{"id":97,"date":"2009-07-09T15:27:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T23:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/?p=97"},"modified":"2009-07-13T12:49:25","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T20:49:25","slug":"10-years-experience-with-open-access-publishing-and-the-development-of-open-access-software-tools-the-session-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/2009\/07\/09\/10-years-experience-with-open-access-publishing-and-the-development-of-open-access-software-tools-the-session-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Years Experience with Open Access Publishing and the Development of Open Access Software Tools: The Session Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Presenter:<\/strong> Gunther Eysenbach<\/p>\n

July 9, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

\"Gunther
Gunther Eysenbach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gunther Eysenbach <\/a>is editor\/publisher of the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR<\/a>), which has presently been established as the <\/em>top peer-reviewed journal in the field of ehealth.<\/p>\n

Eysenbach<\/a> is also an associate professor with the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (HPME<\/a>) at the University of Toronto<\/a>.\u00a0 In addition, he is a senior scientist for the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation.\u00a0 The JMIR boasts an impact factor<\/a> of 3.0 which is highly ranked within other journals of health and sciences (Eysenbach2009).<\/p>\n

Session Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eysenbach have a condensed version during his session discussion due to time constraints but he managed to give the audience the key elements of where JMIR began to its present developments.\u00a0 He referred to the main concepts of JMIR being described as triple ‘o’ (open access, open source, open peer-reviewed).\u00a0 The basis of his talk was to explain the evolution and modifications that JMIR uses to continue to develop and publish online medical journals.<\/p>\n

JMIR has developed a system that allows many facets of the publishing of journals to interface with online Web based technologies.\u00a0 JMIR’s structure uses the concept of OJS <\/a>but also has adapted the business model to keep up with the ever changing structures of the Web.\u00a0 For example, JMIR has developed a system that re-bundles the topics of the journal collections called eCollections to place common topic journals together.<\/p>\n

There are three levels of membership\/subscription.\u00a0 Individual membership, institutional membership and institutional membership B (Gold).\u00a0 The online business model supports complex innovations such as the generating of electronic invoices for members, automatic word check for plagiarism of author submissions and fast track editing options.<\/p>\n

JMIR also experimented with open peer-review systems and found that approximately 20% of the authors want open peer-review but JMIR continues to look at this issue and currently has a section on the submission form for authors to be self assigned or editor assigned.\u00a0 The editors can view what is called the Submissions Dashboard <\/em>to get a visual charting of the various submissions and the status whether it me a fast track edit or not and the editor can track the submissions status.<\/p>\n

JMIR’s system also integrates XML into OJS with conversion scripts and the system can edit XML<\/a> files online.\u00a0 Also, there is WebCite<\/a> which is an on-demand archiving system used so that readers and authors can have the same version of file.<\/p>\n

Audience Input
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Questions arose around copyright issues which Eysenbach addressed that JMIR uses “fair use” policies and that submission forms invite authors to inform the journal if they want their work archived or not.<\/p>\n

Costs of membership for developing countries was also a question from the floor and Eysenbach responded to inform the audience that various models are currently being looked at – possibly increasing membership fees to subsidize developing country authors but the issue around subsidizing criteria has yet to be worked out.\u00a0 This was recognized as a dilemma.<\/p>\n

References<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eysenbach, G. (2009). Open Access journal JMIR rises to top of its discipline. Retrieved July 7, 2009, from http:\/\/gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/open-access-journal-jmir-rises-to-top.html<\/p>\n

Related Links<\/strong><\/p>\n

Research at University Health Network<\/a><\/p>\n

PubMed<\/a><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Presenter: Gunther Eysenbach July 9, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. Background Gunther Eysenbach is editor\/publisher of the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), which has presently been established as the top peer-reviewed journal in the field of ehealth. Eysenbach is also an associate professor with the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (HPME) at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4353],"tags":[4606,4479,4383],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editor-themed-sessions","tag-journal_of_medical_research","tag-webcite","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/pkp2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}