BioMed Central

BioMed Central
Parent companySpringer Nature
StatusActive
Founded2000 (2000)
FounderCurrent Science Group
Headquarters locationLondon, WC1
United Kingdom
DistributionOpen access
Publication typesScientific journals
Nonfiction topicsScience
Official websitewww.biomedcentral.com
Logo of BioMed Central until 2018

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.