Sheila P. Davis, PhD, RN, FAAN Editor Online Journal of Health Ethics Professor University of Southern Mississippi
Presentation Outline Personal Start up Experiences of Online Journal of Health Ethics Scholarship of Open Access Journals Impact Factor, Tenure and Promotion Submission Cost Issues Grant Mandated Contributions to Open Access Repositories Institutional Considerations for Faculty Keys to Success
What is an Open Access Journal? Open Access Journal: We define open access journals as journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. From the BOAI definition [1] of "open access" we take the right of users to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles" as mandatory for a journal to be included in the directory. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/boaifaq.htm#openaccess
Open Access Journal Quality Control: The journal must exercise peer review or editorial quality control to be included. Research Journal: Journals that report primary results of research or overviews of research results to a scholarly community. Periodical: A serial appearing or intended to appear indefinitely at regular intervals, generally more frequently than annually, each issue of which is numbered or dated consecutively and normally contains separate articles, stories, or other writings.
Personal Start Up Experiences Development of Interdisciplinary Class 10 years ago @ University of Mississippi Medical Center Institutional Climate Favorable for Ethics Dr. Nancy O Neal Tatum Institutional Web link of student papers Ethics contact person for community Funded Grant Public domain for hosting the journal
The Online Journal of Health Ethics (OJHE) ojhe.org
Dedication of OJHE: Dr. Nancy O Neal Tatum
New Movements The Internet has revolutionized the production of, and access to academic journals, with their contents available online via services subscribed to by academic libraries. Individual articles are subject indexed in databases such as Google Scholar.
New Movements Blog Format Publishing Repository Publishing To date, open access has affected science journals more than humanities journal. Commercial publishers are now experimenting with open access models while still trying to protect their subscription revenues.
The Decider of Scholarship
Impact Factor, Tenure & Promotion An important point to make here is that electroniconly and open access publishing are in every way compatible with the rigorous peer review system that is central to scholarly communication. As Peter Suber puts it, "All the major open access initiatives agree that peer review is essential to scientific journals, whether these journals are online or in print, free of charge or 'priced'. Open access removes the barrier of price, not the filter of quality control" http://www.library.illinois.edu/scholcomm/academicpromotion.html
Submission Fees Charges levied on authors for submission of a manuscript to a journal administrative or handling charges. Typically non refundable Different from charges levied for acceptance of the article such as the article processing charge ( APC) in open access journals, or color charges or page charges in subscription based journals.
Submission and Costs of OA www.markwareconsulting.com Report on study commissioned by Knowledge Exchange (www.knowledge exchange. Study of the feasibility of a submission fee in open access journals. Literature review Development of possible models for submission fees within open access tested with relevant stakeholders 40 interviews with publishers, libraries, research funders, research institutions and individual researchers.
Examples of Journals using Submission Fees Journal Publisher OA? Submission fee American Physiological Society Journal of Political Economy J. Physiological Pharmacology Journal of Nutrition American Physiological Society Chicago University Press Polish Physiological Society American Society for Nutrition Impact Factor No 50 Varies No 125 75 (member) 3.7 Yes 45 4.5 N 75 3.6 Hereditas Wiley Y 150 1.2
Benefits and Disadvantages of Submission Fees Perceived Disadvantages.Might deter authors, thus putting journals adopting submission fess at a disadvantage, and making it difficult to introduce to a field without any prior experience of submission fees. Possible impacts on authors without research funds or from poorer economies. Need for separate system to collect and administer the payments and for their reimbursements Perceived Benefits. Deters frivolous, premature, unrealistic or long shot submissions. Improves journal quality by reducing submission numbers, and reducing pressure on editors and reviewers.reduces load on all reviewers.fairness: rejected authors as well as accepted authors contribute to costs of peer review
Grant Mandated Contributions to Open Access Repositories Kim s ( 2007) work on motivating and impending factors affecting faculty contributions to institutional repositories ( IR) found: mandates of funders of grants significantly impacted on one s decision to make or not make materials publicly accessible on the Internet was influenced by one s grantawarding body. Would be interested in hearing from the audience experiences they have had as it relates to mandates from funders regarding the submission of results of grants. http://journals.td1.org/jodi/index.php/jodi/rt/printerfriendly/193/177
Institutional Considerations for Faculty Know your institution s policy on promotion and tenure. Find out as much as you can about quality of the OA publication prior to submitting your work. Be aware that with the increasing strains on the economy, many more publications will revert to the online format. Experiment with Institutional Repositories, Blogging, Tweeting, Slide share and other formats to join the research and scholarship community in your area. Get your name out.
Keys for Success for Editors of Online Journals Choose reviewers who will meet the deadlines of the journals. Sort out ownership issues. Who owns the journal? Request release time. Determine early who is your target audience. Know your own philosophy regarding publications. Are you facilitative or restrictive? It will be imperative that you have good technical support. If your university has an Institutional Repository, investigate this avenue for hosting your journal. Explore funds for marketing.
Select References See websites embedded in text. Suber, P. (2012). Open access. Cambridge: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series.