Creating a New ‘Gratis Open Access’ Family Medicine Research Journal

1. Creating a New ‘Gratis Open Access’ Family Medicine Research Journal Laura A. McLellan, MLS Case Western Reserve University Family Medicine Research Division laura.mclellan@case.edu

2. AAFP 1997 “Plan to Enhance Family Practice Research”

4. Discontinued

5. More ads Less original research

6. Creation of the 501(3)(c) Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.

7. Author Charges Industry- funded Supplements Commercial Advertising ‘Gratis’ Open Access

8. Gratis vs. Libre = Free of charge vs. Free of restrictions http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/08-02-08.htm

9. 2002-3 Annals Team Editor Kurt C. Stange, MD PhD Senior Associate Editor William R. Phillips, MD MPH Associate Editors Louise S. Acheson, MD Benjamin F. Crabtree, PhD Statistical Editor Stephen J. Zyzanski, PhD Consulting Editor William L. Miller, MD MA Reflections Editor & Editorial Coordinator Robin S. Gotler, MA Editorial Assistant Laura A. McLellan, MLS AAFP Publications Division Managing Editor Claire Zimmerman Editorial Assistant Elizabeth Anderson, MLS Editorial Director (all AAFP pubs.) Bob Edsall Publisher(all AAFP pubs.) Joetta Melton

10. 2003 Editorial Board27 members on initial advisory (not review) board Expertise: Family Medicine Internal Medicine Pediatrics Nursing Public Health Sociology Epidemiology Psychology Social Science Patient Advocacy Nation: United States Canada United Kingdom South Africa Setting: Practice Education Policy CBPR PBRN

11. Family Medicine Psychology Epidemiology Health Services Research Internal Medicine Pediatrics Pharmacology Nursing Social Science Education Sociology Statistics Public Health United States Canada United Kingdom Netherlands New Zealand 2003 Peer Reviewers: (n  600) Largest categories by primary discipline and country

12. Receive online Resubmit if needed Review ProcessAnnals of Family Medicine Review for Completeness Editors’ conference Decision letter Editor review Draft decision letter Reject Associate editor review Submit elsewhere (or challenge) Peer review Revise & resubmit Accept

13. Acceptance Review ProcessAnnals of Family Medicine Recommend discussants Copy editing & layout Queries & proofs Return in < 48 hrs Publish online & in print Participate in online discussion

14. 2002 website

15. Mission: The Annals of Family Medicine is dedicated to advancing knowledge essential to understanding and improving health and primary care. The Annals supports a learning community of those who generate and use information about health and generalist health care.

16. Articles Original Research: • Clinical, biomedical, behavioral, and social sciences • Health services, health care systems, and policy. Methodology: • Articles that propose new methods • Extend existing methods • Provide new approaches to integrating methods for primary care research.

17. Articles Systematic Reviews: • Selected systematic reviews that build on what is known to advance theory or methods, or to identify new research directions • Meta-analyses and economic and decision analyses that use rigorous methods to synthesize information to answer questions of importance to health and primary health care • Reviews should describe explicit methods to define questions, identify current knowledge, and propose new work.

18. Articles Theory: • Explore problems unique to generalist practice • Develop models of how family medicine and primary care can best meet important health care needs of individuals, families, or communities • At the level of illness, individual, community, patient-clinician interaction, generalist/specialist interface, practice organization, or health care system • New models should be tied to existing theory and grounded in research or other experience • Work that transcends disciplinary boundaries is encouraged.

19. Articles Essays (“Reflections”): • Reflections of clinicians, scientists, patients, families, health care leaders, and policy makers • Stories of personal experience • Persuasive essays that present a point of view or course of action • Explanatory essays that share information, describe a topic, or offer a definition.

20. Articles Special Reports: • Important cutting-edge topics that do not fit into other article categories • Topics relevant to primary care and improving health or health care Editorials: • Editorials are published only in response to specific invitations from the editors

21. Letters TRACK eLetters • TRACK = Topical Response to the Annals Community of Knowledge • Respond to published articles • Replaces letters to the editor • Readers, authors, others

22. Annals does NOT publish: • Case reports • Clinical updates • Expert reviews • Reviews of books or software • Fiction or poetry

23. Volume 1, Issue 1 May/June 2003

24. 2003 website Current issueSep/Oct 2003 Past issuesMay/June 2003- Sep/Oct 2003 Search the Annals Online DiscussionsDiscussion of articlesDiscussion of other topics Employment Opportunities

26. Indexing Feb 2004 MEDLINE acceptance July 2004 ISI Web of Science/SCI/Current Contents Aug 2004 EMBASE Jan 2005 PsychINFO June 2006 PubMed Central (retrospective to v1i1) June 2007 First inclusion in Journal Citation Reports (2006 edition)

27. 2007 Sponsors of the 501(3)(c) Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.

28. Author Charges Industry- funded Supplements Commercial Advertising ‘Gratis’ Open Access

29. 2008 website Current issueMay/June 2008 The Issue In Brief Journal Club Past issuesMay/June 2003- Mar/Apr 2008 Search the Annals Discussion of articles Employment Opportunities The Annals of Family Medicine is indexed in the MEDLINE, MEDLARS, Science Citation Index Expanded, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, PsycINFO, EMBASE, and CINAHL databases. The Annals deposits all published content in PubMed Central. Online ISSN: 1544-1717     Print ISSN: 1544-1709

30. Manuscripts 2003 – 2012 • Submission Trend

31. Online Readership Computers in 180+ countries/top-level domains have connected to AnnFamMed.org *Numbers exclude bot accesses

32. Monthly AccessesMay 2003 – Jan 2013

33. eLetters DirectoryMay 30, 2003 – Dec 31, 2012 2,426 total eLetters published

34. Journal Citation Reports 2011 Impact Factor: 5.35 Top 20 of general/internal medicine category: #14 out of 153 Primary health care category: #1 of 14 Immediacy Index: 2.43 Measures how soon articles are cited after publication: #8 of 153 Article Influence Score: 2.065 Ratio of citation influence to size of article contribution: #11 of 153

35. 2012 Editorial Advisory Board34 members Expertise/Role: Family Medicine Internal Medicine Pediatrics Public Health Epidemiology Psychology Social Science Physician Assistant Medical Librarian Patient Medical Student Family Med. Resident Nation: United States Canada United Kingdom South Africa Australia The Netherlands

36. 2013 Annals Team Editor Kurt C. Stange, MD PhD Senior Associate Editor William R. Phillips, MD MPH Associate Editors Louise S. Acheson, MD Bijal Balasubramanian, MBBS PhD Elizabeth A. Bayliss, MD MSPH Deborah J. Cohen, PhD Robert L. Ferrer, MD MPH John J. Frey III, MD James M. Gill, MD MPH Robert L. Williams, MD MPH Consulting Editor Paul A. Nutting, MD MSPH Consulting Statistical Editor Stephen J. Zyzanski, PhD Reflections Editor & Ed. Coord. Robin S. Gotler, MA Editorial Assistant Laura A. McLellan, MLS AAFP Publications Division Managing Editor Claire Zimmerman Editorial Assistant Elizabeth Anderson, MLS Publisher(all AAFP pubs.) Stephanie Hanaway

37. Volume 11, Issue 2 Mar/Apr 2013

39. New Features: RSS and Collected PapersProposed Autumn 2007Implemented Winter 2008-9 RSS Feeds • Hundreds $$ for initial set-up • Hundreds $$ for yearly maintenance Collected Papers: Article categories • Thousands $$$ for initial set-up • Hundreds $$ for yearly maintenance Collected Papers: Subject categories (costs based on complexity of categorization) • Thousands $$$$ for initial set-up • Hundreds $$ for yearly maintenance

40. 2012

41. 2012 @AnnFamMed

42. 2012 website

43. Published April 2013 Selection of 41 essays in 7 themes

44. Special thanks to these current & former members of the Annals team Kurt Stange, MD PhD, Editor Bill Phillips, MD MPH, Sr. Assoc. Editor Associate/Consulting Editors Louise Acheson, MD Bijal Balasubramanian, MBBS PhD Liz Bayliss, MD MSPH Deb Cohen, PhD Ben Crabtree, PhD Bob Ferrer, MD MPH John Frey, MD Jim Gill, MD MPH Will Miller, MD MA Paul Nutting, MD MSPH Rob Williams, MD MPH Steve Zyzanski, PhD, Statistical Editor Robin Gotler, MA, Reflections Editor & Editorial Coordinator Claire Zimmerman, Managing Editor Beth Anderson, MLS, Editorial Assistant Bob Edsall, Editorial Director

45. Annals of Family Medicine: AnnFamMed.org AnnFamMed@case.edu Facebook.com/AnnFamMed @AnnFamMed • Laura: • @kiwano1 • Laura.McLellan@case.edu • Laura.McLellan@gmail.com