bmc oaspa webinar
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Presentation by panelist Matthew Cockerill, BioMed Central, for OASPA hosted webinar: A Q &A with five publishers working with Open Access on 20 October 2009. www.oaspaTRANSCRIPT
BioMed Central and OA Publishing
Matthew CockerillManaging Director, BioMed Central
OASPA Webinar, 20th October 2009
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
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
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
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
How do publication fees get paid? (last 12 months)
Individual payment
(Standard)54%
Discretionary waivers
3%
Low income country waivers
2%
Promotional waivers
7%
Individual payment
(Supporter member)
16%
Prepay membership
18%
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?
Journal peer review cascade
Highrejection rate
Moderaterejection rate
Lowrejection rate
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
Is OA publishing still growing?
Growth in quarterly manuscipt submissions
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%ge growth onprevious year
Growth rate is increasing
What factors are helping BioMed Central to grow?
Google pagerank
Similarly:
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Systems Biology
Bioinformatics
Developmental Biology
All on first page of Google results
BioMed Central journals with official Thomson Reuters/ISI impact factors
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10
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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
No. of journals with
Impact Factor
Journal transfers
Established titles are moving to OA with BioMed Central
Increasing visibility and increasing impact for a society journal
Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica
0.3180.408 0.375
0.717
0.899
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Moved to BioMed Central and became Open Access
Helping authors to comply with institutional Open Access policies
Institutional Repository
(DSpace/Eprints etc.)
Publisher
Manual deposit to IR
Manuscript
Author final
version
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Institutional Repository
(DSpace/Eprints etc.)
Automated deposit to IR via SWORD
Manuscript
SWORD Import
SWORD Export
Published articles from
institution’s authors
Published article