41. Institutional Repository (DSpace/Eprints etc. ) Automated deposit to IR via SWORD Manuscript SWORD Import SWORD Export Published articles from institution’s authors Published article
44. Help Gulliver spread the word about open access at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/ecard/
Editor's Notes
So - to introduce BioMed Central… We’re the largest publisher of peer reviewed open access journals in the world, having pioneered the model since the launch of our first journals in 2000. The success of BioMed Central’s open access journals, and the promising future of the open access model was reinforced when the company was acquired by Springer, the world’s second largest STM Publisher, in October 2008. We now publish just over 200 titles, almost all of which are online only. Those titles have published more than 60,000 peer reviewed articles, all of which are not only freely available from our website, but are also openly licensed, to allow and encourage distribution and reuse as long as the original work is correctly attributed. BioMed Central’s main revenue stream is the Article Processing Charge fees paid for each article published.
I now want to show you a some data about how rapidly BioMed Central’s open access journals have grown in recent years, and to explain some of the factors that have led to that growth.
As you can see here, from this graph showing the number of research manuscripts submitted each calendar quarter, BioMed Central’s growth shows no signs of slowing down.
59 journals currently have Impact Factors – at least 18 more expected in June 2010. A hugely strong on going driver of growth, and a demonstration of the quality of BioMed Central’s journals.
The goals of OASPA are: -to be a voice for open access publishers - To enforce standards and good practices For example, members of OASPA agree to a common standard of definition of open access. Articles must not only be free on the publishers website, but also openly licensed to allow redistribution and reuse. Also, to work with academic institutions to see how best arrangements can be put in place to handle the payment of APCs, since models designed around subscription payment are not a good fit.
This is one case example of a Scandinavian society journal which has thrived since moving to BioMed Central, more than doubling its Impact Factor, and attracting many more manuscript submissions.
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers association was launched in October 2008 (Open Access week)
The goals of OASPA are: -to be a voice for open access publishers - To enforce standards and good practices For example, members of OASPA agree to a common standard of definition of open access. Articles must not only be free on the publishers website, but also openly licensed to allow redistribution and reuse. Also, to work with academic institutions to see how best arrangements can be put in place to handle the payment of APCs, since models designed around subscription payment are not a good fit.
Announced durign open access week
Joining OUP which has already made such reductions
The last thing I would like to discuss is the relationship between open access journals and open access repositories.
In the last few years, mandatory policies have been put in place by many research funders and also academic institutions, requiring authors to deposit articles into open access repositories, to increase access to research, whatever journal it is published in.
In the last few years, mandatory policies have been put in place by many research funders and also academic institutions, requiring authors to deposit articles into open access repositories, to increase access to research, whatever journal it is published in.
In the last few years, mandatory policies have been put in place by many research funders and also academic institutions, requiring authors to deposit articles into open access repositories, to increase access to research, whatever journal it is published in.
Many institutions now have their own repository, but ensuring that research is deposited in the repository is a lot of work for both authors and administrators. Open Access journals offer the benefits that the official publisher version can be shared, immediately on publication. BioMed Central already automatically deposits published open access articles into funder repositories such as PubMed Central. To make the flow of articles into institutional repositories even easier, we have now implemented support for the SWORD protocol. This will allow BioMed Central member institutions to have articles from their researchers automatically deposited into their institutional repository.
Here is the typical process when an author published in a typical traditional journal. As well as submitting their manuscript to the journal, they must separately deposit a copy of the finally accepted manuscript into their institutional repository. The administrators of the repository must then check that the article’s metadata is correct. What is then distributed is not the official publisher version of the article, but an unofficial, unformatted author version.
When publishing with BioMed Central, as a result of the new SWORD integration, the author only needs to submit their manuscript once, to the publisher. Once the article is accepted and published, the official final version of the article can automatically be deposited into the appropriate institutional repository. All the repository administrators then need to do is to approve the deposit, and to ensure it is stored in the correct location. The entire process is far quicker, more reliable, and efficient. If your institution is interested in trialling such a SWORD feed, we would very much like to hear from you.
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