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Important Notice: BioMed CentralDue to budget constraints and a change in the BioMed Central Institutional Membership pric-ing model, the HAM-TMC Library has not renewed its institutional membership for the fiscalyear 2007. Authors at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and BaylorCollege of Medicine interested in publishing articles in BioMed Central journals, will have topay the required author fees.The HAM-TMC Library continues to strongly support Open Access and maintains its institutionalmembership with Public Library of Science. However, the increase in costs for our BioMed Central institutional membership is so prohibitive that we cannot renew it. 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