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Báo cáo sinh học: "One of the unusual features of Journal of Biology is its commitment to publish each research article online as" Journal BioMed Central of BiologyEditorialPublished: 2 May 2003Journal of Biology 2003, 2:1The electronic version of this article is thecomplete one and can be found online athttp://jbiol.com/content/2/1/1© 2003 BioMed Central LtdOne of the unusual features of Journal issues, which are now being prepared, year. In addition, announcements ofof Biology is its commitment to readers can look forward to further support for the open-access publishingpublish each research article online diversity, and we hope that potential model have continued to pile up fromas it is ready, and to assemble a print authors will continue to be reassured around the world, from both fundingissue around as few or as many that we do intend to cover their agencies (see, for example, those listedresearch articles as are available at favorite subject area. at http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/one time. This print issue includes A notable attribute of the second about/apcfaq) and individual institu-two research articles along with asso- research article in this print issue is tions (see http://www.biomedcentral.ciated commentary, and this reflects a that the senior author is the journal’s com/inst/). Ever since the first circu-change in the pace at which suitable Editor-in-Chief, Martin Raff. There lation in 1999 of an idea fromarticles are being submitted to the will be some readers who question Harold Varmus for an NIH-fundedjournal - although we continue to the propriety of the Editor-in-Chief public repository of open-accessdecline tens of articles for every one publishing in ‘his own journal’ - but research articles, it has been clear thatthat is accepted for publication, as in a classic double bind, if he chose every author who chooses to publishbefits a journal that aims to join the instead to publish in another high- their research in an open-accesstop rank. profile journal there would be those journal rather than one that charges a Like all peer-reviewed research who doubted his commitment to subscription fee is benefiting thejournals, this one can only select for Journal of Biology. We can only re- community of interested researcherspublication from among the articles assure the sceptics that the peer- both immediately and in perpetuity.submitted to it. Given our aspiration review process was, as usual, We urge you to bear these issues into cover the full spectrum of biology, stringent and anonymous, and that mind when considering where toit is gratifying to note that the the journal’s usual standards and publish your next important piece ofresearch articles published so far span practices were applied especially research.a broad range of biological subjects. scrupulously to this article. We hope Theodora Bloom, Editor, Journal of BiologyThe first articles described genome- that others, whether formally associ- E-mail: editorial@jbiol.comwide characteristics of gene expression ated with this journal or not, will(http://jbiol.com/content/1/1/5) and a follow the Editor-in-Chief’s lead andchemical approach to studying cell sig- submit their best work to this journal Editor’s notenaling during development and and so help promote open access asdisease (http://jbiol.com/content/1/ the preferred method of publishing The authors of the second research2/10). Now, the articles in this issue in biology. article in this print issue (http://describe the application of a new com- The momentum towards open- jbiol.com/content/2/1/7) have both hadbination of biophysicial technologies access publishing has continued to close associations with Journal ofto single-molecule measurements build in the months since Journal of Biology, and Martin Raff continues to(http://jbiol.com/content/2/1/6) and ...