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Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
A Royal Wedding?
The Marriage Between Open Access and the International Society for Computational
Biology
Philip E. BourneUniversity of California San Diego
[email protected]://www.sdsc.edu./pb/Talks
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
The Marriage
• A young Society (the groom) and a new open access publication (the bride)
• Their happily ever after - broadening the dissemination and impact of their science
• Ah but .. previous relationships linger
• And like many marriages the commitment did not come easily
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
The Groom - Life So Far• ~2000 member Society founded 1995• Primarily computational molecular biology• Previous “official journal” Bioinformatics (OUP)
– royalty arrangement• Other journals offered at a discount• FASEB Member• Executive Officer & Offices at UCSD• Main activates: ISMB, journals, education, SIG’s,
regional meetings, Web portal
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
The Groom’s Strategic Priorities
• Intellectual leadership – to sponsor and promote the highest quality conferences and society journal.
• Advocacy – to develop, disseminate and promote policies on behalf of our members and scientific discipline.
• Financial Stability – to improve the long-term financial footing of the society in order to achieve the above goals.
• Governance – to improve the governing structures of the society in order to improve the responsiveness of the society to members, and to enhance our ability to achieve our strategic priorities.
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
The Groom’s Monetary Situation:Preliminary 2004 Year End Financial
Projections
• Total assets, 1 January 2004 $ 197,093
• Estimated 2004 Income $ 824,635
• Estimated 2004 Expenses $ 770,000
• Estimated Assets, 1 January 2005 $ 251,728
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
The Groom’s Previous Lingering Relationship - OUP Bioinformatics
• Content – primarily methods• Impact factor 6+ increased +1 / year• After one year – free access to full articles• Low cost/free on-line in developing countries• On-line access to papers soon after acceptance• Recent survey indicated 70% supportive of open
access – up from 50% last summer
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
The Courtship• OUP contract expiring end 2004• April 2004 RFP issued to
publishers• June 2004 13 publishers
responded with 15 options• July 2004 Board of Directors and
membership deeply divided over move to open access, loss of revenue also an issue
• A duel model favored• OUP not supportive of a ménage
de trois
• Sept. 2004 form partnership with PLoS CB
• Nov. 2004 former ISCB President and Chair of Publications Committee becomes EIC
• Jan. 2005 Launch with very strong EB
• Now 70 papers processed, 1500 signed up for early alerts
• June 2005 first issue at ISMB
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
The Bride’s Unique Scope
• PLoS Computational Biology is published in partnership with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and features works of exceptional significance that furthers our understanding of living systems, at all scales, through the application of computational methods. Readers include life and computational scientists who can take the findings presented here to the next level of discovery.
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
The Bride’s Aspirations• Quality, quality, quality• Papers pre-filtered with response in 2-3 days• High quality review in 4-6 weeks – 3+ reviews• Papers on-line soon after acceptance• Reviews• Perspectives• Lay summaries• Annotated references• Society pages
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
The Marriage Thus Far
• Unresponsive Editors• JMS• Innovation slowed by
conventional requirements
• What happens when open access is the norm?
• Ground swell of support for open access
• PLoS are scientists!• Open to innovation• Feeling of a new
beginning
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
When the Honeymoon is Over Marriage Is All About Growing Up Together
• Using the medium for more than just distribution:– Living tutorials (needed in a fast growing field)– Seminal lectures (video) with DOIs– New presentation methodologies e.g.
• Usable tables• Applets for review of specific types of data
– The Knowledge (journal article) and the data (database) become integrated in cyberspace
• The paper is the interface to the databases• The databases are the interfaces to the paper content
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
The Children
• The Children (membership) are ideally suited for developing open source tools (BioLit) to support their parents– Support searching and literature mining – Authoring tools
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
The Wood Anniversary
• Bring computational biologists working at different scales into contact through shared methodologies
• Have ISCB as the support organization for this broader membership
• Take more ownership for the dissemination of our science such that it be available without regard for geographic or economic boundaries
• Improve the comprehension of our science through the use of appropriate Web technologies
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
Thank You
Any similarity to persons living or dead (or the Royal Family) is entirely
coincidental
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
ISCB Membership / ISMB Attendance
Shows Significant Growth in 2004
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1924 Total Members•US 834•UK 284 •Germany 129•Canada 86•Japan 53•S. Korea 46•Sweden 45
Less US CentricAlmost 40% Students
ISCB Membership Expands Globally
51 Countries Represented in 2004vs. 37 Previous Year
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
Traditional Subscription Model Journals Offer Discounts to ISCB
MembersJournal Name Member Savings (USD)• Bioinformatics $ 375• Briefings in Bioinformatics 31• Briefings in Functional Genomics
& Proteomics 31• Combination BIB and FGP
(when ordered together) 94• Comparative & Functional Genomics 11• Computers in Biology and Medicine 143• Computer Methods and Programs in
Biomedicine 133• Human Genomics 16• Human Molecular Genetics 94• Journal of Biomedical Informatics 151• Journal of Computational Biology 234• OMICS 141
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
PLoS Founding Board of Directors
Harold VarmusPLoS Co-founder and Chairman of the BoardPresident and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Patrick O. BrownPLoS Co-founder and Board MemberHoward Hughes Medical Institute & Stanford University School of Medicine
Michael B. EisenPLoS Co-founder and Board MemberLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & University of California at Berkeley
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
PLoS – A Brief History
• Founded in October, 2000• Circulated an open letter urging publishers to
increase access to research literature • >30,000 signatories• Some positive effects, but overall response
from publishers fell short of demands• In December, 2002, $9million grant from
Moore Foundation to launch open access journals.
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
PLoS Publishing Strategy• Launch two high quality open access
journals– PLoS Biology in October, 2003– PLoS Medicine in 2004
• Then launch more specialist open access journals
• Stimulate and partner with other organizations to do the same
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
PLoS Biology - Year One
• Articles submitted – 757
• Articles published – 140
• Extensive media coverage
PLoS Biology is established as a high quality open access journal
Emerging Trends April 13, 2005
Current Editorial Board
• Sebastian Bonhoeffer
• Peer Bork • Chris Burge• Richard Durbin • Jonathan Eisen • David Eisenberg• Mark Gerstein• David Haussler• Steve Henikoff • David Hillis
• Peter Hunter• Simon Levin• Wen-Hsiung Li• Dianna Murray• Janet Thornton • Andrej Sali• Chris Sander• Arend Sidow