New Open Access site for scientific papers

The organisation that brought us BioMed Central has aggregated its open access journals. So far, BioMed Central (150+ journals), Chemistry Central (5 journals) and PhysMath Central (none yet) are linked here.

BMC has a host of nice addons, some of which require a paid subscription (they have to pay for the hardware and software somehow, I guess)...

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