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  MEMBERSHIPS 

BioMed Central (BMC) (a supporter member)

BioMed Central (BMC) is a UK based open access publishing house that provides access to full-text of research articles published in its 100+ online journals covering all areas of biology and medicine.

Public Library of Science (PLoS)(an institutional member)

Public Library of Science (PLoS)is a California non-profit group
of bioscientists formed in 2000, publishes eight online peer-reviewed open access journals.

 LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe)(a registered member)

LOCKSS(Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe)is an open source digital repository program developed at Stanford University. LOCKSS enables any library to maintain their own archive of content from various publishers, with minimal technical effort and using affordable hardware for preserving e-journals and other web-based content.  

 SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)(a full member)

SPARK (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is an organization developed by the Association of Research Libraries, working to enhance ways of scholarly communication. SPARC has been successful in
negotiating lower journal subscription prices, encouraging the development of new peer-reviewed journals in the not-for-profit sector, and relaying its concerns to the international scholarly community

 PUBLISHING FEE DISCOUNTS

BioMed Central (BMC)

Mason authors are given a 15% discount on the Article Processing Charge (APC) when publishing in BMC journals.

BMC Supporters Memberships

BioMed Central: For authors

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Mason authors are entitled to reduced charges for publication in all PLoS journals.

PLoS Institutional Membership

PLoS Publication Fees


 MASON-AUTHORED OPEN ACCESS ARTICLES(by date)

A large-scale realistic model of V1 exhibiting orientation selectivity diversity and laminar dependence. Oliveira RF, Roque AC.BMC Neuroscience 2007, 8(Suppl 2):P36 (6 July 2007)

A model for the rat exploratory behavior in the elevated plus-maze
Tejada J, Oliveira R, Salum C, Morato S, Roque A. BMC Neuroscience 2007,
8(Suppl 2):P37 (6 July 2007)

The role of glia in seizures. Ullah G, Cressman JR, Barreto E, Schiff SJ
BMC Neuroscience 2007, 8(Suppl 2):P28 (6 July 2007)

Slow potassium dynamics and seizure evolution. Cressman R, Ullah G, Ziburkus J, Barreto E, Schiff SJ. BMC Neuroscience 2007, 8(Suppl 2):P80 (6 July 2007)

Oral Pirfenidone in patients with chronic fibrosis resulting from radiotherapy: a pilot study. Simone NL, Soule BP, Gerber L, Augustine E, Smith S, Altemus RM, Mitchell JB, Camphausen KA. Radiation Oncology 2007, 2:19 (31 May 2007)

A decline in transcript abundance for Heterodera glycines homologs of Caenorhabditis elegans uncoordinated genes accompanies its sedentary parasitic phase. Klink VP, Martins VE, Alkharouf NW, Overall CC, MacDonald MH, Matthews BF
BMC Developmental Biology 2007, 7:35 (19 April 2007)

SpliceMiner: a high-throughput database implementation of the NCBI Evidence Viewer for microarray splice variant analysis. Kahn AB, Ryan MC, Liu H, Zeeberg BR, Jamison DC, Weinstein JN. BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:75 (5 March 2007)

Therapeutic emails. Alemi F, Haack MR, Nemes S, Aughburns R, Sinkule J, Neuhauser D
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2007, 2:7 (16 February 2007)

Rev-dependent lentiviral expression vector. Wu Y, Beddall MH, Marsh JW
Retrovirology 2007, 4:12 (7 February 2007)

BBGD: an online database for blueberry genomic data. Alkharouf NW, Dhanaraj AL, Naik D, Overall C, Matthews BF, Rowland LJ. BMC Plant Biology 2007, 7:5 (30 January 2007)

Evolutionarily new sequences expressed in tumors. Kozlov AP, Galachyants YP, Dukhovlinov IV, Samusik NA, Baranova AV, Polev DE, Krukovskaya LL
Infectious Agents and Cancer 2006, 1:8 (25 December 2006)

SNP-PHAGE High throughput SNP discovery pipeline.Matukumalli LK, Grefenstette JJ, Hyten DL, Choi IY, Cregan PB, Van Tassell CP. BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:468 (23 October 2006)

Genomic divergences among cattle, dog and human estimated from large-scale alignments of genomic sequences.Liu GE, Matukumalli LK, Sonstegard TS, Shade LL, Van Tassell CP.BMC Genomics 2006, 7:140 (7 June 2006)

Spectral embedding finds meaningful (relevant) structure in image and microarray data. Higgs BW, Weller J, Solka JL.BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:74 (16 February 2006)

Acceleration of epithelial cell syndecan-1 shedding by anthrax hemolytic virulence factors. Popova TG, Millis B, Bradburne C, Nazarenko S, Bailey C, Chandhoke V, Popov SG. BMC Microbiology 2006, 6:8 (7 February 2006)

Transient Calcium and Dopamine Increase PKA Activity and DARPP-32  Phosphorylation. Lindskog M, Kim M, Wikström MA, Blackwell KT, Kotaleski JH.
PLoS Computational Biology, 2006 2(9)

Application of machine learning in SNP discovery. Matukumalli LK, Grefenstette JJ, Hyten DL, Choi IY, Cregan PB, Van Tassell CP. BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:4 (6 January 2006)

The distribution of SNPs in human gene regulatory regions. Guo Y, Jamison DC
BMC Genomics 2005, 6:140 (6 October 2005)

Effective antiprotease-antibiotic treatment of experimental anthrax
Popov SG, Popova TG, Hopkins S, Weinstein RS, MacAfee R, Fryxell KJ, Chandhoke V, Bailey C, Alibek K. BMC Infectious Diseases 2005, 5:25 (8 April 2005)

Secondary structure in the target as a confounding factor in synthetic oligomer microarray design. Ratushna VG, Weller JW, Gibas CJ
BMC Genomics 2005, 6:31 (8 March 2005)

Identifying combinatorial regulation of transcription factors and binding motifs
Kato M, Hata N, Banerjee N, Futcher B, Zhang MQ
Genome Biology 2004, 5:R56 (28 July 2004)

HIV-1 gene expression: lessons from provirus and non-integrated DNA
Wu Y. Retrovirology 2004, 1:13 (25 June 2004)

GeneOrder3.0: Software for comparing the order of genes in pairs of small bacterial genomes. Celamkoti S, Kundeti S, Purkayastha A, Mazumder R, Buck C, Seto D
BMC Bioinformatics 2004, 5:52 (5 May 2004)

CoreGenes: A computational tool for identifying and cataloging "core" genes in a set of small genomes. Zafar N, Mazumder R, Seto D. BMC Bioinformatics 2002, 3:12 (24 April 2002)

 

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Last updated September 20, 2007