Open Access and

Open Peer ReviewFiona Godlee

Editorial Director for Medicine

BioMed Central

Open access

“Is this a starry eyed egalitarian spoof, a communist plot, or is it ivory tower academics on the loose?”

Pieter Bolman, New York

“Sera que se trata de piada egalitaria ingenua, uma trama comunista, ou academicos soltos numa torre de marfim?”

What do our consumers want?

Authors want • Wide dissemination

Users want • Unrestricted access

Os autores querem• Divulgacao ampla

Os usuarios querem• Acesso irrestrito

But they also want peer review

Authors want• Stamp of approval • Face saving

Users want • Guarantee of quality• Filtering• Context setting

Os autores querem • O selo de aprovacao• Salvar as aparencias

Os usuarios querem• Garantia de qualidade• Selecao• Colocacao no contexto

The cost of peer review

Reviewer databaseStaff timeCorrespondencePayment to reviewers

TOTAL

Fletcher and Fletcher, Peer Review in Health Sciences, BMJPG 1999

% of total budget

<0.1-1.9

1.3-1.9

<0.1-2.6

0.0-0.8

2.6-7.5

Who pays for peer review?

• Page charges

• Government grants

• Society members

• Commercial models

• Cobranca de custo de paginas

• Auxilios governamentais

• Membros das sociedades

• Modelos comerciais

BMC’s role in LDCs

• Open access• Lower barrier to entry• Matching standard of

reviewer to paper• Technical support for

independent journals• High visibility

 

• Acesso aberto• Uma barreira menor

contra a publicacao• Parear o nivel do

revisor com o trabalho• Apoio tecnico para

revistas independentes• Alta visibilidade

The challenge of open access

• How to fund peer review

• How to make peer review as efficient and inexpensive as possible

• Como pagar pela revisao por pares

• Como fazer com que a revisao por pares seja o mais eficiente e menos cara possivel

biomedcentral.com

What is BioMed Central?

• A peer review entity

• An umbrella site for

independent biomedical journals

• A site providing tools for authors and users

• Uma entidade que realiza revisao por pares

• Um sitio hospedeiro para revistas biomedicas independentes

• Um sitio que fornece ferramentas para os autores e usuarios

Key principles

• Free access to primary science

• Authors retain copyright

• Immediate posting on PubMed Central

• Bias towards publication

• Acesso livre a toda a ciencia primaria

• O “copyright” permanece com o autor

• Apoia o PubMed Central

• Tendencia a favorecer a publicacao

Peer review at BioMed Central

• Fast, but not automated

• Open • Conflicts of interest

declared• Exchange of reviews• Match standard of

paper to reviewer

• Rapida, mas nao automatizada

• Aberta• Solicitacao de

declaracao de conflito de interesses

• Revisoes cruzadas• Parear o nivel do

trabalho com o revisor

Filters/Navigation/Context

• Searching tools

• Abstracting services

• Expert selections

• Criteria based selections

• Help with writing and presenting papers

• Statistical tools

• Reviews and commentaries

• Ferramentas para localizacao de informacao

• Sinopses dos trabalhos• Selecao de revisores

altamente qualificados• Selecao baseada em

criterios• Assistencia com a redacao e

apresentacao dos trabalhos• Ferramentas estatisticas• Revisoes e comentarios

How will BMC get papers?

• Editorial directorate and advisors

• Lobby granting bodies and institutions

• Market to authors publishing in low impact journals

• Hosting of independent journals

• Diretorio editorial e de consultores

• Persuadir as agencias de financiamento e as instituicoes

• Persuadir os autores que publicam em revistas de baixo impacto

• Hospedar revistas independentes

How will BMC make money?

• Advertising • Subscriptions (for

tools and reviews)• Reduce costs of PR

• Publicidade• Assinaturas (a respeito

das ferramentas e das revisoes)

• Reduzir os custos da revisao por pares

Open Peer Review

A new vision for peer review

• Visible• Accountable• Rewarded• Mentoring• On going

WAME

World Association of Medical Editors

wame.org