title: APC: the toll road to continued high quality communication.
abstract: In this article we briefly review the reasons and advantages that underly our publisher's decision to introduce article-processing charges (APC) for manuscripts submitted to Cell Communication and Signaling. The charge is an attempt to develop a new business model for distributing biomedical information and has been accepted in a number of other journals. APCs will enable BioMed Central to continue to provide their excellent service and will help to establish our journal.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Oncologie Virale et Moléculaire, UFR de Biochimie, Université Paris 7 - D, Diderot, 75005 - PARIS, France. perbal@ccr.jussieu.fr
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Perbal