Open Access Publishing Model Research Articles

Asia-Pacific Science Education (APSE): expanding opportunities for publishing science education research

© I a l We are pleased to introduce a new journal, Asia-Pacific Science Education, which was created to provide researchers in the Asia-Pacific region with a central channel for disseminating research in local contexts about issues in science education to both science educators in the geographical region and researchers in the extended international community. APSE is unique in that our journal focuses on the publication of scholarly articles examining issues related to science teaching and learning in Asia as well as articles that address the issues facing science teachers and science learners who are members of the Asian Diaspora. As a result, we expect the scholarly works published in APSE will encompass diverse topics of interest that will be significant for a wide readership. In this introductory issue, we describe the origins of APSE and we share findings from an analysis of publication data from other major journals in the field that demonstrate a need for APSE. Next we share our vision for the role APSE can play in supporting the development of an academic community where studies conducted in the Asia-Pacific region and studies conducted with participants from the Asian Diaspora will be valued and accessed by scholars who are concerned about science education issues affecting these communities. We conclude by offering a detailed description of the unique features APSE offers our authors and readers, including a supportive peerreview process that is considerate of the challenges facing non-native English speakers. Finally, we explain how our open access (OA) publication model ensures that researchers and teachers anywhere in the world can access and read all content in our journal for free.

Neurovascular imaging: seeing the future more clearly

I am very happy to present the new journal titled Neurovascular Imaging (NVI), published by BioMed Central. The field of neurovascular imaging is a pivotal point at the intersection of neuroradiology, vascular neurology and vascular neurosurgery. Neurovascular research is a growing field and it is my opinion that a dedicated space for research in this field is necessary. In recent years, research in the field of neurovascular imaging has grown and changed through the exploration of both the morphological features associated with the pathology [1–3] and the pathways that lead to the early development of pathological conditions [4, 5]. In particular, the introduction of new CT and MR technologies opened new territories in the neurovascular imaging field [6–8]. Epidemiological analyses have shown that stroke is the third leading cause of death in the western world [9] and several recently published studies have underlined the link between the vessel (small and medium size) and brain disorders [10, 11]. The purpose of this journal will be to publish the latest research and educational papers about the key topics in neurovascular imaging. The main topics of focus for NVI include (but are not limited to): (1) Basis of pathology and technique (2) Carotid and vertebral artery, (3) Intracranial arterial circulation, (4) Stroke imaging, (5) Veins imaging, (6) Spine circulation, (7) Pediatric vascular disease. The journal will publish not only articles that cover “how to image” or “how to identify” some specific anatomy part or disease, but mainly scientific studies that explore the diagnostic process by using imaging. The vision is to consider the use of imaging as an advanced tool to perform the diagnosis of a disease and to identify associations between pathological conditions. The modality of publication of the articles in NVI is the open access publishing model [12, 13]; this approach has several advantages, including a wide readership resulting from unrestricted access. In the past, the traditional business model for scientific publishers relied on restricting access to published research in order to recoup the costs of the publication process. This approach was proven to work in the past but it is becoming apparent that the reality is rapidly changing and the necessity of restricting access to published research nowadays is debatable. It is well demonstrated that to produce “science,” it is important for the unrestricted flow of information in order to develop the necessary critical mass of new ideas to make a “quantum leap” the research [14]. The Editorial Board is composed by world-renowned leaders in the various fields of neurovascular imaging, some of whom are some of the fathers of this topic. Readers can be assured that NVI will be home to highquality research submitted and reviewed by the leading people in the field. In conclusion, I have high hopes for Neurovascular Imaging; its duty is complex, but I am sure that NVI will achieve its goals in the best way.

Welcome to a new era for Clinical and Molecular Allergy.

Welcome to a new era for Clinical and Molecular Allergy.

Scholarly Societies and Scholarly Communication: A Look Ahead

Roger C. Schonfeld is Director, Library and Scholarly Communication Program at Ithaka S+R; e-mail: Roger.Schonfeld@ithaka.org. © 2015 Roger C. Schonfeld, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC. In many academic and professional fields, the society-sponsored journal has for a century had a unique position in scholarly discourse. An annual meeting and conference provided intellectual exchange and social stimulation, while the journal provided a more formal mechanism to communicate, to review, to evaluate, and to certify. In celebrating the rich contributions C&RL has made over the past 75 years, we find ourselves in a moment of profound change in the ways that scholarship is conducted and communicated. These changes in scholarly production and distribution, combined with a growing diversity in how research itself is conducted, provide C&RL new opportunities to maintain its leadership position in the library field. The 75th anniversary of the journal is an opportune time for a bold examination of how ACRL and C&RL can continue to facilitate the scholarship of librarianship.1 C&RL has pursued a number of strategic decisions with real implications for its role in the community, including the shift to an open-access publishing model, the partnership with a third-party platform provider for its distribution infrastructure, and the cessation of its print version. Moving C&RL to the HighWire platform infrastructure modernized discoverability and usability while spreading the cost of developing new features across a broader base of publishers and publications (although it is not without its risks).2 Moving to open access makes it possible for the core content of the journal to reach an unrestricted audience, which should allow for thinking about expanding readership and developing new audiences. And the elimination of print affords opportunities to begin reimagining the periodicity of the journal and the type of content it contains, including the nature of the article itself. These are major steps that, if seized effectively, can reposition C&RL in a variety of ways that make it a vanguard of professional communications for academic librarians. At the same time, the environment for publishing on library-related issues has not been static. Several new publications have been developed, such as portal: Libraries and the Academy and In the Library with the Lead Pipe, the former published by Johns Hopkins University Press with an emphasis on technology, academic partnerships, and institutional missions, the latter self-hosted and focusing on “libraries and library workers” with an emphasis on their potential for community transformation.3 The editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration resigned amid concerns about the inability for authors to retain certain rights without requiring fees charged to them.4 In addition, a number of library-related organizations, including CLIR, OCLC, and my own Ithaka S+R, have maintained or developed publishing programs of their own, typically anchored by a series of research reports in addition to perspective pieces, newsletters, blogs, and other formats, with both staff and guest authorship. Journalism

Evidence of the Internationalization of Clinical Endoscopy Based on Journal Metrics.

Background/AimsThis study aims to verify the internationalization of Clinical Endoscopy based on journal metrics after the change to English-only in 2011. The results of this study serve as a starting point for developing strategies to develop Clinical Endoscopy into a top-tier international journal.MethodsThe following journal metrics were analyzed from the journal's homepage or the Web of Science: the number of citable articles, number of countries of affiliation of the contributors, the number of articles supported by research grants, total citations, impact factor, citing journals, countries of citing authors, and the Hirsch index.ResultsThe number of citable articles in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 was 22, 81, 120, and 95, respectively. The authors were from 11 countries. Twenty-one out of 55 original articles were supported by research grants. The total citations in 2012, 2013, and 2014 were 2, 85, and 213, respectively. The impact factor was 0.670 in 2013 and 0.940 in 2014. The number of countries citing authors were from was 61. The Hirsch index was 6.ConclusionsThe above results demonstrate that Clinical Endoscopy became an international journal, contributing to the propagation of valuable research results through an open access publishing model.

India's Contribution to Open Access Movement

Open access (OA) publishing model fosters growth of research and development activities in academic and research institutes. The study identifes the major OA initiatives in India. It was found that 105 Indian repositories are listed in the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR), constituting 3% of the total. The top 10 countries collectively produced 1,146,187 (63.4%) OA papers. Brazil has the maximum share of publications, 335,590 (18.6%), followed by United Kingdom 193,309 (10.7%), United States 115,078 (6.4%), India 94,156 (5.2%). India publishes 595 OA journals and is ranked fourth in the world. The maximum OA journals are on medicine and majority of journals are in English 584 (97.8%). Indian researchers have been ranked eighth in research publications with 351 (3.6%) papers. Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is the leading institution in publishing research on OA. s, Arunachalam, from M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai is the most prolifc Indian author publishing research on OA with 10 (2.8%) papers.

Identity Alignment in the Inter-organisational Relationship: The Case of Open Access

Organisations routinely participate in inter-organisational relationships such as mergers & acquisitions, conglomerates, networks, business alliances, and industry associations. However, our understanding of how these relationships affect organisational identities remains limited. To address this issue, we study how members construe their organisational identities and those of other key organisations they have relationships with, and how this construal influences the implementation of innovative practices. We examine how members of an academic university press in the UK made sense of both their own organisational identities and those of their parent university, sister organisations and competitors; and how this affected the implementation of the Open Access publishing model. We offer a relational view of organisational identity and develop a process model of organisational identity alignment in inter-organisational relationships.

Saying farewell and welcoming new leadership

quite favorably to this modus operandi. In addition, to accommodate authors who want more options with respect to Open Access publishing, TCA adopted and continues to adhere to a Green Open Access self-archiving model and a hybrid Gold Open Access publishing model. Another hallmark of TCA has been its commitment to the publication of feature articles by established and emerging leaders in the theoretical/computational field. We have worked with authors to ensure that the feature article style is very flexible—for example with regard to page length—with the goal of providing an overview of a model or of an area but with the key difference from feature articles in many other journals is that such articles in TCA may be directed to an audience of theoretical chemists rather than to a broader audience that may be less knowledgeable about theoretical concerns. I would be remiss in departing if I failed to express my gratitude to the many individuals whose contributions were seminal to the ongoing success of TCA during my own time as Editor. These include the publishing editors from Springer with whom I have worked, the production staff, my advisory and associate editors, members of the editorial board, and first and foremost, the authors and reviewers who have advanced our field through their scholarly contributions to TCA over the years. With the continued support of these many talented individuals, I am certain that TCA will maintain its preeminence under the leadership of Drs. Adamo and Ciofini, and I wish them all success moving forward. It has been a privilege to serve, since the year 2000, as the 4th Editor-in-Chief for theoretical chemistry accounts (TCA). Founded in 1962, TCA remains the oldest journal devoted exclusively to publishing developments and applications of theoretical chemistry. As a legacy of the prior Editors-in-Chief as well—Hermann Hartmann, Klaus Ruedenberg, and Don Truhlar—TCA continues to serve the broader Chemistry community with distinction. Mindful of that legacy, I believe that it is time to turn the reins of editorship over to a new pair of scholars particularly well suited to maintain TCA’s high standards while at the same time broadening its reach and the diversity of topics that it covers. I am delighted to announce that Carlo Adamo and Ilaria Ciofini have agreed to take on this responsibility, and I am confident that they will continue the journal’s commitment to excellence in service to the theoretical chemistry community. In my time as Editor-in-Chief, TCA launched a number of initiatives, including a switch to consecutive publishing, where all articles become published and can be cited immediately after the return of proofs. In recent years, we have also published a number of special collections, including a New Century issue (in Vol. 103, nos. 3–4, 2000, with perspectives on influential papers from the previous century) and a 50th anniversary issue (in Vol. 131, 2012, summarizing past accomplishments and offering thoughts about the future). Because of consecutive publishing, papers in such collections are not delayed by any need to await completion of the “slowest” contribution, and authors have responded

Economic impacts of open access in Europe and the United States

The release of the UK Joint Information Systems Committee report Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models (Houghton and Oppenheim et al. 2009) generated considerable interest, particularly in the methods used to explore the benefits of open access publishing models, as well as their costs. During 2009, there were a number of follow-on studies. These included national studies in The Netherlands and Denmark, and a three-country comparison, which explored the impacts of alternative scholarly publishing models on one of the larger (United Kingdom), a mid-sized (Netherlands), and one of the smaller European countries (Denmark). This year there have been three further projects. The first focuses on Germany, and brings the German National Licensing Program (NLP) into the mix of alternative scholarly communication models. The second focuses on the United Kingdom, and uses the JISC EI-ASPM model to examine the cost impacts of alternative scholarly publishing models for a sample of UK universities. The third involved further application of some of the underlying methods to exploring the cost-benefit implications of the proposed US Federal Public Research Access Act (FRPAA). This presentation will examine what the methods developed, studies conducted and debate engendered tell us about the viability and sustainability of alternative publishing models, and their potential impacts on research, research infrastructure and the communication and application of publicly funded research findings.

Economic impacts of open access in Europe and the United States

The release of the UK Joint Information Systems Committee report Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models (Houghton and Oppenheim et al. 2009) generated considerable interest, particularly in the methods used to explore the benefits of open access publishing models, as well as their costs. During 2009, there were a number of follow-on studies. These included national studies in The Netherlands and Denmark, and a three-country comparison, which explored the impacts of alternative scholarly publishing models on one of the larger (United Kingdom), a mid-sized (Netherlands), and one of the smaller European countries (Denmark). This year there have been three further projects. The first focuses on Germany, and brings the German National Licensing Program (NLP) into the mix of alternative scholarly communication models. The second focuses on the United Kingdom, and uses the JISC EI-ASPM model to examine the cost impacts of alternative scholarly publishing models for a sample of UK universities. The third involved further application of some of the underlying methods to exploring the cost-benefit implications of the proposed US Federal Public Research Access Act (FRPAA). This presentation will examine what the methods developed, studies conducted and debate engendered tell us about the viability and sustainability of alternative publishing models, and their potential impacts on research, research infrastructure and the communication and application of publicly funded research findings.

A new era for Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki.

Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki (JBR) replaced the Scientific Annals of the School of Biology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki called BIOS in 2004. In these 10 years, more than 850 authors originating from 54 countries have published 280 articles. JBR has been indexed in ISI Journal Citation Reports© (Thomson Reuters), since 2008 (current Impact Factor 0.62). Until the end of 2013, JBR was published by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. With the rapidly changing environment of scientific publishing, it was decided that JBR should be transformed into a modern, open access journal. For this transition, the Editors of JBR along with the Administration of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki decided to become partners with one of the world leaders in open access publishing, BioMed Central. Starting from May 2014 (Volume 21), JBR articles will be published by BioMed Central and freely available online at http://www.jbiolres.com/ [1]. All the back volumes of JBR (Volumes 1–20) are also freely available at http://www.jbr.gr/ [2], which will remain active for archiving purposes. Dissemination of scientific results is the milestone of science and the vehicle for transporting knowledge produced in universities and other research institutes to the community. Open access publishing ensures high visibility of content, gives authors copyright of their work, and articles are indexed in freely accessible full-text repositories, in compliance with the policies of numerous funding organizations/bodies [3–7]. Also, open access fulfills the USA demand for government-funded research papers to be made freely available within one year of publication [5] and the requirement posed by the Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK for government-funded research results to be published open access [6, 7]. For all the above reasons, we were enthusiastic to move JBR to publish under a “gold” open access model, which provides immediate open access to all articles published in the journal. Another issue that the Editors of JBR consider of great importance is research and publication ethics. This includes data fabrication/falsification/misinterpretation, disclosing of relevant personal or financial interests, plagiarism, and protection of sensitive and confidential data. BioMed Central is a member of, and subscribes to the principles of, COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) [8], and provides Editors with access to CrossCheck software for plagiarism detection. In addition, BioMed Central assures the fast publication of accepted manuscripts in its final citation, and also gives authors the opportunity to publish large datasets, video and large numbers of color illustrations for no additional charge [9]. JBR carries the valuable (and variable) lessons learned during its first ten years of life over to a fresh new start brimming with new challenges and responsibilities, as well as opportunities. With an enriched set of article types (Research, Reviews, Short Reports, Hypotheses, Letters to the Editor, Commentaries and Book Reviews), the journal now provides additional podia through which authors may communicate their research and ideas in more flexible and exciting ways. Reflecting the broad expertise of the Editorial Board and the philosophy of its Editors, JBR continues on the same track of a multidisciplinary scope within biology. We hope that the broad coverage also incites authors to submit interesting works of an interdisciplinary/integrative nature. Within this general biological scope, the Editors of the journal will publish series devoted to popular topics such as evolutionary biology and molecular ecology. JBR is run by practicing scientists, who are recognized academics that continue to publish and serve as reviewers for other journals. Therefore, authors and JBR staff (across all levels of responsibility, from the Editor-in-Chief to the Editorial Board) share common interests. Neither subsidiaries nor any scientific society endorse JBR. Within this structure the question of novelty in scientific research is fundamental. The criteria of novelty have been hotly debated over the years [10], more so nowadays as some feel that the open access publishing model threatens to redefine them. JBR does not intend to be defiant of nor enticed by the metric of Impact Factor. As scientists judge scientists, it is useful to keep in mind that scientific progress is mainly incremental and occasionally interrupted by leaps of novelty. JBR now enters a new exciting period of wider exposure and rigorous assessment. The Editors of JBR intend to follow the same principles that guided them to date in keeping on a tangent line with scientific progress and ethics of publishing.

Editorial 30(2)

<p>In this editorial we would like to discuss and comment on some of the some of the recent international developments in open access publishing as well as welcome the new members of our editorial board. As a journal with a long history of free open access with no charges for authors or readers, we have been able to avoid some of the complex decisions and trade-offs that authors, readers and institutions now have to make in choosing where to publish their work. Nevertheless, we feel that it would be valuable to explore some of the terminology around open access publishing to help readers and authors navigate the territory. In writing this editorial we have drawn upon some recent work undertaken by Laura Czerniewicz of the University of Cape Town, one of the new members of AJET’s Editorial Board (see below). Czerniewicz and Goodier (in press) undertook a case study of the practices of authors at one institution, along with the practices of the leading journals that these authors published in, with a focus on the consequences of the emergence of various open access publishing models.</p>

Academic opinions of Wikipedia and Open Access publishing

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to examine academics’ awareness of and attitudes towards Wikipedia and Open Access journals for academic publishing to better understand the perceived benefits and challenges of these models.Design/methodology/approach– Bases for analysis include comparison of the models, enumeration of their advantages and disadvantages, and investigation of Wikipedia's web structure in terms of potential for academic publishing. A web survey was administered via department-based invitations and listservs.Findings– The survey results show that: Wikipedia has perceived advantages and challenges in comparison to the Open Access model; the academic researchers’ increased familiarity is associated with increased comfort with these models; and the academic researchers’ attitudes towards these models are associated with their familiarity, academic environment, and professional status.Research limitations/implications– The major limitation of the study is sample size. The result of a power analysis with GPower shows that authors could only detect big effects in this study at statistical power 0.95. The authors call for larger sample studies that look further into this topic.Originality/value– This study contributes to the increasing interest in adjusting methods of creating and disseminating academic knowledge by providing empirical evidence of the academics’ experiences and attitudes towards the Open Access and Wikipedia publishing models. This paper provides a resource for researchers interested in scholarly communication and academic publishing, for research librarians, and for the academic community in general.

Build infrastructure in publishing scientific journals to benefit medical scientists.

There is urgent need for medical journals to optimize their publishing processes and strategies to satisfy the huge need for medical scientists to publish their articles, and then obtain better prestige and impact in scientific and research community. These strategies include optimizing the process of peer-review, utilizing open-access publishing models actively, finding ways of saving costs and getting revenue, smartly dealing with research fraud or misconduct, maintaining sound relationship with pharmaceutical companies, and managing to provide relevant and useful information for clinical practitioners and researchers. Scientists, publishers, societies and organizations need to work together to publish internationally renowned medical journals.

The e-artexte digital repository: Promoting open access in the Canadian contemporary arts research and publishing community

How can an open access publishing and distribution model benefit research in contemporary art? In 2013 Artexte, a non-profit organization dedicated to documenting contemporary art in Canada, launched the e-artexte open access digital repository to offer self-archiving services to publishers, authors and artists in Canadian contemporary art. Although the fine arts community has generally been slow to adopt open access, Canadian contemporary arts publishers, many of whom have small budgets and limited resources, are finding the open access e-artexte repository an effective means of increasing distribution of and access to their publications.

The Human Right to Benefit from Advances in Science and Promotion of Openly Accessible Publications

The article adopts a human rights perspective on the advent and proliferation of open access publishing models and policy goals, focusing primarily on the human right of everyone to benefit from progress in science and technology. While there is still room for developing more tenable and clear norms and delineating rights and obligations of individuals and states respectively in this regard, it is shown that states have an obligation to ensure the realisation of this right, and that there is a developing understanding of this obligation to include the promotion of open access to scientific knowledge. In an effort to further the discussion on open access publication, concrete examples of implementation of the principles of open access are presented and discussed.

Strategic issues for LIS practitioner-researcher journals

Strategic issues for LIS practitioner-researcher journals

What is the purpose of launching theWorld Journal of Clinical Cases?

The first issue of the World Journal of Clinical Cases (WJCC), whose preparatory work was initiated on October 26, 2012, will be published on April 16, 2013. The WJCC Editorial Board has now been established and consists of 520 distinguished experts from 55 countries. Our purpose of launching WJCC is to publish peer-reviewed, high-quality articles via an open-access online publishing model, thereby acting as a platform for communication between peers and the wider public, and maximizing the benefits to editorial board members, authors and readers.

Journal of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery – An ‘Open’ Letter to Our Authors and Readers

<i>Journal of Otolaryngology Head &amp; Neck Surgery</i> – An ‘Open’ Letter to Our Authors and Readers

Let's do it!

The shift of Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease to an Open Access publication model and a dedicated publishing house has now started to bear fruit. The so-called Impact Factor is one of several ranking indicators that are important for the development of a scientific journal, and I am therefore pleased to inform our authors and readers that, in July 2012, Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease was entered into online evaluation by Thomson Reuters (ISI), the company offering this citation indexing service. However, it will probably take 3-4 years before the journal actually obtains an official Impact Factor due to the way in which this factor is calculated. But now the process has started. Personally, my first priority is to publish highquality research papers that will be read by researchers all over the world; if these papers are also cited by these researchers, I will only be happy. (Published: 27 December 2012) Citation: Microbial Ecology in Health & Disease 2012, 23 : 20248 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/mehd.v23i0.20248