For publishers, using PMC to kill multiple birds with one stone

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"Here’s a clever way for a journal to efficiently and cost-effectively provide open access to its articles (at least in the life sciences): Use PubMed Central as the journal’s article repository. This expedient has all kinds of advantages: You have to allow for PMC distribution anyway, in fields where much of the research is NIH funded. Might as well make that version the version of record. PMC provides articles in multiple formats (XML, HTML, and PDF), and handles the format conversion for you....I first heard about this idea a while ago at a PMC meeting in a discussion referring to Journal of Biomolecular Techniques, which uses this approach. It seemed like an awfully good idea to me, and still does. Almost a thousand journals submit all of their final published articles to PMC, but I’m not sure how many do so without embargo and as the sole and definitive version of record."

Link:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2010/09/07/for-publishers-using-pmc-to-kill-multiple-birds-with-one-stone/

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Tags:

oa.medicine oa.biology oa.new oa.gold oa.publishers oa.green oa.pmc oa.repositories oa.journals

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 16:29

Date published:

09/07/2010, 22:52