Chemistry Central was a scientific publisher specializing in open access publications in chemistry. It was established on August 22, 2006 and was operated by

BioMed Central 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 ...

. Along with BioMed Central and the now-defunct

PhysMath Central PhysMath Central was an imprint of Springer Science+Business Media, publishing online open-access scientific journals in physics and mathematics and operated by BioMed Central. It was active from 2007 until 2011. Journals published were: * ''P ...

, Chemistry Central was part of "Open Access Central", representing

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and

medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pr ...

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

and

maths Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

, and chemistry, respectively. When

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acquired the BioMed Central Group in 2008, Chemistry Central was transferred with it. At the end of 2015 the Chemistry Central brand was retired, with the existing journals transferring to the SpringerOpen portfolio. In January 2019, ''Chemistry Central Journal'' was renamed ''BMC Chemistry'' and brought within the BMC Series journals.

Publications

* '' Journal of Cheminformatics'' * ''Chemistry Central Journal'' * ''Journal of Systems Chemistry'' * ''Geochemical Transactions'' * ''Heritage Science'' * ''Sustainable Chemical Processes'' * ''Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture''

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* Open access publishers Springer Science+Business Media imprints Academic publishing companies {{publisher-stub