BioSpace and BioMed Central Create Global Career Community

New online network reaches 1.6 million life science professionals

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Sep 16, 2010, 11:08 ET

DENVER, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- BioSpace and BioMed Central are announcing the launch of the BioMed Central Career Network today, a new online community for life science professionals seeking quality recruitment, job opportunities and industry news.

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The new Career Network combines BioSpace.com's 400,000 monthly unique visitors with open access publisher BioMed Central's 1.2 million registrants to create an interactive community for life science corporations, research institutes, government and academia. The Career Network provides all life science professionals with leading content, employment resources and hundreds of posted positions from one location.

"The BioMed Central Career Network is an important resource for professionals employed within research communities," said Mike Tansey, chief executive officer of onTargetjobs, the parent company of BioSpace. "This partnership also represents a crucial connection between top employers and job seekers engaged by BioMed Central's published research."

"BioMed Central's partnership with BioSpace will provide the biomedical community with a wide range of opportunities for advancing their career," said Matthew Cockerill, managing director of BioMed Central. "By linking researchers and potential employers together, the Career Network ensures the life sciences will continue to attract the highest caliber people for years to come."

Click here to visit the BioMed Central Career Network.

About BioSpace (BioSpace.com)

BioSpace.com is the leading, online resource for life-science careers, news and resources. For more than 15 years, BioSpace has helped accelerate recruitment, communication and discovery among business and scientific leaders.

An onTargetjobs, Inc., company, BioSpace powers DeviceSpace.com, an information and recruitment resource for the medical device and diagnostics industries, as well as ClinicaSpace.com, a similar resource for clinical research markets.

The BioMed Central Career Network is hosted on the BioSpace Collaborative portal and now online at BioSpace.com/BioMedCentralCareers.

About BioMed Central (BioMedCentral.com)

BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher, which has pioneered the open access publishing model. All peer-reviewed, research articles published by BioMed Central are made immediately and freely accessible online and are licensed to allow redistribution and reuse. BioMed Central is part of Springer Science+Business Media, a leading global publisher in the STM sector.

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