Open Educational Resources Playbook

BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 291 peer-reviewed open access journals. The portfolio of journals spans all areas of biology. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely accessible online immediately upon publication. Athors publishing with BioMed Central retain the copyright to their work, licensing it under the Creative Commons Attribution License which allows articles to be re-used and re-distributed without restriction, as long as the original work is correctly cited. BioMed Central is owned by Springer Science+Business Media, and also hosts the SpringerOpen platform.

All materials published under SpringerOpen are licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licensed.

Thieme Open is the gateway to the open access journal content from the Thieme Publishing Group. It covers both fully open access journals, as well as articles published on an open access basis in our subscription journals. All open access content published by Thieme is freely and permanently available online for everyone, increasing the visibility, usage and impact of your work.

Wiley Open Access is a program of fully open access journals. All research articles published in Wiley Open Access journals are immediately freely available to read, download and share. The fully open access journals are published in collaboration with authoritative journals and societies as well as supported by internationally renowned editorial board members.