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Email address changes for biomedcentral.com alerts

Currently, our alerts system for biomedcentral.com does not yet have feature where you will be able to change your email address directly.

If you would like to change your email address; you will first need to unsubscribe your current email address and then subscribe to the new one. Please follow the instructions listed below:


To receive alerts to different email address, you will need to register the address:

  • Access BMC page and click the Register tab.
  • Enter requested information.
  • Tick the boxes relevant to your general mailings preferences and click on Register.
  • You will receive an automated email from BioMed Central. Open the email and click on the given link to validate your registration. (Please note: The link will expire after 48 hours.)
  • Complete details and subject interests on the Profile Page and save your changes.
  • Click on the Email Alerts tab to set up journal specific alerts.
  • Select the relevant journal from the drop down list, and the frequency of alerts and click Add article alert.


If you wish to unsubscribe a previous email address, please do the following (you will need access to the email account in order to proceed):

  • Go to the BioMed Central login page, enter the email address in the relevant field and click Login.
  • You will receive an automated email from BioMed Central. Open the email and click on the given link to validate your registration (Please note: The link will expire after 48 hours.)
  • Click on the Email alerts tab, un-tick any newsletters/third party emails which are ticked.
  • Click on the Unsubscribe button beside each of the listed article alerts.

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