BioMed Central Membership

BioMed Central is an internet publishing platform, recently purchased by Springer. They publish a suite of 233 Open Access peer-reviewed biomedical journals online, which are now joined by another, more social science-oriented set of offerings (81 journals) from SpringerOpen. BMC offers a subscription package – already taken up by the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Stellenbosch, and now also by UCT - which at the "top end" rate (above GBP20 000/yr), offers a 15% discount per article fee, and free repository connection to all institutional BMC-published articles, and a branded institutional web page linking to all the articles