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The Open Access Publisher
BioMed Central, an information provider with a different approach
CLIST 18-04-2005
What is BioMed Central?
• Independent online publishing house
• Peer-reviewed research
• Covers all areas of medicine and biology
• Immediate, barrier-free open access
• Reverse the traditional business model
BioMed Central The service provider
• Faculty of 1000 – www.facultyof1000.com• images.MD – www.images.md • Genome Biology – http://genomebiology.com• Arthritis Research – http://arthritis-research.com • B C R – http:// breast-cancer-research.com• Critical Care Forum- http://ccforum.com • C R – www.current-reports.com • C T O – www.treatment-options.com
Agenda
• Traditional publishing model
• BMC Open Access publishing model
• BMC Open Access journals
• Success of BMC journals
• Membership
• Subscription services
Current Publishing model
• Subscription or licence, payable to obtain access
• Authors hand over copyrights to the publisher
PublisherPublisher
Free Use
Manuscript
Today’s (soon yesterday’s) print-derived model:
Only those who can afford expensive subscriptions or
licences have access
Result:
Author transfers copyrightor exclusive publishing rights
©
What’s wrong with it?
• Severe disadvantages of restrictive access
• Political Argument – Pay taxes, have access
• Increasing cost of subscriptions• Increasing number of journals (you can
not have it all!)• Transfer of copyright
To be useful,scientific results need to beused, read, cited, shared,
applied, extended, built-upon
So are they? So are they? So are they? So are they? So are they? So are they? So are they? So are they?
So are they? So are they? So are they? So are they? So are they?
For that, they must be accessible
what we need is:
Unlimiteddissemination
for Optimaluse
OnlyOpen Accessdelivers that!
Open Access publishing modelstherefore deserve the wholehearted support from the science community
What is Open Access?
• The article is universally and freely accessible via the Internet
• The authors retain copyright to their article
• Deposited immediately upon publication, in an internationally recognized open access repository (such as PubMed Central).
How is Open Access achieved at BioMed Central?
• Reversing the business model
• Article processing charge of £450-£835 per published article Waivers are available No colour charges or other ‘hidden’ charges
• Institutional Membership
PublisherPublisherManuscript
Tomorrow’s (today’s at BioMed Central) online-based model:
Everyone has accessAll use is fair use Result:
£450Author pays small amount of money
or rather, institution pays on author’s behalf
OPEN@CCESS
BioMed Central re-defines publishing
Selling content Selling service
Acquiring the rights to content, facilitating peer review, making web-ready, hosting, and embedding in the literature and then selling the content
Leaving the rights with the author, just facilitating peer review, making web-ready, hosting, and embedding in the literature, and making the content freely available
Benefits of publishing in open access journals?
• Free Access =Maximum Visibility
• Higher chances to be cited
• Immediate publication and included in PubMed
• Authors retain copyright
• Substantial save up to institutions and their libraries
• BMC promotes selected articles
Other facts about publishing with BMC
• Peer Review:
all papers are peer reviewed in the ‘traditional’ way
• Secure Archiving:
all articles are permanently archived in PubMed Central, INIST (others to be announced)
• Searchable and retrievable:
all included in PubMed, Scirus, Google, CrossRef, HINARI (some journals are indexed in MEDLINE, Biosis, CAS, an increasing number tracked by ISI for citations)
IndexingPubMed all BMC journals
Medline 45 titles
ISI 18 titles
BIOSIS 24 titles
CAS all BMC journals
Citebase all BMC journals
EMBASE 4 titles
CABI 49 titles
https://www.biomedcentral.com/info/libraries/indexing
BioMed Central’s Journals
• Over 120 open access journals in total in all areas of biology and medicine• Access to all peer-reviewed research content is free
• Highly Selective, general interest: Journal of Biology • Edited by Martin Raff• Free access to outstanding peer-reviewed research in biology
• Selective, high community interest:BMC Medicine and BMC Biology– Publishing peer-reviewed research articles of high quality and broad
interest – Highlighting the best research from the BMC Series
• Sound science, range of interest: – 60 BMC series journals– 60 externally run specialist journals, varying interest and selectivity
Success of BMC journals
General:• Increase of submissions
• 3 fold increase in number of submissions in the past year
Example of experience:• Most successful journal so far: BMC Bioinformatics
• Publishes ~10 articles per month• Rated in top 2 journals in this field by peers• 1 article published in 2002 has 51 citations
Aiming for this achievement in our other journals
Starting a journal with BMC
• How?• Provide a scope statement • Assemble an editorial board – must
demonstrate scientific credibility• Select a journal title• Provide lists of potential authors
• BioMed Central provides a publishing platform, a website and technical expertise for the journals
Examples of new journals published by BioMed Central
BioMed Central’s Membership
• Service offered to institutions to ensure dissemination of research
• Processing charges automatically waived
• 15% discount on BioMed Central’s subscription products
• Customised page on the BMC site
• Annual fee will depend on the total number of graduates, post-graduates, researchers and academics at the institution
There are now almost 400BioMed Central members, including:
– CAUL & CEIRC (Australia) bought 16 licenses– Harvard University – World Health Organization– CNRS, France– Whole State of Ohio– Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research– Max Planck Society– University of California (all campuses)– ALL UK Universities– NHS England (Public Hospitals)
There are now over 500BioMed Central members, including:
– Karolinska Institute– Harvard University – CNRS– NIH (National Institute of Health)– OhioLink– Max Planck Society– University of California (all 9 campuses)– ALL UK Universities– NHS England (Public Hospitals)
How can you support open access?
• Add our URL to your intranet or web pages
• Catalogue our journals
• Advocate our model of publishing to other
researchers/scientists
Medical Collection
• Images.MD– Online encyclopaedia of medical images
• Critical Care– Research and review journal
• Current Reports– 21 titles; review journals
• Current Treatment Options– 4 titles; review journals
natashar:
"I think it is now clear that BioMed Central is destined to become one of the dominant online scientific publishers. I feel very strongly that this form of publication represents an important advance in scientific communication. It makes all publications free to anyone that has access to the internet - opening up access to the third world. In addition, it is superior to print journals because there are no space limits, or limits on number or color figures, along with the ability to include detailed lists of data, etc.
I have published six articles in BioMed Central journals in the last two years. I have been very impressed with the high standards and quality of the reviews that I have received. I have had nothing but positive experiences of BioMed Central."
David Levitt, MD, PhD
Professor of Physiology
University of Minnesota
natashar:
"I think it is now clear that BioMed Central is destined to become one of the dominant online scientific publishers. I feel very strongly that this form of publication represents an important advance in scientific communication. It makes all publications free to anyone that has access to the internet - opening up access to the third world. In addition, it is superior to print journals because there are no space limits, or limits on number or color figures, along with the ability to include detailed lists of data, etc.
I have published six articles in BioMed Central journals in the last two years. I have been very impressed with the high standards and quality of the reviews that I have received. I have had nothing but positive experiences of BioMed Central."
David Levitt, MD, PhD
Professor of Physiology
University of Minnesota
Biology Collection
• Faculty of 1000– Scientific literature awareness tool
• Genome Biology– Research and review journal
• Breast Cancer Research– Research and review journal
• Arthritis Research & Therapy– Research and review journal
natashar:
"I think it is now clear that BioMed Central is destined to become one of the dominant online scientific publishers. I feel very strongly that this form of publication represents an important advance in scientific communication. It makes all publications free to anyone that has access to the internet - opening up access to the third world. In addition, it is superior to print journals because there are no space limits, or limits on number or color figures, along with the ability to include detailed lists of data, etc.
I have published six articles in BioMed Central journals in the last two years. I have been very impressed with the high standards and quality of the reviews that I have received. I have had nothing but positive experiences of BioMed Central."
David Levitt, MD, PhD
Professor of Physiology
University of Minnesota
natashar:
"I think it is now clear that BioMed Central is destined to become one of the dominant online scientific publishers. I feel very strongly that this form of publication represents an important advance in scientific communication. It makes all publications free to anyone that has access to the internet - opening up access to the third world. In addition, it is superior to print journals because there are no space limits, or limits on number or color figures, along with the ability to include detailed lists of data, etc.
I have published six articles in BioMed Central journals in the last two years. I have been very impressed with the high standards and quality of the reviews that I have received. I have had nothing but positive experiences of BioMed Central."
David Levitt, MD, PhD
Professor of Physiology
University of Minnesota
Pharmaceutical Collection
• Current Opinion in Drug Discovery & Development
• Current Opinion in Investigational Drugs
• Current Opinion in Molecular Therapeutics
• IDrugs
natashar:
"I think it is now clear that BioMed Central is destined to become one of the dominant online scientific publishers. I feel very strongly that this form of publication represents an important advance in scientific communication. It makes all publications free to anyone that has access to the internet - opening up access to the third world. In addition, it is superior to print journals because there are no space limits, or limits on number or color figures, along with the ability to include detailed lists of data, etc.
I have published six articles in BioMed Central journals in the last two years. I have been very impressed with the high standards and quality of the reviews that I have received. I have had nothing but positive experiences of BioMed Central."
David Levitt, MD, PhD
Professor of Physiology
University of Minnesota
natashar:
"I think it is now clear that BioMed Central is destined to become one of the dominant online scientific publishers. I feel very strongly that this form of publication represents an important advance in scientific communication. It makes all publications free to anyone that has access to the internet - opening up access to the third world. In addition, it is superior to print journals because there are no space limits, or limits on number or color figures, along with the ability to include detailed lists of data, etc.
I have published six articles in BioMed Central journals in the last two years. I have been very impressed with the high standards and quality of the reviews that I have received. I have had nothing but positive experiences of BioMed Central."
David Levitt, MD, PhD
Professor of Physiology
University of Minnesota
