2. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Bioline International: A Model of Collaborative Open Access Publishing Leslie Chan Associate Director, Bioline International University of Toronto

3. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br History and Mission Established in 1993 Explore ways of using ICT to improve scientific communications Bridge the South-to-North Knowledge gap Improving visibility, accessibility, and research impact of science from developing countries

4. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br …History and Mission Making The “Lost Science” Visible Experimentation with online-only-journal Explore the impact and potential of open access Convert to fully open access provider in 2004

5. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Partners CRIA – Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental (Campanis, Brazil) www.cria.org.br www.cria.org.br (Reference Center for Environmental Information) Make scientific research useful and “useable” in a way that it can be incorporated in the definition of local, regional and national strategies for conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. Sidnei de Souza, Vanderlai Canhos, Dora Canhos

6. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br …Partners Publishers from Africa (Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda), Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Venezuela), Turkey and India See list of Journals University of Toronto Libraries

7. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Collaboration provides Shared resources and technology Zero to very low start up cost Tested technology Acts as PubMedCentral for less developed countries Cross-linking and hyper-linking Advantage of established ranking and search positions ( Google Scholar, ISI Web of Content) Full Integration with Eprints/T-Space server for long term archiving

8. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Three Aspects Service Research Development

9. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Services Free electronic publishing, distribution and archiving for participating journals Technical support for individual and library users Promotion of participating journals to library consortia and research institutions Connecting authors and publishers

10. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Research Will open access increase journal usage and sustainability? How do researchers in developing countries use publications and what is their citation pattern? Does the site of research publication affects the likely impact of research findings on medical practices (Ptolomy project)?

11. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Development Value-added services that improve citation and discovery (e.g. Species linking tool) Integration of open-source tools Create alternative low-cost and collaborative model of scholarly publishing that is also portable Technology transfer and human resource development (partnership with Electronic Publishing Trust for Development and others)

12. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Flow of information North to South is important for South South to South is also important as contexts are more relevant Is South to North important for North? Definitely yes: –Tropical and infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS, malaria, etc. –Alternative including herbal medicine –Epidemiological data –Epidemics and new diseases –Biodiversity for global understanding

13. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Problems with journals from DC Low Circulation Low submission Poor Visibility Lost impact The volume one, number one syndrome

14. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Breaking the cycle through open access Worldwide Circulation Increased Submission Improved Visibility Improved CitationOpen ACCESSACCESS

15. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br

16. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Journal of Postgraduate Medicine Started in 1955 Publication of Staff Society of GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, India Covers basic and clinical sciences Joined Bioline International in June 2002

17. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Role of JPGM in collaboration Content Promotion Linking from PubMed as LinkOut Technology transfer Encouraging other journals

18. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br What we achieved with open access More than one copy of full text openly available –Archives the published data More visibility and readers –More citations –More article submission –Articles from all around the world International recognition

19. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Vicious cycle --->Circle of Accessibility JPGMPubMed Directories e.g. DOAJ OAI servers Eprints, T-Space Bioline Search Engines Library catalogues OAI services e.g. OAIster.org

20. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Number of articles submitted, JPGM Data from D.K. Sahu

21. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Data from D.K. Sahu

22. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br International submissions Data from D.K. Sahu

23. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Countries UK USA & Canada Europeans SE Asia ME Aust. NZ Data from D.K. Sahu

24. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Effect on citations Data from D.K. Sahu ISI Impact Factor

25. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Increasing Citation

26. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Effect on subscription Data from D.K. Sahu

27. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Partnership issues Data transfer Maintenance and updates Copyright issues What if such collaboration breaks? Long term archiving?

28. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Lessons Learned Journals from DCs are tough to sell - no matter the quality Need to consider new sustainability models Conversion to open access is essential

29. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br …Lessons learned Aggregation is important Interoperability is crucial - OAI is the glue Journal funding should not be tied to subscription return - should be tied to impact

30. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Future Plans Expand the number of journals Promotion to library consortia XML for full text Multilingual content More sophisticated reference linking (OpenURL)

31. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br … Future plans Improve user interface and linking Better tracking of usage pattern - Ptolomy Project Multiple mirror sites for Bioline - India, Africa

32. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Conclusions Funding agencies must be clear on why they support journals in developing countries –Avoid the Volume 1, number 1 syndrome –Transition to open access with new business plan Government agencies should support and promote local journals - think beyond impact factor, promote open archives and sharing

33. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br …Conclusions Open access is only the essential first step. What to do with the open access material is even more critical.

34. OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 20-21 February 2005, Vilnius, Lithuania www.bioline.org.br Please visit http://www.bioline.org.br http://bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca (eprints server) http://tspace.library.utoronto.ca