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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
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