From: Shirley Ainsworth <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 1:55 PM

What is the relationship between Biomed Central, SpringerOpen and
Springer Open Access?  Apart from all being part of the Springer
Nature imperium,  that is.

I was under the impression that Biomed Central was the main 'quality'
OA offering from Springer, although the imprint includes all sorts,
and that SpringerOpen was the production and hosting part offered to
societies with presumably less control.  However I have noticed
several journals that used to be published as BMC are now appearing
under SpringerOpen, for example  Geochemical Transactions, Chemistry
Central Journal, Journal of Cheminformatics, EPJ Nonlinear Biomedical
Physics...

And society journals like Applied Cancer Research and the Revista
Chilena de Historia Natural, the official publication of Sociedad de
Biologia de Chile, are published with BMC.

The whole thing seems to be further confused as both BMC and
SpringerOpen maintain separate web presences as well as being
available on SpringerLink.

Am I the only confused one?
thanks!

Shirley

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Shirley Ainsworth
Bibliotecaria/Librarian
Instituto de Biotecnologia, UNAM
Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
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