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Biomedcentral (Bmc) 2019 – 2020, Anqi Shi, Heather Morrison
Biomedcentral (Bmc) 2019 – 2020, Anqi Shi, Heather Morrison
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Key points
- Open access commercial publishing pioneer BMC is now wholly owned by a private company with a portfolio including lines of business that derive revenue from journal subscriptions, book sales, and textbook sales and rentals
- Two former BMC fully OA journals, listed in DOAJ from 2014 – 2018 as having CC-BY licenses, are now hybrid and listed on the Springer website and have disappeared from the BMC website
- 67% of BMC journals with APCs in 2019 and 2020 increased in price and 11% decreased in price.
- Journals with price increases had a higher average APC in 2019, i.e. more …