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Aims and scope

Bioresources and Bioprocessing (BIOB) is a peer-reviewed open access journal published under the brand SpringerOpen. BIOB aims at providing an international academic platform for exchanging views on and promoting research to support bioresource development, processing and utilization in a sustainable manner. As an application-oriented research journal, BIOB covers not only the application and management of bioresource technology but also the design and development of bioprocesses that will lead to new and sustainable production processes.

BIOB publishes original and review articles on most topics relating to bioresource and bioprocess engineering, including:

Biochemical and microbiological engineering
Biocatalysis and biotransformation
Biosynthesis and metabolic engineering
Bioprocess and biosystems engineering
Bioenergy and biorefinery
Cell culture and biomedical engineering
Food, agricultural and marine biotechnology
Bioseparation and biopurification engineering
Bioremediation and environmental biotechnology

Benefits of publishing with SpringerOpen

High visibility

Bioresources and Bioprocessing's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience.

Speed of publication

Bioresources and Bioprocessing offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article will then be available through Bioresources and Bioprocessing and SpringerOpen.

Flexibility

Online publication in Bioresources and Bioprocessing gives you the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).

Promotion and press coverage

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Copyright

Authors of articles published in Bioresources and Bioprocessing retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work (for further details, see the copyright and license agreement).

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Open access

All articles published by the Bioresources and Bioprocessing are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here.

As authors of articles published in the Bioresources and Bioprocessing you are the copyright holders of your article and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate your article, according to the SpringerOpen copyright and license agreement.

For those of you who are US government employees or are prevented from being copyright holders for similar reasons, SpringerOpen can accommodate non-standard copyright lines. Please contact us if further information is needed.

Article-processing charges

Open access publishing is not without costs. Bioresources and Bioprocessing therefore levies an article-processing charge of £970.00/$1420.00/€1155.00 for each article accepted for publication, plus VAT or local taxes where applicable. The APC is determined at the date of acceptance.

If the corresponding author's institution participates in our open access membership program, some or all of the publication cost may be covered (more details available on the membership page). We routinely waive charges for authors from low-income countries. For other countries, article-processing charge waivers or discounts are granted on a case-by-case basis to authors with insufficient funds. Authors can request a waiver or discount during the submission process. For further details, see our article-processing charge page.

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Sponsorship Information

Bioresources and Bioprocessing is sponsored by State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering. Under this sponsorship agreement, the institution covers 20% of APCs for all Research articles and 60% of APCs for all Review articles accepted for publication, so authors will pay a reduced article-processing charge. Please select the State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering as the sponsoring partner during the APC payment process to benefit from this sponsorship.

Indexing services

Bioresources and Bioprocessing is indexed in the following services:

SCOPUS
Science Citation Index Expanded
Google Scholar
CNKI
DOAJ
EBSCO Discovery Service
EBSCO TOC Premier
OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
ProQuest Biological Science Database
ProQuest Materials Science & Engineering Database
ProQuest Natural Science Collection
ProQuest SciTech Premium Collection
ProQuest Technology Collection
ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
ProQuest-ExLibris Summon

The full text of all articles is deposited in digital archives around the world to guarantee long-term digital preservation. You can also access all articles published by BioMed Central on SpringerLink.We are working closely with relevant indexing services including PubMed Central and Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) to ensure that articles published in Bioresources and Bioprocessing will be available in their databases when appropriate.

Peer-review policy

Peer-review is the system used to assess the quality of a manuscript before it is published. Independent researchers in the relevant research area assess submitted manuscripts for originality, validity and significance to help editors determine whether the manuscript should be published in their journal. You can read more about the peer-review process here.

Bioresources and Bioprocessing operates a single-blind peer-review system, where the reviewers are aware of the names and affiliations of the authors, but the reviewer reports provided to authors are anonymous Publication of research articles by Bioresources and Bioprocessing is dependent primarily on their scientific validity and coherence as judged by our external expert editors and/or peer reviewers, who will also assess whether the writing is comprehensible and whether the work represents a useful contribution to the field.

Submitted manuscripts will generally be reviewed by two to three experts who will be asked to evaluate whether the manuscript is scientifically sound and coherent, whether it duplicates already published work, and whether or not the manuscript is sufficiently clear for publication. Reviewers will also be asked to indicate how interesting and significant the research is. The Editors will reach a decision based on these reports and, where necessary, they will consult with members of the Editorial Board.

Editorial policies

All manuscripts submitted to Bioresources and Bioprocessing should adhere to SpringerOpen's editorial policies.

Once your article is accepted, it will be processed by production and published shortly afterwards. In some cases, articles may be held for a short period of time prior to publication. If you have any concerns or particular requirements please contact the Journal.

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Appeals and complaints

Authors who wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint should follow the procedure outlined in the BMC Editorial Policies .