1. Creating a New ‘Gratis Open Access’ Family Medicine Research Journal Laura A. McLellan, MLS Case Western Reserve University Family Medicine Research Division laura.mclellan@case.edu

2. AAFP 1997 “Plan to Enhance Family Practice Research”

6. Creation of the 501(3)(c) Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.

7. ‘Gratis’ Open Access Commercial Advertising Industry- funded Supplements Author Charges

8. Gratis vs. Libre = Free of charge vs. Free of restrictions http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/08-02-08.htm

9. 2002-3 Annals Team Editor Kurt C. Stange, MD PhD Senior Associate Editor William R. Phillips, MD MPH Associate Editors Louise S. Acheson, MD Benjamin F. Crabtree, PhD Statistical Editor Stephen J. Zyzanski, PhD Consulting Editor William L. Miller, MD MA Reflections Editor & Editorial Coordinator Robin S. Gotler, MA Editorial Assistant Laura A. McLellan, MLS AAFP Publications Division Managing Editor Claire Zimmerman Editorial Assistant Elizabeth Anderson, MLS Editorial Director (all AAFP pubs.) Bob Edsall Publisher (all AAFP pubs.) Joetta Melton

10. 2003 Editorial Board 27 members on initial advisory (not review) board Expertise: Family Medicine Internal Medicine Pediatrics Nursing Public Health Sociology Epidemiology Psychology Social Science Patient Advocacy Nation: United States Canada United Kingdom South Africa Setting: Practice Education Policy CBPR PBRN

11. 2003 Peer Reviewers: (n  600) Largest categories by primary discipline and country Family Medicine Psychology Epidemiology Health Services Research Internal Medicine Pediatrics Pharmacology Nursing Social Science Education Sociology Statistics Public Health United States Canada United Kingdom Netherlands New Zealand

12. Review Process Annals of Family Medicine Receive online Review for Completeness Editor review Peer review Resubmit if needed Associate editor review Draft decision letter Decision letter Reject Submit elsewhere (or challenge) AcceptRevise & resubmit Editors’ conference

13. Review Process Annals of Family Medicine Acceptance Copy editing & layout Queries & proofs Return in < 48 hrs Publish online & in printParticipate in online discussion Recommend discussants

14. 2002 website

15. Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press(TM) assists in the publication of Annals of Family Medicine Online Mission: The Annals of Family Medicine is dedicated to advancing knowledge essential to understanding and improving health and primary care. The Annals supports a learning community of those who generate and use information about health and generalist health care.

16. Original Research: Clinical, biomedical, behavioral, and social sciences Health services, health care systems, and policy. Methodology: Articles that propose new methods Extend existing methods Provide new approaches to integrating methods for primary care research. Articles

17. Systematic Reviews: Selected systematic reviews that build on what is known to advance theory or methods, or to identify new research directions Meta-analyses and economic and decision analyses that use rigorous methods to synthesize information to answer questions of importance to health and primary health care Reviews should describe explicit methods to define questions, identify current knowledge, and propose new work. Articles

18. Theory: Explore problems unique to generalist practice Develop models of how family medicine and primary care can best meet important health care needs of individuals, families, or communities At the level of illness, individual, community, patient- clinician interaction, generalist/specialist interface, practice organization, or health care system New models should be tied to existing theory and grounded in research or other experience Work that transcends disciplinary boundaries is encouraged. Articles

19. Essays (“Reflections”) : Reflections of clinicians, scientists, patients, families, health care leaders, and policy makers Stories of personal experience Persuasive essays that present a point of view or course of action Explanatory essays that share information, describe a topic, or offer a definition. Articles

20. Special Reports: Important cutting-edge topics that do not fit into other article categories Topics relevant to primary care and improving health or health care Editorials: Editorials are published only in response to specific invitations from the editors

21. Letters TRACK eLetters TRACK = Topical Response to the Annals Community of Knowledge Respond to published articles Replaces letters to the editor Readers, authors, others

22. Annals does NOT publish: Case reports Clinical updates Expert reviews Reviews of books or software Fiction or poetry

23. Volume 1, Issue 1 May/June 2003

24. Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press(TM) assists in the publication of Annals of Family Medicine Online Current issue Current issue Sep/Oct 2003 Past issues Past issues May/June 2003- Sep/Oct 2003 Search the Annals Online Discussions Discussion of articles Discussion of other topics Discussion of articles Discussion of other topics Employment Opportunities 2003 website

26. Indexing Feb2004 MEDLINE acceptance July2004 ISI Web of Science/SCI/Current Contents Aug2004 EMBASE Jan2005 PsychINFO June2006 PubMed Central (retrospective to v1i1) June2007 First inclusion in Journal Citation Reports (2006 edition)

27. 2007 Sponsors of the 501(3)(c) Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.

28. ‘Gratis’ Open Access Commercial Advertising Industry- funded Supplements Author Charges

29. Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press ® assists in the publication of Annals of Family Medicine Online Current issue May/June 2008 The Issue In Brief Journal Club Past issues May/June 2003- Mar/Apr 2008 Search the Annals Discussion of articles Employment Opportunities The Annals of Family Medicine is indexed in the MEDLINE, MEDLARS, Science Citation Index Expanded, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, PsycINFO, EMBASE, and CINAHL databases. The Annals deposits all published content in PubMed Central. Online ISSN: 1544-1717 Print ISSN: 1544-1709 2008 website

30. Submission Trend Manuscripts 2003 – 2012

31. Online Readership Computers in 180+ countries/top-level domains have connected to AnnFamMed.org 20072012 Avg. Total Accesses (per month) 79,911170,329 Avg. Unique IP Accesses (per month) 28,57435,702 *Numbers exclude bot accesses

32. Monthly Accesses May 2003 – Jan 2013

33. eLetters Directory May 30, 2003 – Dec 31, 2012 2,426 total eLetters published

34. Impact Factor: 5.35 Top 20 of general/internal medicine category: #14 out of 153 Primary health care category: #1 of 14 Immediacy Index: 2.43 Measures how soon articles are cited after publication: #8 of 153 Article Influence Score: 2.065 Ratio of citation influence to size of article contribution: #11 of 153 Journal Citation Reports 2011

35. 2012 Editorial Advisory Board 34 members Expertise/Role: Family Medicine Internal Medicine Pediatrics Public Health Epidemiology Psychology Social Science Physician Assistant Medical Librarian Patient Medical Student Family Med. Resident Nation: United States Canada United Kingdom South Africa Australia The Netherlands

36. Editor Kurt C. Stange, MD PhD Senior Associate Editor William R. Phillips, MD MPH Associate Editors Louise S. Acheson, MD Bijal Balasubramanian, MBBS PhD Elizabeth A. Bayliss, MD MSPH Deborah J. Cohen, PhD Robert L. Ferrer, MD MPH John J. Frey III, MD James M. Gill, MD MPH Robert L. Williams, MD MPH Consulting Editor Paul A. Nutting, MD MSPH Consulting Statistical Editor Stephen J. Zyzanski, PhD Reflections Editor & Ed. Coord. Robin S. Gotler, MA Editorial Assistant Laura A. McLellan, MLS AAFP Publications Division Managing Editor Claire Zimmerman Editorial Assistant Elizabeth Anderson, MLS Publisher (all AAFP pubs.) Stephanie Hanaway 2013 Annals Team

37. Volume 11, Issue 2 Mar/Apr 2013

39. New Features: RSS and Collected Papers Proposed Autumn 2007 Implemented Winter 2008-9 RSS Feeds Hundreds $$ for initial set-up Hundreds $$ for yearly maintenance Collected Papers: Article categories Thousands $$$ for initial set-up Hundreds $$ for yearly maintenance Collected Papers: Subject categories (costs based on complexity of categorization) Thousands $$$$ for initial set-up Hundreds $$ for yearly maintenance

40. 2012

41. @AnnFamMed

42. 2012 website

43. Published April 2013 Selection of 41 essays in 7 themes

44. Special thanks to these current & former members of the Annals team Kurt Stange, MD PhD, Editor Bill Phillips, MD MPH, Sr. Assoc. Editor Associate/Consulting Editors Louise Acheson, MD Bijal Balasubramanian, MBBS PhD Liz Bayliss, MD MSPH Deb Cohen, PhD Ben Crabtree, PhD Bob Ferrer, MD MPH John Frey, MD Jim Gill, MD MPH Will Miller, MD MA Paul Nutting, MD MSPH Rob Williams, MD MPH Steve Zyzanski, PhD, Statistical Editor Robin Gotler, MA, Reflections Editor & Editorial Coordinator Claire Zimmerman, Managing Editor Beth Anderson, MLS, Editorial Assistant Bob Edsall, Editorial Director

45. Annals of Family Medicine: AnnFamMed.org AnnFamMed@case.edu Facebook.com/AnnFamMed @AnnFamMed Laura: @kiwano1 Laura.McLellan@case.edu Laura.McLellan@gmail.com