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Open access
Author charges• Reverse the business model, from output-paid, to
input-paid• Paid on acceptance/publication• Reflect prestige of journals and service to
authors• May be a range of charges for different levels of
service• Ideally, not paid by individual authors but by their
institution or funding agency• Waived for authors who are unable to pay
Open access : finance Costs cut• Paper, printing• Distribution,
warehousing• Maintaining
subscriptions– Marketing, Sales, Admin
• Protecting content, copyright
Costs left• Ensuring and
organising rapid peer review
• Electronic (XML) mark-up
• Quality Control• Web site• Customer services
Does open access mean no peer review?
What does open access mean?
An open access publication is one that meets the following two conditions:
• The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual (for the lifetime of the applicable copyright) right of access to, and a licence to copy, use, distribute, perform and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works in any digital medium for any reasonable purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship[2], as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.
Bethesda statement: notes• An open access publication is a property of
individual works, not necessarily of journals or of publishers.
• Community standards, rather than copyright law, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now.
Support for open access
Wellcome Trust report“Journal subscriptions are a significant
financial burden on institutional libraries and individual researchers, and present a major obstacle to the timely and comprehensive sharing and use of scientific information.”
– Economic analysis of scientific research publishing. The Wellcome Trust, 2003
Specifically, the Trust• welcomes the establishment of free-access, high-
quality scientific journals available via the Internet;• will encourage and support the formation of such
journals and/or free-access repositories for research papers;
• will meet the cost of publication charges including those for online-only journals for Trust-funded research by permitting Trust researchers to use contingency funds for this purpose;
What’s the BMJ doing?
• bmj.com has been completely free access since its launch in 1995
• From 2005, user charges will be in place • All content will be free for all for a week• After which “value added” content will
be available to subscribers only• Original research may be charged for...
“one last big kick…”
But who from, and where?
Who are the stakeholders in clinical
research?
Who are the stakeholders in clinical research?
• Future patients• Present patients• Clinicians• Research participants• Purchasers of health care• Sponsors of research• Health research institutions• Individual researchers
– Evans and Evans, 1996
Who are the stakeholders in clinical research?
No mention of…• Publishers• Journal editors• Industry
“one last big kick…”
Here’s a job for the Funders’ Forum
