Scholarly Video Journals to Increase Productivity in Medical Research and Education

Moshe Pritsker, Ph.D.

CEO, co-founder

JoVE

Productivity in medical research and education

Do new research Learn technology

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Traditional Scientific Article

Position the metaphase spindle at 3 o’clock and hold it with holding pipette. Apply piezo pulses to penetrate the zona pellucida. Touch the metaphase plate with the enucleation pipette. Aspirate the spindle and withdraw the pipette.

What does it say???

How can it be used for research or teaching???

New approach: publish science using video online

Text doesn’t work?

Show it in video!

Create new type of science journal:

video journal

JoVE video article

Niiyama, H., Huang, N. F., Rollins, M. D., Cooke, J. P., Murine Model of Hindlimb Ischemia http://www.jove.com/details.stp?id=1035 doi: 10.3791/1035. J Vis Exp. 23 (2009).

January 2009: publishedMarch 2012: unique views – 63,000; citations in other journals – 24.

JoVE summary – April 2013

Published 74 montly issues, >2,000 video-articles since Oct. 2006

First video journal indexed in PubMed and Medline

Current rate of publication: 50 video-articles per month across 5 sections:

JoVEJoVE NeuroscienceJoVE Immunology and InfectionJoVE BioengineeringJoVE Translational and Clinical Medicine

JoVE Applied PhysicsJoVE Chemistry

JoVE Behavior (from June 2013)JoVE Environment (from September 2013)

Usage growth – web traffic

• 300,000 unique visitors per month• 80% from academic instituitions

Subscription growth

Subscribers: universities, colleges and pharma/biotech companies

Institutional Subscribers

May 2013: ~500 institutions subscribed. Examples:

USA: Harvard, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley, NIH, ….

Canada: McGill, Toronto, Calgary, Queens, Guelph, Waterloo, …

UK: Edinburgh, Manchester, Leicester, Kings College, …

Germany: Max Planck Institute, MDC Berlin, U. Frankfurt, ….

Sweden: Karolinska Institute, Uppsala, Chalmers, University of Agriculture, ….

Israel: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Technion, Weizmann Institute, ….

Australia: Newcastle, Queensland, Melbourne, New South Wales, …

Taiwan: National Taiwan University, Academica Sinica, National Health Research, …

Korea: Yonsei, KAIST, Korean Institute of Science and Technology

Example : Harvard & Harvard Medical School2,000 views per month

Example: Brigham and Women’s Hospital450 views per month

How video publication works -we film your video in your lab

Videographer Network

Countries covered: USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Israel, Japan and Australia

What users say

Dr. Maria Toledo-Rodriguez, University of Nottingham

By having the video protocol ... anybody can quickly learn the technique whenever it is convenient for her/him saving them lots of time, money and frustrations.

Dr. Rich Condit, University of Florida

You can't figure out how to do this stuff just from reading the literature, you have to have somebody show you ... this is amazing!

Lalitha Chandrasekher, PhD student, Georgetown University

Thank you for creating and developing such an astounding resource for scientists! This is truly going to rapidly advance progress in all fields of research and the potential applications are endless.

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