Journal of Biologyis celebrating itsfifth birthday with the publication of aneditorial,reviewing the achievements of the journalin
bringing excellence to open access publishing.
As BioMed Central‘s premier
biology journal,Journal of Biologyhaspublished a number of exceptionalresearch
articles, each with anaccompanyingminireview.

Theimpact and importance of the research
published inJournal of Biologyisdemonstrated by thetens of
thousands of downloadsand hundreds of
citations that many of the research articles have received since publication
(see theeditorialfor more details).

This milestone also provides
the opportunity to lookto the
future.Over the coming months
Journal of Biologywill be broadening its horizons beyond the high
calibre research published in the journal to also include minireviews of the
very best biological research from other BioMed Central open access
journals.

If
you have an paper of broad importance and general interest,submit it toJournal of Biology.

Penelope
Webb, Editor
Journal of Biology