[Open-access] Fwd: NewsRelease Open for business open access journals reaching the same scientific impact as subscription journals

Fri Jul 13 11:40:58 UTC 2012

Great article, why publish in TA Journals any more? Thanks for the share!

TOM

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Naomi Lillie <naomi.lillie at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Please excuse cross-posting - see below for an annoucement of a paper on
> the scientific impact of open access publishing. We now have scientific
> rigour!
>
> Naomi
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Hilary Glover <hilary.glover at biomedcentral.com>
> Date: 13 July 2012 11:54
> Subject: NewsRelease Open for business open access journals reaching the
> same scientific impact as subscription journals
> To: "info at okfn.org" <info at okfn.org>
>
>
> Send Date:13-Jul-2012 11:53
>
>
> Dear Colleague,
>
> BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine is pleased to be able to
> add scientific rigour to the debate about open access research, by
> publishing an article which compares the scientific impact of open access
> with traditional subscription publishing and has found that both of these
> publishing business models produce high quality peer reviewed articles.
>
> This release is embargoed until 00:01 GMT 17th July 2012
>
> If you have any questions regarding this release please contact me.
>
> Dr Hilary Glover
> Scientific Press Officer, BioMed Central
> Tel: +44 (0) 20 3192 2370
> Mob: +44 (0) 778 698 1967
> Email: hilary.glover at biomedcentral.com
>
> Open for business: open access journals reaching the same scientific
> impact as subscription journals
>
> BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine is pleased to be able to
> add scientific rigour to the debate about open access research, by
> publishing an article which compares the scientific impact of open access
> with traditional subscription publishing and has found that both of these
> publishing business models produce high quality peer reviewed articles.
>
> The debate about who should pay for scientific publishing is of continuing
> importance to the scientific community but also to the general public who
> not only often pay for the research though charitable contributions, their
> taxes, and by buying products, but are also affected by the results
> contained within these articles.
>
> Many publically funded agencies, such as the Wellcome Trust and NIH
> require that scientific research sponsored by them is made freely available
> to the public. However the issues aren't as simple as just putting the
> results of your research on line. Scientific research goes through the
> quality control filter of peer review and journals act as gatekeepers
> performing quality-assuring peer review, and who provide web-based
> repositories. Scientists currently rely on publishing in peer reviewed high
> quality journals to show that their research itself is of good quality, is
> of importance to their field of research, and consequently improves their
> chances of obtaining funding to continue their work.
>
> One way of measuring quality is by impact factors calculated from citation
> data (how many times other scientists have mentioned the research).
> Bo-Christer Bjork from Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, and David
> Solomon from Michigan State University compared the impact factors of 610
> open access journals and over 7000 subscription journals.
>
> The citation rate for subscription journals was overall 30% higher than
> for open access ones but this difference was largely due to a high share of
> older OA journals, particularly from regions like Latin America in the
> citation indexes. When like was compared with like, for instance, journals
> founded after 2000 from difference regions or disciplines, the differences
> disappeared.
>
> Bo-Christer Bjork, explained, "The open access debate has included
> accusations from some traditional publishers and their lobbyists that Open
> Access publishing implies low scientific quality and endangers the quality
> assurance function of the peer review system that the academic community
> and publishers have built up over decades."
>
> Explaining the results Prof Bjork said, "If you take into account the
> journal discipline, location of publisher and age of publication the
> differences in impact between open access and subscription journals largely
> disappear. In medicine and health, open access journals founded in the last
> 10 years are receiving on average as many citations as subscription
> journals launched during the same time."
>
> David Solomon continued, "It is easy to see why scientists might be
> sceptical of electronic, open access journals - after all they have their
> reputation to maintain. Open access journals that fund publishing with
> article processing charges (APCs), sometimes called gold open access, are
> on average cited more than other OA journals. Since the launch of
> professionally run high quality biomedical journals in 2000 gold OA has
> increased by 30% per year and many of these are on a par with their
> subscription counterparts."
>
> - ENDS -
>
>
> Media contact
> Dr Hilary Glover
> Scientific Press Officer, BioMed Central
>
> Tel: +44 (0) 20 3192 2370
> Mob: +44 (0) 778 698 1967
> Email: hilary.glover at biomedcentral.com
>
>
> Notes to editors
>
> 1. Open access versus subscription journals: a comparison of scientific
> impact
> Bo-Christer Bjork and David Solomon
> BMC Medicine (in press)
>
> Please name the journal in any story you write. If you are writing for the
> web, please link to the article. All articles are available free of charge,
> according to BioMed Central's open access policy.
>
> Article citation and URL available on request on the day of publication.
>
> 2. BMC Medicine is the flagship medical journal of the BMC series,
> publishing original research, commentaries and reviews that are either of
> significant interest to all areas of medicine and clinical practice, or
> provide key translational or clinical advances in a specific field.
>
> 3. BioMed Central (http://www.biomedcentral.com/) is an STM (Science,
> Technology and Medicine) publisher which has pioneered the open access
> publishing model. All peer-reviewed research articles published by BioMed
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