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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
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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
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Subscription or licence, payable
to obtain access
• Authors hand over copyrights to
the publisher
Today’s (soon yesterday’s)
print-derived model:
Publisher
Manuscript
©
Author transfers copyright
or exclusive publishing rights
Result:
Free
Use
Only those who can
afford expensive
subscriptions or
licences have access
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 be
used, read, cited, shared,
applied, extended, built-upon
For that, they must be accessible
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?
what we need is:
Unlimited
for
dissemination
Optimal
use
Only
Open Access
delivers that!
Open Access publishing models
therefore 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
Tomorrow’s (today’s at BioMed Central)
online-based model:
Manuscript
Publisher
£450
Author pays small amount of money
or rather, institution pays on author’s behalf
Result:
OPEN
@CCESS
Everyone has access
All use is fair use
BioMed Central re-defines publishing
Selling content
Acquiring the rights
to content, facilitating
peer review, making
web-ready, hosting, and
embedding in the
literature and then
selling the content
Selling 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
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
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Peer Review:
all papers are peer reviewed in the ‘traditional’ way
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Secure Archiving:
all articles are permanently archived in PubMed Central,
INIST (others to be announced)
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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)
Indexing
PubMed
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
arenow
nowalmost
over 400
500
There are
BioMed
Central members,
members, including:
BioMed
Central
including:
– CAUL & CEIRC (Australia) bought 16
– licenses
Karolinska Institute
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– Harvard
Harvard University
University
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– World
CNRS Health Organization
–
France Institute of Health)
– CNRS,
NIH (National
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State of Ohio
– Whole
OhioLink
–
& Eliza
Hall Institute of Medical
– Walter
Max Planck
Society
– Research
University of California (all 9 campuses)
–
Society
– Max
ALL Planck
UK Universities
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of California
campuses)
– University
NHS England
(Public (all
Hospitals)
– 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
natashar:
"I think it
is now clear
that BioMed
Central is
destined to
become one of
the dominant
online
scientific– Online encyclopaedia of medical
publishers. I
feel very
strongly that
this form –ofResearch and review journal
publication
represents an
important
advance in
– 21 titles; review journals
scientific
communication
. It makes
all
– 4 titles; review journals
publications
free to
anyone that
has access to
the internet
Medical Collection
• Images.MD
images
• Critical Care
• Current Reports
• Current Treatment Options
natashar:
"I think it
is now clear
that BioMed
Central is
destined to
become one of
the dominant
online
scientific– Scientific
publishers. I
feel very
strongly that
this form –ofResearch
publication
represents an
important
advance in
– Research
scientific
communication
. It makes
all
– Research
publications
free to
anyone that
has access to
the internet
Biology Collection
• Faculty of 1000
literature awareness tool
• Genome Biology
and review journal
• Breast Cancer Research
and review journal
• Arthritis Research & Therapy
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
Pharmaceutical Collection
• Current Opinion in Drug Discovery
& Development
• Current Opinion in Investigational
Drugs
• Current Opinion in Molecular
Therapeutics
• IDrugs
Thank you!
Marianne Josserand
[email protected]
+44 207 631 9990