Abstract
This editorial introduces the use of article-processing charges at Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations and reviews that advantages of publishing in an Open Access journal. In addition, it introduces a new type of article the journal hopes to publish, detailed reports of study design or data analysis methods that have been used in health science research. The new type of article is intended to supplement the woefully constrained methods sections in standard research report articles, providing information that better fulfills the goals of scientific publishing.
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Authors at the many BioMed Central (BMC) member institutions receive an exemption from the fee, and we encourage authors to help persuade their institutions to become members if they are not already
We are delighted to be able to provide this forum for scientific publishing and to be able to participate in the Open Access movement
We hope you will support this effort by submitting a paper to Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations (EP&I) and submitting your reports of study results to other Open Access journals
Summary
Readers are not limited by what their library can afford, and can access articles via web-based searches (using research databases or general web search engines), increasingly the most popular method for finding publications. This easier availability has been shown to make articles more highly cited [1]. Under the Open Access model, authors retain copyrights to their work (beyond granting the journal the right to publish and archive the article, and readers the right to make appropriate use of the published material), allowing the authors to freely distribute, anthologize, and repost their work. The value of carefully reported methods, rather than broad sketches, is exemplified by the huge number of choices that must be made about how data is analyzed and reported, and the dramatic effect those choices can have on the reported results [7]
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