Mali Medical in few words Prof. S. Sidibe Editor in Chief of Mali Medical Chair of FAME

Background 1975 : Mali Medical first issue was published : between one and four issues / year 1996 : New editorial board : Support from – Ministere of Health – Ministere of Education – Faculty of Medicine 1998 : recognized by CAMES Since 2001 : Lack of funding 2003: Partnership´s establissment

Mali Medical´s structural features Mali Medical – Publication organ of Medical Society of Mali – Quaterly general biomedical journal Editorial board : 7 volunteer persons – Director of publication – 3 editors – Treasurer National and international peer review committee Managing editor

Mali Medical publication´s process More than 80 manuscripts / years – 60% from African french speaking countries Submission and peer review process – Guidelines for contributors (author and reviewer) – Submission and review through hard copy – 2 independant reviewers for each manuscript Double blind process Four issues per year Rejection rate 42,8% (2007)

Mali Medical distribution and dissemination Distribution – No subscribers but we distribute free copies : Local – Individual : 60 – Institution : 4 (60 copies per issue) Foreign – Institution (free copies) » Library for African french speaking medical schools : 12 (5 copies each / issue) » WHO Geneva : 5 copies/issue » WHO Afro Brazzaville : 5 copies/issue

Mali Medical distribution and dissemination Readership – Oneline publication with open access : 2004 – Indexed in Medline : 2006 – ISSN : 2006

Mali Medical financial operation Locally – Lack of financial support No subscribers No support from institutions Submission fees : less than 10 €/manuscript – Reduction of number of copy / issue – Perspectives Majoration of submission fees Obligatory subscription for all medical school teachers

Mali Medical financial operation Partnership subvention – Equipement : 2006 – Training (regional workshops) Peer review : 2006 Journal managing : 2009 – Managing editor salary August July 2008 June May 2010

Mali Medical submission and publication information Yearmanuscripts submited Articles published Manuscripts rejected Remarque (31,8%) (41,3%) (42,8%) (36,2%)*37 (PRP) 2009 (30 April)506PRP

Majors improvements Fair energetic and enthusiastic editors Under partnership – Workshops on Writen and reading scientific manuscript Managing a journal – Equipement – Indexation on Medline

Majors improvements Consequency – Regional area for training in scientific publication – More than 100 manuscripts per year (since 2008) 60 from others french speaking countries (since 2006) – On time publication of issues Publication rate : 57,2% (training results)

So our challenge Manuscripts handling times and flow in Mali Medical in 2009 – Day 1: manuscript arrives; registration and acknoledge to authors – Day 2 to15 : prereview by editor in chief and reviewer designation – Day 16 to 45 : peer reviewers – Day 46 to 60 : sent for revision or refused – Day 61 to 100 : revised manuscript reception – day 120 : decision sent to author, thank to reviewer

SWOT analysis S – Editorial board as a leader, specially editors / CAMES recognization – Regional medical journal / on time and online publication / Medline indexed journal – More and more manuscripts every year – National and regional peer reviewer committee W – Lack of financial support O – Young authors – Regional training center on scientific publication – Agrement of a librarian to join the editorial board T – Editorial board is not attactive for Young reseachers

SOS Need to extend partnership project to more journals published in french without forgoten those published in spanish and portugesis within Africa (FAME Chair).

Thank you for your attention