by Dr. William Sivitz, Professor of Internal Medicine

I recently published an article in PlosOne (Mitochondrial Targeted Coenzyme Q, Superoxide, and Fuel Selectivity in Endothelial Cells by Brian D. Fink, Yunxia O’Malley, Brian L. Dake, Nicolette C. Ross, Thomas E. Prisinzano, and William I. Sivitz). I found the process straightforward and faster than most other journals. The peer review was thorough but fair. I hope to see this used more frequently.

by Dr. Michael Knudson, Association Professor of Pathology

We published in Plos One and found it a very satisfying experience.  Quick, insightful reviews, no charge for color figures and no copyright forms to sign.

The journal allows readers to provide feedback and ratings of each article.  I would recommend Open Access to all.

by Dr. Christopher Squier, Professor, College of Dentistry and Christine White, Librarian, College of Dentistry

Traditionally, the cost of publishing articles in print journals has been borne (apart from page charges for lengthy articles or colored illustrations) by the publisher, based on income, from subscriptions from readers or libraries. This is reasonable considering the high cost of supporting the scholarship that forms the basis of a publication. With open access articles, however, there is now a movement towards freely providing the material to the reader but shifting the cost of publication on the scholar. Fees, which may range from $500 to $3000, are requested from the author, although in a few situations, voluntary donations are solicited to help support a journal (e.g., Edward H. Angle Society of Orthodontists / Angle Orthodontist), or the publication may be subsidized by a publisher’s other journals, as acknowledged by PLoS. Other mechanisms include support from advertisers, such as the Journal of Chemical Education, which notes that “advertising in the Journal plays a significant role in helping to keep your subscription affordable,” or sponsored by an open access individual/institutional membership fee, which provides discounts to authors based on the number of articles submitted for publication (e.g., Bentham Open: http://bentham.org/open/).

There are good reasons to resist moving the costs of publication from the publisher to the author, even when there may be grant or institutional funding to support this. The major objection is the temptation to base publication on the ability to pay rather than on the quality of work, as determined by peers. When costs are passed onto grants or academic institutions, the sponsor is, in effect, paying twice: once for the cost of doing the research and again to publish it, and the support available for new research is reduced. Of course, it could be argued that the institution pays when it purchases subscriptions, but because a large number of academic and industrial organizations all do this, the cost is spread over a large pool.

Should the reader be allowed free access as well as open access? Should the traditional balance be kept between authors, institutions and publishers? These are questions that we must continue to discuss.

We invite you to join us to hear Molly Kleinman, Special Assistant to the Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan and a copyright specialist, talk about it: “Open Access or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Internet” at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 20th in the Bijou at the Iowa Memorial Union. 

This event is part of UI Libraries’ celebration of Open Access Week, October 19-23, 2009. Also that week, we’ll be posting more useful information about open access including our UI colleagues own experiences with open access.

For more information about scholarly communication and your role in creating a
sustainable system, check the Libraries website (www.lib.uiowa.edu/scholarly).

Co-sponsors of this event include the University of Iowa Libraries, Department of Communication Studies, Graduate Student Senate, the UI Center for Human Rights, College of Public Health, Widernet, Executive Council of Graduate and Professional Students, and the Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry (POROI).

Any requests to keep a title should be sent to  linda-walton@uiowa.edu. I will need comments back by July 24th. Comments should be made about titles that will impact the commenter’s discipline. In other words, a physician should not comment on a dental title. A nurse should not comment on a pharmacy title, etc.

Thanks,

Linda Walton, M.L.S.
Associate University Librarian & Director
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
University of Iowa
600 Newton Road, Iowa City, IA 52242
319-335-9873; 319-353-3752 (FAX)

Articles in PubMed Central are available for students, researchers and member of the public to read without charges or login restrictions. 49,851 unique users downloaded 69,079 articles in the five months that the journal has been available in PubMed Central.

This project is a collaboration between the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Digital Library Services and Information Commons Production Services.

The BMJ, founded in 1840, features past issues and articles totaling more than 350,000 pages. BMJ will be offered through JSTOR’s Health & General Sciences Collection and is expected to be available to JSTOR participants in late 2007.

A total of five of the BMJ Group’s public health and ethics journals will be offered through JSTOR’s Health & General Sciences Collection, including the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Tobacco Control, the Journal of Medical Ethics, and Occupational and Environmental Medicine, in addition to the BMJ.

JSTOR has also begun to collaborate with Science News to make their back files available to JSTOR participants. Science News is an award-winning weekly periodical covering important research in all science fields. Science News began in 1922 as the Science News-Letter, whose articles focused on “the early days of atomic energy, the beginning of modern genetics, and many other developments.” Their publisher, Science Service, has a mission to “advance public understanding and appreciation of science among people of all ages through publications and educational programs.” Science News will also be available through the Health & General Sciences Collection with an anticipated availability of late 2007.

JSTOR’s Health & General Sciences Collection, formerly the General Science Collection, originally featured several of the most important historical scientific journals published: Science, PNAS, and the publications of the Royal Society of London. The back issues included in this archive extend back to the seventeenth century and in total covers more than eight hundred years of journal publication. In September 2006, the collection was renamed Health & General Sciences to reflect the inclusion of journals in the health sciences, including important journals in nursing, epidemiology, and other health sciences topics.

We are pleased to announce JSTOR’s collaboration with the British Medical Journal and Science News, as they will add further historical and topical depth to this collection. Participation fees for the Health & General Sciences Collection will remain unchanged, and existing participants will have access to these new titles as soon as they are publicly available. There will be no overlap of content between the Health & General Sciences Collection and any of the multi-discipline Arts & Sciences Collections or the Biological Sciences Collections in JSTOR. Two titles from the Health & General Sciences Collection will continue to be offered through the Mathematics & Statistics Collection: Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences and Proceedings: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences.

JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to create a trusted archive of scholarly journals and to increase access to those journals as widely as possible. For more information, please visit JSTOR at http://www.jstor.org.

AACN Advanced Critical Care
Academic Medicine
ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal
Addictive Disorders & Their Treatment
Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal
Advances in Anatomic Pathology
Advances in Nursing Science
Advances in Skin and Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing
Adverse Drug Reaction Bulletin
AIDS
AJN: American Journal of Nursing
Alzheimer’s Care Quarterly
Alzheimer’s Disease and Associated Disorders
American Journal of Clinical Oncology
American Journal of Dermatopathology
American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
American Journal of Surgical Pathology
American Journal of the Medical Sciences
American Journal of Therapeutics
Anesthesia & Analgesia
Anesthesiology
Annals of Plastic Surgery
Annals of Surgery
Anti-Cancer Drugs
Applied Immunohistochemistry & Molecular Morphology
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis & Vascular Biology
ASA Refresher Courses in Anesthesiology
ASAIO Journal
Back Letter, The
Behavioural Pharmacology
Biomedical Safety and Standards
Blood Coagulation & Fibrinolysis
Blood Pressure Monitoring
Bone & Joint
Cancer Nursing
Cardiology in Review
CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing
Circulation
Circulation Research
Clinical Dysmorphology
Clinical Journal of Pain
Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine
Clinical Neuropharmacology
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)
Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology
Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
Clinical Pulmonary Medicine
Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology
Contemporary Critical Care
Contemporary Diagnostic Radiology
Contemporary Neurosurgery
Contemporary Ophthalmology
Contemporary Optometry
Contemporary Spine Surgery
Continuum: Lifelong Learning in Neurology
Cornea
Coronary Artery Disease
Critical Care Medicine
Critical Care Nursing Quarterly
Critical Pathways in Cardiology: Journal
Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology
Current Opinion in Cardiology
Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care
Current Opinion in Critical Care
Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Obesity
Current Opinion in Gastroenterology
Current Opinion in Hematology
Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS
Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases
Current Opinion in Internal Medicine
Current Opinion in Lipidology
Current Opinion in Nephrology & Hypertension
Current Opinion in Neurology
Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Current Opinion in Oncology
Current Opinion in Ophthalmology
Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation
Current Opinion in Orthopaedics
Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery
Current Opinion in Pediatrics
Current Opinion in Psychiatry
Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine
Current Opinion in Rheumatology
Current Opinion in Urology
Diagnostic Molecular Pathology
Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing
Ear and Hearing
Endocrinologist, The
Epidemiology
European Journal of Cancer Prevention
European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation
European Journal of Emergency Medicine
European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Evidence-Based Gastroenterology
Evidence-Based Ophthalmology
Exercise and Sports Science Reviews
Eye and Contact Lense: Science and Clinical Practice
Family & Community Health
Gastroenterology Nursing
Genetics in Medicine
Health Care Management Review
Health Care Manager
Health Physics: The Radiation Safety Journal
Holistic Nursing Practice
Home Healthcare Nurse
Hypertension
Implant Dentistry
Infants & Young Children
Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice
Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery
International Anesthesiology Clinics
International Clinical Psychopharmacology
International Drug Therapy Newsletter
International Journal of Gynecological Pathology
International Journal of Rehabilitation Research
International Ophthalmology Clinics
Intervention
Investigative Radiology
JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes
JCR: Journal for Clinical Rheumatology
JONA’s Healthcare Law, Ethics, and Regulation
JONA: Journal of Nursing Administration
Journal for Nurses in Staff Development(JNSD)
Journal of Ambulatory Care Management
Journal of Bronchology
Journal of Burn Care & Research
Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention
Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine
Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
Journal of Christian Nursing
Journal of Clinical Engineering
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease
Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology
Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
Journal of Craniofacial Surgery
Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics
Journal of ECT, The
Journal of Glaucoma
Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation
Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing
Journal of Hypertension
Journal of Immunotherapy
Journal of Infusion Nursing
Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
Journal of Neuro-Opthalmology
Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology
Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology
Journal of Nursing Care Quality
Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma
Journal of Patient Safety
Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition
Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics
Journal of Pediatric Orthopedics, Part B
Journal of Pelvic Medicine & Surgery
Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing
Journal of Psychiatric Practice
Journal of Public Health Management & Practice
Journal of Spinal Disorders & Techniques
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Journal of the American Association for Medical Transcription (JAAMT)
Journal of Thoracic Imaging
Journal of Thoracic Oncology
Journal of Trauma Nursing
Journal of Trauma®: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, The
Journal of WOCN (Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing)
JPO: Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics
Laryngoscope
LPN
MCN, The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing
Medical Care
Medicine
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
Melanoma Research
Men in Nursing
Menopause
Neurologist, The
Neurology
Neurology Now
Neurology Today
NeuroReport
Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery Quarterly
Nuclear Medicine Communications
Nurse Educator
Nurse Practitioner, The
Nursing
Nursing Administration Quarterly
Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!
Nursing Management (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins)
Nursing Research
Nutrition & the M.D.
Nutrition Today
Obstetric Anesthesia Digest
Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Optometry and Vision Science
Orthopaedic Nursing
Otology & Neurotology
Pancreas
Pathology Case Reviews
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Pediatric Emergency Care
Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
Pediatric Physical Therapy
Pediatric Research
Pharmacogenetics and Genomics
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Plastic Surgical Nursing
Point of Care: The Journal of Near-Patient Testing & Technology
Postgraduate Obstetrics & Gynocology
Professional Case Management
Psychiatric Genetics
Psychosomatic Medicine (journal)
Quality Management in Health Care
Real Living with Multiple Sclerosis
Retina
Reviews in Medical Microbiology
Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Journal of the American Sexually Transmitted Disease Association
Shock
Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare
Soil Science
Southern Medical Journal
Spine
Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review
Stroke
Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques
Survey of Anesthesiology
Techniques in Foot & Ankle Surgery
Techniques in Hand & Upper Extremity Surgery
Techniques in Knee Surgery
Techniques in Ophthamology
Techniques in Orthopaedics
Techniques in Shoulder & Elbow Surgery
Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
Topics in Clinical Nutrition
Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation
Topics in Language Disorders
Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Topics in Pain Management
Transplantation
Ultrasound Quarterly

American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs
Biodrugs
Clinical Drug Investigation
Clinical Pharmacokinetics
CNS Drugs
Disease Management & Health Outcomes
Drug Safety
Drugs
Drugs & Aging
Drugs & Therapy Perspectives
Drugs in R&D
High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevention
Inpharma Weekly
International Journal of Pharmaceutical Medicine
Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy
Pediatric Drugs
Pharmacoeconomics
Reactions Weekly

If you have any questions about these journals or the Hardin Library and its collections, please contact the library at 335-9150 or lib-hardin@uiowa.edu.

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