Open Access
and
Open Peer Review
Fiona Godlee
Editorial Director for Medicine
BioMed Central
Open access
“Is this a starry eyed
egalitarian spoof, a
communist plot, or is
it ivory tower
academics on the
loose?”
Pieter Bolman, New York
“Sera que se trata de
piada egalitaria
ingenua, uma trama
comunista, ou
academicos soltos
numa torre de
marfim?”
What do our consumers want?
Authors want
• Wide dissemination
Os autores querem
• Divulgacao ampla
Users want
• Unrestricted access
Os usuarios querem
• Acesso irrestrito
But they also want peer review
Authors want
• Stamp of approval
• Face saving
Os autores querem
• O selo de aprovacao
• Salvar as aparencias
Users want
• Guarantee of quality
• Filtering
• Context setting
Os usuarios querem
• Garantia de qualidade
• Selecao
• Colocacao no contexto
The cost of peer review
% of total budget
Reviewer database
Staff time
Correspondence
Payment to reviewers
<0.1-1.9
1.3-1.9
<0.1-2.6
0.0-0.8
TOTAL
2.6-7.5
Fletcher and Fletcher, Peer Review in
Health Sciences, BMJPG 1999
Who pays for peer review?
• Page charges
• Government grants
• Society members
• Commercial models
• Cobranca de custo de
paginas
• Auxilios
governamentais
• Membros das
sociedades
• Modelos comerciais
BMC’s role in LDCs
• Open access
• Lower barrier to entry
• Matching standard of
reviewer to paper
• Technical support for
independent journals
• High visibility
• Acesso aberto
• Uma barreira menor
contra a publicacao
• Parear o nivel do
revisor com o trabalho
• Apoio tecnico para
revistas independentes
• Alta visibilidade
The challenge of open access
• How to fund peer
review
• How to make peer
review as efficient and
inexpensive as
possible
• Como pagar pela
revisao por pares
• Como fazer com que a
revisao por pares seja
o mais eficiente e
menos cara possivel
biomedcentral.com
What is BioMed Central?
• A peer review entity
• An umbrella site for
independent
biomedical journals
• A site providing tools
for authors and users
• Uma entidade que
realiza revisao por
pares
• Um sitio hospedeiro
para revistas
biomedicas
independentes
• Um sitio que fornece
ferramentas para os
autores e usuarios
Key principles
• Free access to
primary science
• Authors retain
copyright
• Immediate posting on
PubMed Central
• Bias towards
publication
• Acesso livre a toda a
ciencia primaria
• O “copyright”
permanece com o
autor
• Apoia o PubMed
Central
• Tendencia a favorecer
a publicacao
Peer review at BioMed Central
• Fast, but not
automated
• Open
• Conflicts of interest
declared
• Exchange of reviews
• Match standard of
paper to reviewer
• Rapida, mas nao
automatizada
• Aberta
• Solicitacao de
declaracao de conflito
de interesses
• Revisoes cruzadas
• Parear o nivel do
trabalho com o revisor
Filters/Navigation/Context
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Searching tools
Abstracting services
Expert selections
Criteria based selections
Help with writing and
presenting papers
• Statistical tools
• Reviews and
commentaries
• Ferramentas para
localizacao de informacao
• Sinopses dos trabalhos
• Selecao de revisores
altamente qualificados
• Selecao baseada em
criterios
• Assistencia com a redacao
e apresentacao dos
trabalhos
• Ferramentas estatisticas
• Revisoes e comentarios
How will BMC get papers?
• Editorial directorate
and advisors
• Lobby granting bodies
and institutions
• Market to authors
publishing in low
impact journals
• Hosting of
independent journals
• Diretorio editorial e de
consultores
• Persuadir as agencias de
financiamento e as
instituicoes
• Persuadir os autores que
publicam em revistas de
baixo impacto
• Hospedar revistas
independentes
How will BMC make money?
• Advertising
• Subscriptions (for
tools and reviews)
• Reduce costs of PR
• Publicidade
• Assinaturas (a respeito
das ferramentas e das
revisoes)
• Reduzir os custos da
revisao por pares
Open Peer Review
A new vision for peer review
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Visible
Accountable
Rewarded
Mentoring
On going
WAME
World Association of Medical Editors
wame.org