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Developments in electronic publishing Tony Delamothe web editor bmj

Developments in electronic publishing Tony Delamothe web editor bmj.com. tdelamothe@bmj.com. What’s so great about the web ? (I). Speed Spread Space (infinite) Storage Searchability Savings. Readership: > doubled in 4 years. paper (120 000) electronic (140 000). Overlap

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Developments in electronic publishing Tony Delamothe web editor bmj

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  1. Developments in electronic publishing Tony Delamothe web editor bmj.com tdelamothe@bmj.com

  2. What’s so great about the web ? (I) • Speed • Spread • Space (infinite) • Storage • Searchability • Savings

  3. Readership: > doubled in 4 years paper (120 000)electronic (140 000) Overlap 16 000

  4. What’s so great about the web ? (2) • Links • Interactivity • Multimedia • Easy transactions

  5. What’s so great about paper ? • Legibility • Portability • Durability • Cost

  6. “Despite the availability of the electronic journal, I want to keep receiving the paper journal” (BMA members, 2001)

  7. How this plays out: bmj.com • Rapid responses • ELPS (electronic long; paper short) • Publishing asap • Interactivity • Online submission and peer review

  8. The common trajectory electronic paper

  9. How the earth is moving beneath paper journals • Article content and appearance • Article publication • Uncoupling quality control and distribution

  10. Article content and appearance • Richer • Links (including forward citation) • Pre-and post publication peer review • Multimedia

  11. Article publication • Ahead of print • Oblivious to print (Underlying shift: from issue level to article level publication)

  12. Uncoupling quality control from distribution The way we were…. • Editorial office manuscripts journal QUALITY CONTROL DISTRIBUTION

  13. The way we will become Editorial office Server Peer reviewed article manuscripts QUALITY CONTROL DISTRIBUTION

  14. “It’s easy to say what would be the ideal online resource for scholars and scientists: all papers in all fields, systematically interconnected, effortlessly accessible and rationally navigable, from any researcher’s desk, worldwide for free.” - Steve Harnard

  15. “free access to the scientific literature would be a phenomenal advance in scientific publishing - the greatest in our lifetime” -Nick Cozzarelli

  16. A few questions • What do you think about the new publishing initiatives? • What’s going to happen to publishers? • What’s going to happen to libraries?

  17. The navigator function -addressing the information paradox? Increasing synthesis Primary research articles

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