Whois & Analysis for omicsonline.com

OMICS Publishing Group is a publisher of open access journals that is widely regarded as predatory.

It issued its first publication in 2008.

According to a 2012 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about 60 percent of the group's 200 journals had never actually published anything.

Open access (OA) journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself." They remove price barriers (e.g. subscription, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) and most permission barriers (e.g. copyright and licensing restrictions).

While open access journals are freely available to the reader, there are still costs associated with the publication and production of such journals.

Some are subsidized, and some require payment on behalf of the author.

Biomedical research (or experimental medicine) is in general simply known as medical research.

It is the basic research (also called bench science or bench research), applied research, or translational research conducted to aid and support the development of knowledge in the field of medicine.

Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.

An academic conference or symposium is a for researchers (not necessarily academics) to present and discuss their work.

Together with academic or scientific journals, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between researchers.