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Comparisons between the publishing models |
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| Conventional Publishing |
Open Access Publishing |
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| History of basic principles |
First printing press made by Johannes Gutenberg in 1440. Many printing companies worldwide. Significant recent consolidation. |
Internet first working in 1969. PDF files mimic printed page, and prevent alteration of content. BioMed Central publishes open access articles from 2000. |
| Copyright ownership |
Publisher |
Author |
| Payment for publishing articles |
Usually none, but some journals have a "per page" charge |
The institution, research funder, or author submitting the article |
| Payment for reading articles |
The readers through payment or subscriptions |
None |
| Submission |
Usually internet |
Internet |
| Publication |
Usually paper and internet |
Internet |
| Peer review |
Yes |
Yes |
| Time to publication after acceptance |
Highly variable, from same day posting of manuscript, to many months later in print |
Same day posting of manuscript with replacement by typeset final version some weeks later |
| Visibility |
Variable, other than for the abstract, and depends on cost of access |
High, with free full article access |
| Number of articles |
Limited by issue/volume pages |
Unlimited |
| Typical proponents |
Publishers |
Public and charitable funders: eg National Institutes of Health (USA), Wellcome Trust (UK), Medical Research Council (UK), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (USA) |
| Cost of use of colour |
$500–1000 per printed page |
None |
| Paper copy in hand |
Yes |
Only by printing the article |
| Embedding of cines |
Not on paper |
Yes, in the primary article |
| Citation index |
Yes |
Yes |
| Cited by PubMed and other scholarly search sites |
Yes |
Yes |
| Trend in citation index |
Neutral |
Increase through visibility |
| Long term archiving |
Yes |
Yes |
| Back archive |
Yes |
Yes |
Pennell Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2008 10:1 doi:10.1186/1532-429X-10-1 |
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