Open access publishing:
Your research on the world stage
Nandita Quaderi PhD (Publisher)
Fiona Pring (Senior Acquisitions Editor)
www.biomedcentral.com
BioMed Central
• Largest publisher of peer-reviewed open access (OA)
journals
• Launched first open access journal in 2000
• Now publishes 230 OA journals
• >100,000 peer-reviewed OA articles published
• Became part of Springer in 2008
• Hosts SpringerOpen
• Membership scheme
What is open access?
The old world of access to knowledge
The new world of access to knowledge
OA in brief
• No subscriptions = no barriers to access
• Published articles immediately available online for
free for everyone!
• Copyright remains with the author
• Major OA publishers - Article Processing Charges
(APCs)
• Support from funding bodies and governmental
agencies
Advantages of open access
• Very high visibility
- Accessible from multiple sites
- Indexed widely, eg PubMed
- No barriers to dissemination
• Quality
- Acceptance rates based purely on the quality of the
submissions
Open Access Publishing,
Then and Now…
2000
2012
And many more…
Open access in 2012
• Over 7200 open access journals in the DOAJ
• Over 1000 OA journals are indexed by ISI
• Open access to research is now mandated in over
135 institutions and by over 50 funders
• Submissions to OA journals grew by over 35%
between 2009 and 2010
• OA firmly part of the mainstream
Growth in OA mandates
Source: http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/c_6226/open-access-policies-for-universities-and-research-institutions?hlText=policies
Impact Factor journals: open
access market growth
"Full" OA Journals
Subscription Journals
Share OA Articles
1,400,000
9.0%
8.0%
1,200,000
Number of Articles
6.0%
800,000
5.0%
600,000
4.0%
3.0%
400,000
2.0%
200,000
1.0%
-
0.0%
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Share of Articles in ‚Full OA Journals
7.0%
1,000,000
Difference between subscription
and open access models
• Both have
– Editors, peer review, are indexed in ISI etc, have similar
production processes, obey publication ethics
• OA journals also
– Allow the contents to be immediately freely available online
everywhere in perpetuity
• Different business models
The open access business model
• Commonly financed by Article Processing Charges
(APCs) - usually paid by funders, institutions,
societies, etc
• Some open access journals have central support, so
no charges for authors or readers
• No charges for access
How authors cover APCs
Results from survey by the Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP)
BioMed Central Membership
• For BioMed Central, SpringerOpen and Chemistry
Central journals
• Institutions pay APCs in full or in part for their
researchers
• Over 380 Member institutions worldwide, including
- Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca
- Universidade Estadual Paulista
• Ask your librarian to visit:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/libraries/membership
Open access in a Brazilian context
• >650 journals in DOAJ
• 239 journals in SciELO
• Increasing numbers of
submissions to BMC
journals
• Diabetology and Metabolic
Syndrome
• BMC journal Membership
How Brazilian authors cover APCs
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
My institution paid the
fees
I used part of my
research funding not
specifically intended for
paying such fees
My research funding
includes money for
paying such fees
I paid the costs myself
Other
Results from survey by the Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP)
Publish a journal with us
• BioMed Central and SpringerOpen:
– launch new OA journals
– take on existing journals, both self-published and
from other publishers
• Speak to us if you’re interested!
Case study
• Brazilian Society of
Diabetes
• Launched 2009
• First Impact Factor
due in 2012
Thank you!
nandita.quaderi@biomedcentral.com
fiona.pring@biomedcentral.com
www.biomedcentral.com