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Innovation in Journal Publishing: Some thoughts from BioMed Central . Deborah Kahn Publishing Director, BioMed Central. Some background on BioMed Central. An open access publisher No subscription barriers to research Journal costs covered by Article processing charges
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Innovation in Journal Publishing:Some thoughts from BioMed Central Deborah Kahn Publishing Director, BioMed Central
Some background on BioMed Central • An open access publisher • No subscription barriers to research • Journal costs covered by • Article processing charges • Typically paid by author's funder/institution, sometimes by the author • Direct institutional support of journal
BMC journal portfolio • 199 journals (and growing….) • All peer-reviewed • Archived in PubMed Central, INIST and other international archives • 59 have impact factors, another 24 are tracked for inclusion • Searchable and retrievable • Articles are included in PubMed, Scopus, Google, CrossRef, Scirus • Some journals • Indexed in MEDLINE, Biosis (all biology titles), CAS • Tracked by Thomson-Reuters for Impact Factors
BMC journals are not so different from ‘traditional’ journals • All journals are peer-reviewed • All journals have Editors (either in-house or external) • All journals have Editorial/Advisory Boards
Wide choice of file types • Manuscript • Word, Word Perfect, RTF, PDF, LaTeX, DVI, Publicon • Figures • EPS, PDF, PNG, Word, PPT, TIFF, JPG, BMP, CDX, TGF • Reaction schemes • TGF, CDX • Additional files • Any! • Excellent support for video files • Mini-websites • Zip file containing an index.html file
Final product MathML
Full text Video Mini-websites
Article tracking • Authors can track their manuscript(s) through the publishing process • My BioMed Central combines information on manuscript for which you are an editor, author or peer reviewer • BioMed Central’s integrated system maintains single history files for all manuscripts • Histories for transferred manuscripts are linked
Citations and downloads • “Senior authors believe downloads to be more credible measure of the usefulness of research then traditional citations.” • http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ciber/ciber_2005_survey_final.pdf • “Open access articles receive 50% more full-text accesses and PDF downloads than subscription-access articles.” • Kenneth R. Fulton, PNAS Publisher
Article statistics • Author can track downloads • Via My BioMed Central • receives email x months after publication, detailing download statistics • Highly accessed articles are flagged with • Coming soon … • cited by, Citeulike, blogged
Completing the scientific record Avoiding bias, wasted time and effort; freeing the “dark data” Unlimited space for complete reporting
Access to raw data • Some concerns • Patient privacy • Time constraints • Space constraints • Mistakes identified • Alternative analysis may have commercial value • Loss of intellectual property • Risk of misinterpretation • How to incentivise authors to deposit their data
Continuing discussions • Agree and support universal standards • Data already needs to be fit for analysis • Third party repositories; change journal/publisher • Encourage better research practices • Embargoes and/or access clearance • Who really owns the data? • Subsequent papers subject to same standards
Web 2.0/Social networking • Twitter • Facebook • Blogging • Patient information • Commenting
Thank you deborah.kahn@biomedcentral.com