to receive official Impact Factors.
Thomson Scientific (ISI) now tracks 41 of BioMed Central's journals.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:26 PM
November 12, 2006
AIP Launches Biomicrofluidics
AIP Launches Biomicrofluidics -
A New Interdisciplinary, Open Access Journal
Melville, NY, November 9, 2006 - The American Institute of Physics (AIP)
announced today that it has launched a new online journal,
Biomicrofluidics (http://bmf.aip.org), which provides a novel forum for
researchers from diverse fields, including engineering, physics,
materials science, chemistry, and biology. Biomicrofluidics is an open
access journal that distributes articles immediately to all scientists
and engineers worldwide with no access charge.
As an electronic-only journal with rapid publication time,
Biomicrofluidics is responsive to the fast-paced developments occurring
in this field. The journal primarily focuses on original research
articles, augmenting these with special sections and issues that help
elucidate and define specific challenges unique to the field. Authors
are encouraged to submit manuscripts to Biomicrofluidics at
http://bmf.peerx-press.org.
The journal is edited by Dr. Hsueh-Chia Chang, Bayer Professor of
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Director of the Center for
Microfluidics and Medical Diagnostics at the University of Notre Dame.
Dr. Chang has done extensive work on biological applications of
microfluidics and nanotechnology, and on pattern-formation dynamics
driven by hydrodynamic and electrochemical, biological, thermal, and
reaction-diffusion instabilities.
"With rapid turnaround and wide circulation, we hope to promote
interaction among the large but scattered microfluidic research
communities across the globe," said Hsueh-Chia Chang, Editor of
Biomicrofluidics. "It is our hope that Biomicrofluidics will serve this
growing community by offering a common link and a communication conduit
among the various scientific and engineering disciplines that
participate in this exciting new field."
Organized into four issues per year, Biomicrofluidics will publish each
article online in final citable form as soon as it is available. The
journal will cover topics such as DNA and molecular manipulation,
microfluidics and nanofluidics, wetting and nano-rheology, drop and
digitated platform, electrokinetics and magneto-hydrodynamics, pathogen
and molecular concentration, and separation and sorting devices.
The American Institute of Physics is a not-for-profit corporation with a
mission to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics and related
fields of science and engineering and its applications to human welfare.
Publishing and publishing services are part of that mission. Today, in
addition to publishing magazines and journals, AIP provides composition,
printing, fulfillment, marketing, and other services to science and
engineering publishers. AIP also fulfills its mandate by operating
Scitation, the online home of more than 150 leading journals published
by 20 science and engineering societies.
For further information, please contact:
Christine Orr
Marketing Manager
American Institute of Physics
Phone: +1 516-576-2484
Fax: +1 516-576-2374
Email: corr@aip.org
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:23 PM