the transformation of academic publishing
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The slides from a 15 minute 'TED Style' presentation I made to the Medicine 2.0 Summit at Stanford on Sept 16th, 2011. Pete Binfield. Full video of the talk is at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Iguwaj6pQTRANSCRIPT
The Transformation of Academic Publishing
Peter BinfieldPublisher, PLoS
[email protected]@p_binfield
Leading a Transformation
in Research Communication
Today…
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25,000 JournalsPublishing 1.5 million papers per year
Mostly in ‘closed access’ subscription titles
• Free, immediate access
• Deposition in a digital public archive
• Unrestricted reuse
What is Open Access?
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Our ‘Key Innovation’ - the editorial criteria
PLoS ONE Published Articles(per quarter, since launch)
2011: 14,000 articles.~1.5% of ALL Scientific
Literature
2010: 6,700 articles.Largest journal in
the World
2007: 1,200 articles.> 99.7% of all journals
in the World
The Dawn of the OpenAccess MegaJournal
Today…
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Tomorrow?
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Thank you!
Peter Binfield Publisher, PLoS ONE
[email protected]@p_binfield
Leading a Transformation
in Research Communication