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| Parent company | Springer Nature |
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| Status | Active |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Founder | Current Science Group |
| Headquarters location | London, WC1 United Kingdom |
| Distribution | Open access |
| Publication types | Scientific journals |
| Nonfiction topics | Science |
| Official website | www |
BioMed Central (BMC) is a United Kingdom-based, for-profit scientific open access publisher that produces over 250 scientific journals. All its journals are published online only. BioMed Central describes itself as the first and largest open access science publisher. It was founded in 2000 and has been owned by Springer, now Springer Nature, since 2008.