- Open access publishing has grown significantly in recent years with more open access mandates, publishers, central funds, and impact factors for open access journals. - BioMed Central is the largest open access publisher, publishing over 190 journals and 44,000 articles under Creative Commons licenses. It covers costs through article processing charges (APCs) and other revenue streams. - Many funders now mandate open access, increasing author compliance for open access. More institutions are also establishing central funds to pay article processing fees.

1. Latest Developments in Open Access Matthew Cockerill Managing Director, BioMed Central

12. Membership at other OA publishers

13. Membership at other OA publishers

15. Funders and OA

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21. Institutions and OA

22. Harvard: Office of Scholarly Communications

25. Impact Factors

26. Which have been Biomed Central’s most rapidly growing journals

27. What do these journals have in common?

28. Official Impact Factors

30. Manuscript submissions continue to grow rapidly

31. Breakdown of submission growth by journal type

32. Established journals are switching to open access

37. OASPA - a new industry association