IMPORTANT LINKS FROM LYNNE WRENNALL

[Alison J Stevens]

A new open access publishing outlet is now available. It presents quite
an interesting model. It says that it will publish any serious academic
paper and THEN peer review the paper! [It is free to readers and
authors].
http://www.webmedcentral.com/home

Academics who are unsure about the credibility of open access publishing may like to peruse the following references:

Former editor of the BMJ on changes in publishing. “Slowly but surely
these metrics will become much superior to using the impact factor of
the journal in which an article is published as a surrogate for the
impact of the article itself.”
Smith, R. 2009 The beginning of the end for impact factors and journals, British Medical Journal, 2 Nov.
http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/11/02/richard-smith-the-beginning-of-...

“…the Chief Executives of the Research Councils have agreed that over
time the UK Research Councils will support increased open access, by:
…extending their support for publishing in open access journals, including through the pay-to-publish model.”
Research Councils UK RCUK Access to Research Outputs: Position on issue of improved access to research outputs
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/default.htm

Watson, R. 2007 EC to promote open access publishing, BMJ 334;389.
http://www.bmj.com/content/334/7590/389.2.full?sid=4c474e33-a920-45...

Council of the European Union 2007 Communication on Scientific
Information in the Digital Age: Access, Dissemination and Preservation.
2832nd Competitiveness (Internal market, Industry and Research)
Council meeting Brussels, 22 and 23 Nov.
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/newsWord/en/intm/97236.doc.

Wellcome Trust 2008 Position statement in support of open and unrestricted access to published research, February.
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/Policy/Policy-and-position-state...

So far the available data includes…
• Article usage statistics - HTML pageviews, PDF downloads and XML downloads
• Citations from the scholarly literature – currently from PubMed Central, Scopus and CrossRef
• Social bookmarks - currently from CiteULike and Connotea
• Comments – left by readers of each article
• Notes – left by readers of each article
• Blog posts – aggregated from Postgenomic, Nature Blogs, Bloglines and ResearchBlogging.
• Ratings – left by readers of each article
Public Library of Science Research in Context.
http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/

Value-Lynne Wrennall.