eLife – a new biomedical journal in the public domain
Wellcome Trust has established a free medical journal
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The Wellcome Trust Charitable Foundation supported the desire of scientists to publish their works in open access and announced a scientific biomedical journal, articles from which will be available to everyone online, the BBC reports (Trust pushes for open access to research). A name has already been determined for the new magazine – it will be called eLife.
In the picture on the right – his editor–in-chief, Randy Schekman (Randy Schekman) - VM.
Representatives of the foundation believe that eLife will be able to compete with traditional paid academic publications.
Many researchers would like their work to be freely available, because they believe that such a model will contribute to a significant acceleration of scientific progress.
Also, one of the arguments of the free access model is that the results of research, in most cases paid for with taxpayers' money, are available to the general public only after a paid subscription is issued.
Director of the Wellcome Trust (in the picture on the left – VM) Sir Mark Walport considers it important to promote the development of an open access model for scientific research.
"One of the important points that still exists today is the following: if I submit my article for consideration to a scientific journal, then I actually sign a copyright waiver. It's really funny," he notes.
Another representative of the charitable foundation, Robert Kiley, believes that against the background of the development of the open access model, paid publications will also change their point of view.
In turn, representatives of paid publications say that the income received from the sale of subscriptions allows them to devote more time to the selection of worthy scientific papers, their editing and publication. At the same time, they point to journals such as Nature, which reject about 90 percent of the papers submitted to them for consideration. Nevertheless, the Nature Publishing Group reacted positively to the news about the appearance of a free competitor.
Part of the scientific community believes that such a way of publishing works can damage the peer review system. "Of course, there are low-quality magazines with open access, but there are also low-quality paid magazines on the market. The quality and price of the publication are not related to each other," Keeley objected.
The idea of creating a Directory of Open Access scientific journals was discussed and approved in 2002 at the First Scandinavian Conference on Scientific Communications.
The Wellcome Trust Charitable Foundation was founded in 1936 to support scientific research in the field of medicine and veterinary medicine.
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