Who's hot at GWUMC?

Dr. Fatah Kashanchi is listed as a 'hot 100' author by BioMed Central for his contributions as an author and peer reviewer in supporting BioMed Central's open access journals. Dr. Kashanchi, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has published twelve articles in BioMed Central journals in the past five years, and over half of these articles rank among the publisher's most highly accessed articles.

BioMed Central is an independent publisher which is committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. This means that the majority of BioMed Central's journals are freely available to researchers worldwide. BioMed Central journals maintain stringent peer review standards, and many BioMed Central journals have impressive impact factors. Authors who publish in BioMed Central journal retain copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

Himmelfarb Library is also a supporter of open access initiatives and BioMed Central and provides GWUMC researchers (including residents and students) with an institutional subscription to BioMed Central. Our institutional subscription provides a 15% discount on author publishing charges for any article submitted to a BioMed Central journal which is selected for publication.

To learn more open access journals and scholarly publishing, explore the following websites:

• Scholarly Publishing
• Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research
• Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• PubMed Central