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Welcome to Bioscience Education
Service will be unavailable at times during January 2012 while technical work is in progress.
Bioscience Education is an online, bi-annual electronic journal owned and published by the Centre for Bioscience. Its aims are to promote, enhance and disseminate research, good practice and innovation in tertiary level teaching and learning within the biosciences disciplines.
It is intended to encourage and facilitate greater understanding and exchange of ideas through being freely available online, fully archived and peer-reviewed.
The journal publishes a range of articles on tertiary level biosciences education, including peer-reviewed research and practice papers. The journal should be of interest to tertiary level staff and students, upper secondary school staff and employers.
Update Jan 2012: Following the closure of the subject Centre, further information about the journal will appear at www.heacademy.ac.uk/disciplines/biological-sciences in due course. Volume 19 will appear here.
Why Publish in Bioscience Education?
Bioscience Education offers a supportive and author-friendly approach from submission to completion. Other reasons for publishing in Bioscience Education are:
Wide Dissemination
As an open access journal
Bioscience Education is
freely available to anyone with internet access.
Recent research
suggests open access articles get downloaded and cited more frequently.
Rapid Turnaround
As an online journal, Bioscience Education
does not need to
wait for print runs. Once accepted, online publication is normally within 4 weeks.
Relevance
Bioscience Education is a publication primarily for,
and by,
bioscientists and as such publishes articles that are relevant to those teaching
tertiary-level
bioscience. The journal aims to avoid unnecessary [educational] jargon and publish articles
relevant to day-to-day teaching.
Free
It is free to submit articles to Bioscience
Education;
no author, colour or page charges.
Broad Range of Article Types
Bioscience Education publishes a wide range of
article types (e.g. full research papers, essays and
short communications). This broad range of formats enables the journal to publish a full range
of work reflecting different depths of study and a variety of issues.
Supportive Peer-review
The academic editors and reviewers provide authors with an efficient, fair and constructive
review.
For more information on the publication process and guidelines see Instructions for Authors.