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OPEN ACCESS
To anyone, anywhere, anytime
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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
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For everybody in-between?
For the ‘Harvards’?
For the ‘Have-nots’?
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Integrated
The literature: as it should be
Available
After Les Carr, Southampton University
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The literature: as it is for the ‘Harvards’
After Les Carr, Southampton University
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And for the ‘Have-nots’
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How do we get
From here To here
For everyone
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One can publish a journal by printing it and sending it through the mail, but since the Internet, this is not necessary anymore
One can ‘seamlessly’ link references in online articles to other online articles that
are freely available in full-text: every researcher’s dream
Online journals can be distributed much faster and incomparably more widely than
print journals, transforming science communication
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So why should online journals be shoe-horned into the business models that were devised for
print?
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To be useful,scientific results need to beused, read, cited, shared,
applied, extended, built-upon
Print-derived models:
Unlimiteddissemination
Optimaluse
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Open Access online publishing models will make published scientific results
optimally useful
Open Accessin print
Open Access
on Internet
Open Access therefore deserves the wholehearted support from the
science community
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1. The article is universally and freely accessible via the Internet, in an easily readable format and deposited immediately upon publication, without embargo, in an agreed format - current preference is XML with a declared DTD - in at least one widely and internationally recognised open access repository (such as PubMed Central).
2. The author(s) or copyright owner(s) irrevocably grant(s) to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate the research article in its entirety or in part, in any format or medium, provided that no substantive errors are introduced in the process, proper attribution of authorship and correct citation details are given, and that the bibliographic details are not changed. If the article is reproduced or disseminated in part, this must be clearly and unequivocally indicated.
What is Open Access?
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How is Open Access paid for?
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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
©
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Acquiring the rights to content, facilitating peer review, making web-ready, hosting, and embedding in the literature and then selling the content
BioMed Central re-defines publishing
Selling content
Selling a service
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 in Open Access
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PublisherPublisherManuscript
Tomorrow’s (today’s at BioMed Central) online-based model:
Everyone has accessAll use is fair use
Result:
$Author pays small amount of money
or rather, institution pays on author’s behalf
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Open Access at BioMed Central
All research articles in any of the journals published by BioMed Central are available on line in open access as defined earlier
Authors (their institutions) pay a small amount for ‘processing’ the article:
-organising peer-review, -formatting and coding in XML for rendering in
web-friendly HTML, -formatting in PDF for easy downloading and
printing, -linking and embedding in the literature via
PubMed, CrossRef, ISI and others, -depositing in secure archives like PubMed
Central and others, -hosting on the BioMed Central site
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Authors-Vastly improved visibility; high chance of being cited; may be
posted on any web site the author chooses; may be printed and included in course packs
Users-No need to worry whether the library has the journal; no
need to access only via the institutional network
Libraries/Institutions-Lower cost: $500 at input pays for it all; compare this with
the current $3000-5000 aggregate publisher turnover per article, which the libraries collectively pay
General advantages of Open Access
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Embedding in science literatureReferences linked via CrossRefReferences tracked by ISI
PublicityPress-releases for articles suitable for wider, lay audiences
InformationAuthor has full access to download statistics
SpeedSubmission, review, and publication entirely electronicPublication immediately upon acceptanceListed without delay in PubMed and deposited without embargo in PubMed Central and other secure archives
Extra advantages at BioMed Central
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Article Processing Charge (APC)$500 per published article
Institutional MembershipAmount depends on the size of the biomedical research staff and students at the institution; starts at $1500
WaiversAutomatic for authors from a member institutionAvailable on request for authors unable to pay, e.g. from developing countries
Cost of Open Access at BioMed Central
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Even if exactly the same amount of money were to be spent on open access business models as is currently being spent on subscriptions and access licences in the conventional model, for the benefits of open access alone it would be worth moving to new models.
The benefits would be smaller for the Harvards than for the Have-nots, to be sure, but even for the Harvards the benefits of open access are substantial.
The fact that an open access model doesn't have to cost nearly as much as the conventional model (for a start, all costs and efforts to keep users out could be scrapped), is a welcome side-effect to all but conventional publishers, but not the crux of the matter, at least not for scientists and scholars.
Observation re Cost of Open Access
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Peer Review takes away that risk
All articles published in BioMed Central journals have been strictly peer-reviewed. Peer-reviewers do not know if the author will pay, the institution will pay, or if the charges will be waived. Payment is only required once the article is accepted.
Author pays? Institution pays?Risk of vanity publishing?
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Biology journals
A full list can be found here:www.biomedcentral.com/browse/biology/
Medicine journals
A full list can be found here:
www.biomedcentral.com/browse/medicine/
The BioMed Central journals
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deserves support from the whole science community
Because to be useful, scientific results need to be used, read,
cited, shared, applied, extended, built-upon
And for that, they need to be accessible
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AuthorsSubmit your articles to Open Access journals
UsersVisit and cite Open Access journals
Librarians
– Take up institutional membership
– Add our URL to your intranet or web pagesFunding bodies and tenure committees
Recognise Open Access research papers and the ‘payment-at-input’ model
All of the aboveAdvocate Open Access
How can you support Open Access?
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Submissions: www.biomedcentral.com/info/publishing_adv.asp
Email Editorial Director Peter Newmark: [email protected]
Institutional Membership: www.biomedcentral.com/info/instmembership.asp
Email Membership Director Becky Fishman: [email protected]
General Marketing: www.biomedcentral.com/libraries/Email Marketing Director Natasha Robshaw: [email protected]
General Publishing: www.biomedcentral.comEmail Publisher Jan Velterop: [email protected]
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