Since 2007, Karger Open Access has served the academic community with an increasing number of fully Open Access biomedical journals and articles. Karger Open Access publications are prepared with the same premium quality that has been key to Karger Publishers for over 125 years. As with all Karger publications, this includes rigorous peer review and the highest scientific publishing standards to ensure superior contributions to scholarly literature, coupled with top-quality production, worldwide promotion and a long-term preservation arrangement, among other services. Karger Open Access publications are included in major abstracting and indexing databases to make them easy to find and cite. Most are searchable in PubMed and many already have an impact factor.