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Open Access Publishing: BioMed Central’s experience Matthew Cockerill Publisher, BioMed Central

Explore BioMed Central's success in open access publishing, financial model, and how funder policies can accelerate OA adoption. Learn about top-quality journals and the growth of OA in specific subject areas.

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Open Access Publishing: BioMed Central’s experience Matthew Cockerill Publisher, BioMed Central

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  1. Open Access Publishing:BioMed Central’s experience Matthew CockerillPublisher, BioMed Central EC conference on scientific publishing, Brussels, 15-16th Feb 2007

  2. Open access publishing works!

  3. About BioMed Central • Commercial open access publisher • Launched first open access journals in 2000 • Now publish >160 OA titles • >22,000 peer-reviewed OA articles published • All research articles published under Creative Commons licence, allowing freedom to reuse/redistribute

  4. BioMed Central’s business model • Costs covered by Article Processing Charge (APC) • APC varies by journal - typically around €1000 • Institutions receive APC discount in return for bulk payment (Institutional Membership)

  5. Measures of success • Quantity • Quality • Finance

  6. 1. Quantity

  7. Quarterly article submissions to BioMed Central OA journals

  8. Specific subject areas

  9. Malaria Journal home page

  10. Where are papers on malaria published ? Am J Trop Med Hyg (112/year) Trop Med Int Health (59) Mol Biol Parasit (57) Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (54) Infect Immunity (49) Parasitol Today/Trends (45) J Inf Dis (38) Lancet (37) Acta Trop (30) 27% of all papers are published in a small numbers of journals, each publishing regularly over 30 papers per annum

  11. Where are papers on malaria published ? Am J Trop Med Hyg (112/year) Trop Med Int Health (59) Mol Biol Parasit (57) Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (54) Infect Immunity (49) Parasitol Today/Trends (45) J Inf Dis (38) Lancet (37) Acta Trop (30) Malaria Journal 127 63 47 50 27% of all papers are published in a small numbers of journals, each publishing regularly over 30 papers per annum

  12. Open access journal growth in: Bioinformatics/Genomics/Systems Biology

  13. Open access journal growth in: Bioinformatics/Genomics/Systems Biology

  14. Open access journal growth in: Bioinformatics/Genomics/Systems Biology

  15. 2. Quality

  16. High impact journals Just some examples of BioMed Central journals that have already achieved excellent Impact Factors for their fields

  17. 2006 BioMed Central Research Award for Medicine A population-based study of human immunodeficiency virus in south India reveals major differences from sentinel surveillance-based estimatesDandona L, Lakshmi V, Sudha T, Kumar GA, Dandona RBMC Medicine 2006, 4:31 (13 December 2006)

  18. 3. Finance

  19. BioMed Central Finances • Average face-value of Article Processing Charge: circa €1000 • Realized income per article, after discounts and waivers: circa €800 • Based on current trends, we expect to be able to announce break-even before the end of 2007

  20. Finances (contd.) • Academic community currently spends vast sums on subscription journals • Funding made available for OA publication is still very small • This makes OA publication more difficult than it needs to be • Institutions and funders can help speed uptake of OA by ensuring funds are available for OA publication

  21. Funder open access policies: the role of OA archives and OA journals

  22. OA archives OA publishing Immediately enforceable Much better than nothing Not a full solution in themselves Provides a more complete long term solution Works well with archives Won’t happen overnight OA archives and OA publishing - complementary approaches

  23. Why are OA archives and OA publishing such a good fit? • The success of Open Access publishing makes the argument that repositories threaten subscriptions moot • Open Access journals demonstrate that the peer-review system: • does not depend on subscription barriers • is not threatened by open access repositories

  24. Why should funders and govts take active steps to encourage OA? • Open access will transform science • Publications are the building blocks for future research • Investment required to deliver full open access is just 1-2% of research spend • Open access publication can ultimately deliver savings,via increased market efficiency

  25. What can funders and govts do to facilitate move to Open Access? • Wellcome Trust and CERN open access policies offer good model • Mandatory deposit in an open access archive • Clear preference for open access publication • Funds made available to ensure that open access publication choice is available to authors

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