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- 1. BioMed Central and OA Publishing Matthew Cockerill Managing Director, BioMed Central OASPA Webinar, 20th October 2009
- 2. About BioMed Central Largest publisher of peer-reviewed OA journals Launched first open access journal in 2000 Now publishes 202 OA titles >60,000 peer-reviewed OA articles published All research articles published under Creative Commons license Costs covered by 'article processing charge' (APC) Part of Springer Science+Business Media since October 2008
- 3. BioMed Central revenue streams Publication fees – From authors – From meeting organizers – From sponsoring institutions/organizations Subscription content (e.g. reviews) Services (e.g. Open Repository) Advertising / sponsorship
- 4. BioMed Central revenue streams Publication fees – From authors – From meeting organizers – From sponsoring institutions/organizations Subscription content (e.g. reviews) Services (e.g. Open Repository) Advertising / sponsorship
- 5. BioMed Central membership Prepay membership – Institution pays APCs centrally at a discounted rate – Authors do not have to pay Supporter membership – Institutions pay a flat fee – Authors pay a discounted Article Processing Charge
- 6. How do publication fees get paid? (last 12 months) Prepay membership 18% Individual payment (Standard) Individual 54% payment (Supporter member) 16% Promotional waivers 7% Low income country waivers Discretionary 2% waivers 3%
- 7. Rejection rates and the open access model High prestige journals often have a high rejection rate Lots of submissions, few publications How to make economically viable under Open Access? – Higher APC? – Submission fee? – Cascade model?
- 8. Journal peer review cascade High rejection rate Moderate rejection rate Low rejection rate
- 9. Advantages of peer review cascade Avoids delays for authors Avoids saddling academics with repeated peer review of less interesting papers Separates question of soundness of research from level of interest – Soundness determines whether to publish – Interest determines where to publish
- 10. Is OA publishing still growing?
- 11. 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 0 apr.00 okt.00 apr.01 okt.01 apr.02 okt.02 apr.03 okt.03 apr.04 okt.04 apr.05 okt.05 apr.06 okt.06 submissions apr.07 okt.07 apr.08 okt.08 apr.09 Growth in quarterly manuscipt
- 12. Growth rate is increasing 20000 50% 41% 40% 15000 30% Submissions 28% 10000 (Jan-Aug) 19% 20% 18% %ge growth on 5000 previous year 10% 0 0% 2006 2007 2008 2009
- 13. What factors are helping BioMed Central to grow?
- 14. Google pagerank Similarly: Cell Biology Molecular Biology Systems Biology Bioinformatics Developmental Biology All on first page of Google results
- 15. BioMed Central journals with official Thomson Reuters/ISI impact factors No. of journals with Impact Factor 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
- 17. Established titles are moving to OA with BioMed Central
- 18. Increasing visibility and increasing impact for a society journal Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica Moved to 1 BioMed Central and became 0.899 Open Access Impact Factor 0.8 0.717 0.6 0.408 0.375 0.4 0.318 0.2 0 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
- 19. Helping authors to comply with institutional Open Access policies
- 20. Manual deposit to IR 1 Publisher Manuscript 2 Institutional Repository Author (DSpace/Eprints etc.) final version
- 21. Automated deposit to IR via SWORD SWORD Export Manuscript Published articles from SWORD institution’s Import authors Institutional Repository Published (DSpace/Eprints etc.) article