Electronic Publishing at Calicut Medical College, Kerala: A Case Study of Three Open Access

Journals

Mohamed Musthafa. K&

Dr. Naushad Ali. PM

Aligarh Muslim UniversityAligarh, India

2011

National Conference on “Managing Libraries in New Information

Environment”

Organized by

Asia -Pacific Institute of ManagementNew Delhi

7-8 January, 2011.

Introduction

� E-publishing promises many solutions for the problems faced by P-publishing

� EP supports the researchers to communicate each other directly without much delay in publication and peer review process

� By 1990s many Indian journals have started e-publishing. – By 1999 Current Science, Neurology India,Indian Pediatrics, …

Calicut Medical College, Kerala

� Calicut Medical College is a premier institute leads medical research in Kerala

� Scholarly EP started in Calicut Medical College in 2001

Electronic publishing

� “publishing on computer network or disk: the production of documents in computer-readable form for distribution over a computer network or in other formats such as CD-ROMs” (Encarta)

Electronic publishing

� “The process of creating and disseminating information via electronic means including e-mail and via the web is electronic publishing.

� Electronically published materials may originate as traditional paper publishing or may be created specifically for electronic publishing” (Bear, 2003)

Open Access Publishing

-Free access to scholarly publications available online to the end users which can be reproduced and distributed freely

Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition:

- Free availability on the public internet, - Permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print,

search, or link to the full texts of these articles, - Crawl them for indexing, - Pass them as data to software, - Or use them for any other lawful purpose,- Without financial, legal, or technical barriers - The only constraint on reproduction and distribution: - to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the

right to be properly acknowledged and cited’ (BOAI, 2002).

Objectives of the Study

To gather the data related to open access e-Publishing in Calicut Medical College, Kerala

- their subject coverage,

- periodicity, - format, - full text availability,

- copy right policy and - special features.

Journals Under Study

1) The Calicut Medical Journal (CMJ), 2) The Journal of Orthopedics (JO) and

3) The Internet Journal of Cardiology (IJC).

Methodology

� Data Collection:– A well structured questionnaire for editors, – literature, – directories of open access journals, and – website of the institutions.

� Analysis of Data (content and authors of the journals)– A sample of last three years (2008-2010)

� each and every items published in each issues � every authors and their affiliation.

Analysis and Findings

Subject coverage� The Calicut Medical Journal (CMJ)

– Biomedical subjects;

� The Journal of Orthopedics (JO) – ‘Tropical Orthopedics’

� The Internet Journal of Cardiology (IJC) – Cardiology and related topics.

Analysis and Findings

� Periodicity� The Calicut Medical Journal (CMJ)

– Quarterly (first issue 2003, 8 vols & 27 issues)

� The Journal of Orthopedics (JO) – Quarterly (first issue 2004, 7 vols & 28 issues)

� The Internet Journal of Cardiology (IJC) – Bi-annually (first issue 2001, 9 vols & 17 issues)

Analysis and Findings

Peer review / Full text availability– All the three journals are peer reviewed (by a group

of reviewers)

– Available full text in all journals

� Format used– CMJ - PDF– JO - HTML – IJC - HTML

(The contents are copy friendly in all journals)

Analysis and Findings

� Subscription – open access and free to use,

� Publication ChargesThe Internet Journal of Cardiology

– $ 25 for submission (when submitting the article)– $225 for publication of each article (payable before

publishing). – $25 is charged for author name changes or additions – and $ 40 for correction within the text (after an article was

published)

Analysis and Findings

� Sponsor / Publisher– The CMJ and JO - on behalf of Calicut Medical

College Alumni Associations – IJC by Internet Scientific Publication

(ISPUB.COM).

� All journals publish medical related advertisements

Analysis and FindingsIndexing/Abstracting and Archiving of Content

Calicut Medical Journal

Journal of Orthopedics

The Internet Jrl. Of Cardiology

Indexing/Abstracting

Index Copernicus, MedOne, Virtual Med, Coallience journal

OpenMed,Virtual Journal of International health,MedOne

Embase,

Scopus, Cinahl, Ebsco, and Gale.

Full Text listing

DOAJ, Google Scholar, Google.com, AOL.com,

Open J-Gate

Ulrich’s Medical Directory,

Open J-Gate, CINAHL database, Google.com, Yahoo.com

DOAJ, Google Scholar,

Open J-Gate

Archiving

Cogprints Cogprints Internet Scientific LLC publications, LOC Catalogue of Publication

Analysis and Findings

Contributors to the Journals – Indian v/s Foreigners

(Authors are considered on the basis of affiliation, no the origin)

•Maximum number of authors contributed in 2008 (n=428) and least in 2010 (n=329)•CMJ – Indian authors contributed more than foreign•JO & IJC – Foreign authors contributed more than Indian

•Study revealed that OA publishing gives more visibility to research results through out the world.•And enrich the content with contribution from an international authorship.

Analysis and Findings

Contributors to the Journals – Indian v/s Foreigners

Years

Calicut Medical Journal Journal of Orthopedics The Internet Jrl. of Cardiology

Indian Foreign Total Indian Foreign Total Indian Foreign Total

200873

(85.88)12

(14.11)85

(100)83

(33.33)166

(66.66)249

(100)8

(8.51)86

(91.48)94

(100)

200961

(91.04)6

(8.95)67

(100)37

(16.59)186

(83.40)223

(100)14

(12.5)98

(87.5)112

(100)

201047

(88.67)6

(11.32)53

(100)25

(18.56)109

(81.34)134

(100)8

(5.63)134

(94.36)142

(100)

Analysis and Findings

Content Calicut MedicalJournal

N=82

Journal of Orthopedics

N=145

The Internet Jrl. of Cardiology

N=89

Editorial 10 (12.19%) 11(7.58%) -Original Research 27(32.92%) 94(64.82%) 33(37.07%)Review Article 9(10.97%) 1(0.69%) 5(5.61%)Short Report 19(23.17%) 49(33.79%) 46(51.68%)Letter / Opinion 5(6.09%) - 5(5.61%)Radiology Images 11(13.41%) - -Focal Points 1(1.21%) - -

•Content distribution 2008-2010

Analysis and Findings

� Authors of the Journals (Country wise)

– Indian authors are the highest number (n=355)– followed by USA (n=176) and UK (n=123)– Countries like Cuba (55), China (49) and Iran (45)– Japan, Nigeria, Spain, Mexico, Canada and

Turkey contributed more than 20 authors

Analysis and Findings

� Copyright policyIJC

– Demands the author (s) to transfer (s) the copyright to her/their article to Internet Scientific Publications, L.L.C.,

– The copyright covers :– rights to reproduce and distribute the article in any

form of reproduction. Internet Scientific Publications, L.L.C. should be notified by the author if the submitted material has been published somewhere else.

Analysis and Findings

� Copyright policyCMJ and JO

– Give copyright of articles to the respective authors unless otherwise specified.

– The copyright covers :– Verbatim copying, redistribution and storage of

articles permitted provided no restrictions are imposed on the access and a hyperlink to the original article in respective Journals maintained.

Conclusion

� E-Publishing is being accepted by both researchers and readers

� EP in Calicut Med. College has gained a momentum in the dissemination of scholarly info. In the field of bio-medical sciences globally.

� OA Publishing enabled both readers and authors to communicate freely at anytime, anywhere.

� E-journals published from CMC have all the features of any other peer reviewed journals.

� The number of Indian contributors to CMC e-journals are the highest which evidences the acceptance of OA Publishing system in India