Neurobiology of Lipids Fourth Anniversary: Scope Expanded, Subject Postscript Archive Mission Taken
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
I am writing to inform you that Neurobiology of Lipids is expanding its' scope.
In addition to the publication of original research articles, review articles, commentaries, correspondence arising matters and all other type of manuscripts, NoL will be archiving original research articles (on the subject of the neurobiology of lipids) published in other journals.
A year ago Neurobiology of Lipids welcomed National Institutes of Health (NIH) new policy on Public Access effective May 3, 2005 (see NoL Newsstand 6 February 2006). A year latter the first Report on the NIH Public Access Policy showed the policy compliance rate is 3.8 %. It means that just "three point eight percent of the literature that was eligible for archiving under the NIH Public Acces policy actually got archived in NIH PubMedCentral (PMC). This is despite NIH did its level best to communicate the policy to researchers, and they’re decently competent at outreach." In contrast, for-profit publishers didn’t spread much info on NIH policy among researchers. While the policy had no teeth and researchers don’t understand and don’t care about the economics or socioinformatics of publishing, we hope the benefits of archiving your original research article in NoL are compelling.
First, you will retain the publication impact of the original journal (Science, Nature, PNAS, Journal of Lipid Research, FASEB Journal, Neurology, or any other journal that you selected as the first place of publication and succeded publishing at).
We realise the lack of comparable impact by the Neurobiology of Lipids is the major reason you feel hesitant to submit your best data to NoL. We feel happy pre-publication inquiries and recent submissions indicate there is a change for good. We further hope that NoL archiving of your articles published elsewhere will help to bridge the gap between your willingness to have your major data published in major journals, and your possible interest to contribute to NoL.
Second, you will have article archived at the Neurobiology of Lipids, the major subject publication, where it will be accessible to everyone for free.
What is the readership of the Neurobiology of Lipids? We hope that NoL home page visitors world map (available in smaller or bigger clusters) and article access statistics (available at the journal home page) will point you to the answer. The following data may be of additional interest (aslo see the journal page "Why publish in NoL?").
By now we have established several avenues of dissemination to ensure great readership. Published papers are promoted by Neurobiology of Lipids content alert email service (presently 970 individual subscribers working on the subject of the journal scope). Neurobiology of Lipids articles are indexed at the Chemical Abstracts (a service by American Chemical Society), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and in all major universal web search engines including Yahoo, Google and academic Google Scholar and Elsevier Scirus. At Google, NoL home page rank is 6 of 10 (compare with the Google rank value of 7/10, 8/10, and 9/10 for Journal of Lipid Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and PNAS, for example). Neurobiology of Lipids is also indexed in great number of academic libraries worldwide, Harvard Open URL generator, Serials Solutions, Bowker Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, NIH NLM catalog, EBSCO A-to-Z service, BIOSIS Biology Browser, and subject resources, such as the paper of the week collection by Alzheimer Research Forum (that has 3000+ current subscribers). NoL articles are well cited as judged by ISI Web of Knowledge Science Citation index. This will provide additional citation opportunity when your original research report is archived in NoL. As we informed you previously, last year NIH PubMedCentral (PMC) welcomed NoL to work on meeting technical requirements of the journal archiving in PMC. We will continue working on PubMedCentral archiving immediately after we know (in June 2006) about the decision on the Grant proposal by NoL managing editor, having NoL archiving in PMC as one of the specific aims of this Open Access project.
Third, easy submission for archiving in NoL
NoL will consider for archiving the original research articles, peer-reviewed and published in other journals before submission for NoL archive. When your article is in press, and the proofs are corrected, it will be natural to consider submitting the corrected final article text file and image files to NoL for archiving (along with the "Manuscript Registration" form submission to be modified to allow archiving submission by April 12, Neurobiology of Lipids 4th anniversary). We will process your article to yield NoL archived article in .HTML, Adobe .PDF, and NIH DTD .XML format. The article will be labelled with the " Neurobiology of Lipids Archive" article prefix and will indicate peer-review was performed by the original place of publication along with full citation details of original publication.
To ensure the original publisher is duly identified, you will have to submit to NoL complete citation information, such as journal title, ISSN number, volume and issue numbers, date, paging, DOI, PubMed ID, and hyperlink (URL) to the article on the Publisher/other web site(s).
Forth, the independence pleasure of liberating your scholar output from commercial publisher cabal, making your research freely available to peers and the public:
As a part of article submission for NoL archive, you will have to verify your copyright. Because your article has been published previously, check your copyright transfer form to be sure you have the right to post it. Check current policies of your publisher, because new regulations may override the terms you accepted in the past and presently allow archiving. If it is a work of multiple authorship, ascertain that the other authors also approve article archiving at NoL.
Understanding Neurobiology of Lipids major archiving term is also important. At present many for-profit and learned societies' scientific publishers allow self archiving and Institutional archiving of scholar works. See specific language of the self-archiving policy by Elsevier and Science magazine by AAAS. The latter source further says, that in order "to qualify as a personal web site the site must be devoted to the author's research and owned by the author (or if the author's employer is a non-profit institution, owned by that institution)." To meet such requirement by publishers you will have to agree (upon submission of your article for NoL archiving) with "personal website" definition of your NoL postscript archive web folder, the publication unit of Neurobiology of Lipids. Archived article folder, however, will retain the standard structure of NoL publications, such as <www.neurobiologyoflipids.org/content/4/3> , for example.
As a part of your submission, you will also have to grant to NoL, the right to disseminate your article postscript, provided that the integrity of the article is guaranteed, that the original publisher is duly identified, and that proper attribution of authorship and correct complete citation details are endorsed on the postscript publication.
Because of universal free open access to your article, we do not believe archiving in NoL will create a redundant publication
Conclusion
As a result of your article archiving in NoL, it will become belonging (in addition to your pride of original publication elsewhere) to a so called Open Access domain, freely available for both peers and the public. I therefore feel confident NoL archiving of your article won't create a redundant publication. Will it yield any harm other then the increase of your readership, article usage and future citation impact? The answer rests with you.
Sincerely,
Alexei Koudinov, MD, PhD
Editor
Neurobiology of Lipids (ISSN 1683-5506)
www.neurobiologyoflipids.org
I am writing to inform you that Neurobiology of Lipids is expanding its' scope.
In addition to the publication of original research articles, review articles, commentaries, correspondence arising matters and all other type of manuscripts, NoL will be archiving original research articles (on the subject of the neurobiology of lipids) published in other journals.
A year ago Neurobiology of Lipids welcomed National Institutes of Health (NIH) new policy on Public Access effective May 3, 2005 (see NoL Newsstand 6 February 2006). A year latter the first Report on the NIH Public Access Policy showed the policy compliance rate is 3.8 %. It means that just "three point eight percent of the literature that was eligible for archiving under the NIH Public Acces policy actually got archived in NIH PubMedCentral (PMC). This is despite NIH did its level best to communicate the policy to researchers, and they’re decently competent at outreach." In contrast, for-profit publishers didn’t spread much info on NIH policy among researchers. While the policy had no teeth and researchers don’t understand and don’t care about the economics or socioinformatics of publishing, we hope the benefits of archiving your original research article in NoL are compelling.
First, you will retain the publication impact of the original journal (Science, Nature, PNAS, Journal of Lipid Research, FASEB Journal, Neurology, or any other journal that you selected as the first place of publication and succeded publishing at).
We realise the lack of comparable impact by the Neurobiology of Lipids is the major reason you feel hesitant to submit your best data to NoL. We feel happy pre-publication inquiries and recent submissions indicate there is a change for good. We further hope that NoL archiving of your articles published elsewhere will help to bridge the gap between your willingness to have your major data published in major journals, and your possible interest to contribute to NoL.
Second, you will have article archived at the Neurobiology of Lipids, the major subject publication, where it will be accessible to everyone for free.
What is the readership of the Neurobiology of Lipids? We hope that NoL home page visitors world map (available in smaller or bigger clusters) and article access statistics (available at the journal home page) will point you to the answer. The following data may be of additional interest (aslo see the journal page "Why publish in NoL?").
By now we have established several avenues of dissemination to ensure great readership. Published papers are promoted by Neurobiology of Lipids content alert email service (presently 970 individual subscribers working on the subject of the journal scope). Neurobiology of Lipids articles are indexed at the Chemical Abstracts (a service by American Chemical Society), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and in all major universal web search engines including Yahoo, Google and academic Google Scholar and Elsevier Scirus. At Google, NoL home page rank is 6 of 10 (compare with the Google rank value of 7/10, 8/10, and 9/10 for Journal of Lipid Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and PNAS, for example). Neurobiology of Lipids is also indexed in great number of academic libraries worldwide, Harvard Open URL generator, Serials Solutions, Bowker Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, NIH NLM catalog, EBSCO A-to-Z service, BIOSIS Biology Browser, and subject resources, such as the paper of the week collection by Alzheimer Research Forum (that has 3000+ current subscribers). NoL articles are well cited as judged by ISI Web of Knowledge Science Citation index. This will provide additional citation opportunity when your original research report is archived in NoL. As we informed you previously, last year NIH PubMedCentral (PMC) welcomed NoL to work on meeting technical requirements of the journal archiving in PMC. We will continue working on PubMedCentral archiving immediately after we know (in June 2006) about the decision on the Grant proposal by NoL managing editor, having NoL archiving in PMC as one of the specific aims of this Open Access project.
Third, easy submission for archiving in NoL
NoL will consider for archiving the original research articles, peer-reviewed and published in other journals before submission for NoL archive. When your article is in press, and the proofs are corrected, it will be natural to consider submitting the corrected final article text file and image files to NoL for archiving (along with the "Manuscript Registration" form submission to be modified to allow archiving submission by April 12, Neurobiology of Lipids 4th anniversary). We will process your article to yield NoL archived article in .HTML, Adobe .PDF, and NIH DTD .XML format. The article will be labelled with the " Neurobiology of Lipids Archive" article prefix and will indicate peer-review was performed by the original place of publication along with full citation details of original publication.
To ensure the original publisher is duly identified, you will have to submit to NoL complete citation information, such as journal title, ISSN number, volume and issue numbers, date, paging, DOI, PubMed ID, and hyperlink (URL) to the article on the Publisher/other web site(s).
Forth, the independence pleasure of liberating your scholar output from commercial publisher cabal, making your research freely available to peers and the public:
As a part of article submission for NoL archive, you will have to verify your copyright. Because your article has been published previously, check your copyright transfer form to be sure you have the right to post it. Check current policies of your publisher, because new regulations may override the terms you accepted in the past and presently allow archiving. If it is a work of multiple authorship, ascertain that the other authors also approve article archiving at NoL.
Understanding Neurobiology of Lipids major archiving term is also important. At present many for-profit and learned societies' scientific publishers allow self archiving and Institutional archiving of scholar works. See specific language of the self-archiving policy by Elsevier and Science magazine by AAAS. The latter source further says, that in order "to qualify as a personal web site the site must be devoted to the author's research and owned by the author (or if the author's employer is a non-profit institution, owned by that institution)." To meet such requirement by publishers you will have to agree (upon submission of your article for NoL archiving) with "personal website" definition of your NoL postscript archive web folder, the publication unit of Neurobiology of Lipids. Archived article folder, however, will retain the standard structure of NoL publications, such as <www.neurobiologyoflipids.org/content/4/3> , for example.
As a part of your submission, you will also have to grant to NoL, the right to disseminate your article postscript, provided that the integrity of the article is guaranteed, that the original publisher is duly identified, and that proper attribution of authorship and correct complete citation details are endorsed on the postscript publication.
Because of universal free open access to your article, we do not believe archiving in NoL will create a redundant publication
Conclusion
As a result of your article archiving in NoL, it will become belonging (in addition to your pride of original publication elsewhere) to a so called Open Access domain, freely available for both peers and the public. I therefore feel confident NoL archiving of your article won't create a redundant publication. Will it yield any harm other then the increase of your readership, article usage and future citation impact? The answer rests with you.
Sincerely,
Alexei Koudinov, MD, PhD
Editor
Neurobiology of Lipids (ISSN 1683-5506)
www.neurobiologyoflipids.org
