1. Open access publishing: Your research on the world stage Nandita Quaderi PhD (Publisher) Fiona Pring (Senior Acquisitions Editor) www.biomedcentral.com

2. BioMed Central Largest publisher of peer-reviewed open access (OA) journals Launched first open access journal in 2000 Now publishes 230 OA journals >100,000 peer-reviewed OA articles published Became part of Springer in 2008 Hosts SpringerOpen Membership scheme

3. What is open access?

4. The old world of access to knowledge

5. The new world of access to knowledge

6. OA in brief No subscriptions = no barriers to access Published articles immediately available online for free for everyone! Copyright remains with the author Major OA publishers - Article Processing Charges (APCs) Support from funding bodies and governmental agencies

7. Advantages of open access Very high visibility - Accessible from multiple sites - Indexed widely, eg PubMed - No barriers to dissemination Quality - Acceptance rates based purely on the quality of the submissions

8. Open Access Publishing, Then and Now… 20122000 And many more…

9. Open access in 2012 Over 7200 open access journals in the DOAJ Over 1000 OA journals are indexed by ISI Open access to research is now mandated in over 135 institutions and by over 50 funders Submissions to OA journals grew by over 35% between 2009 and 2010 OA firmly part of the mainstream

10. Growth in OA mandates Source: http://www.openscholarship.org/jcms/c_6226/open-access-policies-for-universities-and-research-institutions?hlText=policies

11. Impact Factor journals: open access market growth

12. Difference between subscription and open access models Both have –Editors, peer review, are indexed in ISI etc, have similar production processes, obey publication ethics OA journals also –Allow the contents to be immediately freely available online everywhere in perpetuity Different business models

13. The open access business model Commonly financed by Article Processing Charges (APCs) - usually paid by funders, institutions, societies, etc Some open access journals have central support, so no charges for authors or readers No charges for access

14. How authors cover APCs Results from survey by the Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP)

15. BioMed Central Membership For BioMed Central, SpringerOpen and Chemistry Central journals Institutions pay APCs in full or in part for their researchers Over 380 Member institutions worldwide, including - Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca - Universidade Estadual Paulista Ask your librarian to visit: http://www.biomedcentral.com/libraries/membership

16. Open access in a Brazilian context >650 journals in DOAJ 239 journals in SciELO Increasing numbers of submissions to BMC journals Diabetology and Metabolic SyndromeDiabetology and Metabolic Syndrome BMC journal Membership

17. How Brazilian authors cover APCs Results from survey by the Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP)

18. Publish a journal with us BioMed Central and SpringerOpen: –launch new OA journals –take on existing journals, both self-published and from other publishers Speak to us if you’re interested!

19. Case study Brazilian Society of Diabetes Launched 2009 First Impact Factor due in 2012

20. Thank you! nandita.quaderi@biomedcentral.com fiona.pring@biomedcentral.com www.biomedcentral.com