{"id":588,"date":"2010-09-07T11:47:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T15:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/?p=588"},"modified":"2010-09-07T11:47:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T15:47:18","slug":"for-publishers-using-pmc-to-kill-multiple-birds-with-one-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/2010\/09\/07\/for-publishers-using-pmc-to-kill-multiple-birds-with-one-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"For publishers, using PMC to kill multiple birds with one stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/corehtml\/pmc\/pmcgifs\/pmclogo.gif\" alt=\"PubMed Central logo\" width=\"145\" height=\"75\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a clever way for a journal to efficiently and cost-effectively provide open access to its articles (at least in the life sciences): Use <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"PubMed Central\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov\/\">PubMed Central<\/a> as the journal&#8217;s article repository. This expedient has all kinds of advantages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/publicaccess.nih.gov\/\">You have to allow for PMC distribution anyway<\/a>, in fields where much of the research is <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"National Institutes of Health\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=39.000443,-77.102394&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=39.000443,-77.102394 (National%20Institutes%20of%20Health)&amp;t=h\">NIH<\/a> funded. Might as well make that version the version of record.<\/li>\n<li>PMC provides articles in multiple formats (XML, HTML, and PDF), and handles the format conversion for you.<\/li>\n<li>PMC provides pages for each issue as well as structured index pages for the full run.<\/li>\n<li>PMC&#8217;s user interface provides all kinds of added value for readers, like inline citation cross-linking, links to related articles and related citations, and other articles by the same authors. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2884311\/\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> an example.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/\">NCBI<\/a> has exceptional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/04\/26\/AR2006042602441.html\">Google juice<\/a>, so articles will appear high on Google and Google Scholar listings.<\/li>\n<li>Your authors don&#8217;t have to deal with the PMC process in addition to the publisher&#8217;s process, since they are one and the same.<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t have to worry about the headaches of running your own repository (though you may want to have branded pages linking to these articles that are more attractive than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/journals\/540\/\">those provided by PMC<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not likely that PMC is going to disappear any time soon, so you&#8217;ve got some built in access longevity.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s <em>free<\/em> to the publisher. PMC doesn&#8217;t charge for storing and distributing articles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I first heard about this idea a while ago at a PMC meeting in a discussion referring to\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/jbt.abrf.org\/\">Journal of Biomolecular Techniques<\/a><\/em>, which uses this approach. It seemed like an awfully good idea to me, and still does. <a href=\"http:\/\/publicaccess.nih.gov\/submit_process_journals.htm\">Almost a thousand journals<\/a> submit all of their final published articles to PMC, but I&#8217;m not sure how many do so without embargo and as the sole and definitive version of record.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;height: 15px\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none;float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=7b17859b-591b-4b9a-af36-925cf2472f39\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a clever way for a journal to efficiently and cost-effectively provide open access to its articles (at least in the life sciences): Use PubMed Central as the journal&#8217;s article repository. This expedient has all kinds of advantages: You have to allow for PMC distribution anyway, in fields where much of the research is NIH [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[618,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-access","category-scholarly-communication"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5pLfN-9u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1866,"url":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/pamphlet\/2013\/11\/21\/thoughts-on-founding-open-access-journals\/","url_meta":{"origin":588,"position":0},"title":"Thoughts on founding open-access journals","author":"Stuart Shieber","date":"Thursday, November 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2026 altogether too much concern with the contents of the journal\u2019s spine text\u2026 \u201creference\u201d image by flickr user Sara S. used by permission. 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