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Presented by:  Anthony Newman

Senior Publisher,

Elsevier, Amsterdam

Location/Date: Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana

February 2014

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1,4 million articles

in 23,000 journalsby 2,000 publishers

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Solicit and manage submissions

Manage peer review

Production

Publish and disseminate Edit and prepare

 Archive and promote

• 1,000 new editors per year• 20 new journals per year • 600,000+ article submissions per year

• 200,000 reviewers

• 1 million reviewer

reports per year

• 7,000 editors

• 70,000 editorial board

members

• 6.5 million author/publisher

communications /year

• 280,000 new articles produced per year

• 190 years of back issues scanned, processed and data-tagged

• 11 million

researchers

• 5,000+

institutions• 180+ countries

• 400 million+

downloads per

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pages per year

• 11 million articles

now available

• Organise editorial boards

• Launch new specialist

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• 40%-90% of

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!  Rapid conversion from “print” to “electronic”!  1997: print only

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!  Changing role of “journals” due to e-access

!  Increased usage of articles

!  at lower cost per article

!  Electronic submission

!  Increased manuscript inflow

!  Experimentation with new publishing models!  E.g. “author pays” models, “delayed open access”, etc.

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!  After acceptance, research is made

immediately, permanently open access

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content as defined by user licenses.

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Green Open Access

•  After publication and acceptance in a

subscription journal author publish in a journal

•  The article is immediately available to

subscribers

•  After a delayed period of time ( an embargo)

authors can post their manuscript to aninstitutional repository for public use

•  Applies to the accepted author manuscript and

preprint versions

•  Cost of publication are covered and dependent

on the subscription model.

Green Open Access

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Look for reputable journals 

Tips for publishing Gold Open Access?

Find theright

 journal

Collect keyinfo

Keep yourAAM

Make yourarticle OA

Publish OA

Check your funding body and

institution’s policies 

See your journal’s posting policy

Select a license and pay an OA fee 

Share the final version of your article! 

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Complying with new polices

Three key funder developments:

! Research Councils UK

! European Commission - Horizon 2020

! Every EU country to develop their own policy

! Office of Science and Technology Policy (US)

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!  Look at your references – these will help you narrow your

choices.

!  Review recent publications in each candidate journal. Find outthe hot topics, the accepted types of articles, etc.

!  Ask yourself the following questions:

!  Is the journal peer-reviewed to the right level?

!  Who is this journal’s audience?

!  How fast does it make a decision or publish your paper?

!  What is the journal’s Impact Factor?

!  Does it really exist or is dubious? (check for example Beall’s

List of Predatory Open Access Publishers)

!  DO NOT gamble by submitting your manuscript to more thanone journal at a time.

!  International ethics standards prohibit multiple/simultaneoussubmissions, and editors DO find out! (Trust us, they DO!) 

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!  Is your paper of local or internationalinterest 

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it. My rule of thumb is that if there are more than 6 grammatical errors

in the abstract, then I don't waste my time carefully reading the rest.”

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specifications

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higher intravenous administration retention concentration, but which is not in

accordance with the result, and therefore the more rational interpretation

should be that SLN with mean diameter of 46nm is greatly different from

emulsion with mean diameter of 65 nm in entering tumor, namely, it isprobably difficult for emulsion to enter and exit from tumor blood vessel as

freely as SLN, which may be caused by the fact that the tumor blood vessel

aperture is smaller.” 

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additional experiments

!  Minor revision

!  Basically, the manuscript is worth being published

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restructured, shortened (often) or expanded (rarely)

!  Textual adaptations

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!  Prepare a detailed Response Letter!  Copy-paste each reviewer comment, and type your response below it!  State specifically which changes you have made to the manuscript

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accordingly.”

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!  ..... or a convincing, solid and polite rebuttal when you feel the reviewer was

wrong.

!  Write in such a manner, that your response can be forwarded to the reviewerwithout prior editing

!  Do not do yourself a disfavour, but cherish your work!  You spent weeks and months in the lab or the library to do the research

!  It took you weeks to write the manuscript......... 

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by not taking manuscript revision seriously?

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paper.

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accepted, and being in the 30% (accepted) not the 70%

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Scientific misconduct!  Falsification of results

Publication misconduct!  Plagiarism

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responsibility to society , the reputation of our institution, the trustbetween the public and the biomedical research community, and

our personal credibility and that of our mentors, colleagues!”

“It can waste the time of others, trying to replicate false data ordesigning experiments based on false premises, and can lead to

therapeutic errors. It can never be tolerated.”Professor Richard Hawkes

Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy

University of Calgary

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