Introduction of article-processing charges (APCs) for articles accepted for publication in the Journal of Translational
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Editorial
Introduction of article-processing charges (APCs) for articles accepted for publication in the Journal of Translational Medicine Francesco M Marincola* Address: Immunogenetics Section, Clinical Center, Department of Transfusion Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA Email: Francesco M Marincola* - [email protected] * Corresponding author
Published: 08 December 2003 Journal of Translational Medicine 2003, 1:11
Received: 05 December 2003 Accepted: 08 December 2003
This article is available from: http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/1/1/11 © 2003 Marincola; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original URL.
Introduction The Journal of Translational Medicine is published by BioMed Central, an independent publisher committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is Open Access – it is universally and freely available online to everyone, its authors retain copyright, and it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free repository [1]. The Journal of Translational Medicine however, has taken this further, by making all content Open Access. To fund this, from the 1st of February, 2004 authors of articles accepted for publication will be asked to pay an articleprocessing charge (APC) of US$525.
Problems with the traditional publishing model Traditionally, readers pay to access articles, either through subscriptions or by paying a fee each time they download an article. Escalating journal subscriptions have resulted in libraries subscribing to fewer journals [2], and the range of articles available to readers is therefore limited. Although traditional journals publish authors' work for free (unless there are page or colour charges), having to pay to access articles limits how many can read, use and cite them.
Definition of Open Access The Journal of Translational Medicine's Open Access policy changes the way in which articles are published. First, all articles become freely and universally accessible online, and so an author's work can be read by anyone at no cost. Second, the authors hold copyright for their work and grant anyone the right to reproduce and disseminate the article, provided that it is correctly cited and no errors are introduced [1]. Third, a copy of the full text of each Open Access article is archived in an online repository separate
from the journal. The Journal of Translational Medicine's articles are archived in PubMed Central [3], the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature; e-Depot [4], the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications; and Potsdam [5] and INIST [6], sites archiving the research articles published by BioMed Central in Germany and France, respectively.
The benefits of Open Access Open Access has four broad benefits for science and the general p
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