Neurobiol Lipids 4, 1 (6 February 2005) find out how to cite this article

Alexei R. Koudinov

Neurobiology of Lipids, P.O.Box 1665, Rehovot 76100 Israel
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Published online: 6 February, 2005; References updated: 20 February, 2006
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Neurobiology of Lipids (NoL) welcomes the announcement of new "Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research" by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) effective May 2, 2005. The NIH requests the Agency grant recipients to deposit resulting publications in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central (PMC, a free governmental archive of the life sciences literature) within 12 months since originally published in a peer-reviewed journal. The article deposition in NIH archive will no doubt benefit the scholars themselves. This is because deposition in PMC archive will ensure the publication is preserved for future generations and gets maximum and barrier-free exposure to both peers and the public.

Neurobiology of Lipids (NoL) welcomes the announcement of new "Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research" by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) effective May 2, 2005. The NIH requests the Agency grant recipients to deposit resulting publications in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central (PMC, a free governmental archive of the life sciences literature) within 12 months since originally published in a peer-reviewed journal.

The article deposition in NIH archive will no doubt benefit the scholars themselves. This is because deposition in PMC archive will ensure the publication is preserved for future generations and gets maximum and barrier-free exposure to both peers and the public. For the Policy wording on these and other issues (such as reliability of article access at PMC site and their integration with other NIH Databases) please see original NIH document [1].

While the new Policy calls for the voluntary submission of final author manuscripts and does not affect the ability to copyright, all NIH grantees now have a new issue to consider when selecting the journal to publish at. To fulfill the NIH request, authors publishing in the majority of the traditional journals (i.e. those where authors transfer copyright to the publisher) will have to go through a process of resubmitting their papers to the PubMed Central archive [2]. Moreover, the authors will often need to select for PMC archive the manuscript version with the changes introduced during the publication procedure, because many publishers (ex. Elsevier) allow archiving of the author's version of the manuscript only [3,4].

Neurobiology of Lipids has met the National Library of Medicine quality requirement for PubMed Central archiving and is presently successfully working on bringing its' prior publications' collection into the Extensible Markup Language (XML) files' format (suitable for deposition in PMC) using just released latest version 2.0 of the National Library of Medicine XML Document Type Definition (DTD) for journal publishing.

While taking the advantage of an irreversible Internet and desktop publishing technology development and their end user availability at almost no cost, Neurobiology of Lipids is also originating the research project aiming to develop the software tool that will make direct publishing (to an appropriate XML file compliant with NIH DTD) as simple, as web form submission (that any of you use while performing on-line bank transaction, interlibrary loan request, an Institution internal services operation or thousand other purposes). Such tool will be essential for independent journals (encouraged by Neurobiology of Lipids and similarly built on a concept [5] of a non-profit model for cost-effective independent scholar journals), their authors, Academic Institutions setting their own archives, and individual scientists, willing to deposit their articles in a modern XML file format. NoL is open for partnership by any interested party and has open opportunities for Graduate students [6] to participate in this and other projects.

Therefore, when Neurobiology of Lipids archiving in PMC is implemented, any article published in the journal will meet the NIH new Policy, immediately and without any need for additional archiving works by authors.

Starting this week XML files for NoL articles will be also available at NoL (as an additional link at articles' web pages) [7] and offered for syndication (as it was earlier implemented for NoL Global Newsstand [8], indexing NoL articles' abstracts and NoL noteworthy articles [9] published in other journals). Our authors will thus save the time and effort of going through the deposition process themselves. The other benefits [10] of publishing in NoL include the rapid, fair and quality peer review, fast publication and high visibility of Neurobiology of Lipids among those working in the filed (as verified by NoL readership of about 1/3-1/4 of the readership of the major Journal of Lipid Research published since 1959) [10] and wide geographical distribution of NoL readers [11].

Another opportunity offered by NIH PMC archiving is to link an article to any other publication via related article feature of the DTD. This feature creates an important technical background for NoL call for commentaries and letters to the editor on related/noteworthy articles appeared in other journals [9]. The NIH DTD feature will make sure such communication arising matters (when published in NoL) are linked in NIH databases to original publications in other journals.

Neurobiology of Lipids welcomes researchers in the field of neuroscience of fats to consider publishing in the Neurobiology of Lipids all types of articles, and to consider for publication other journals depositing full text articles (not just abstracts!) in PubMed Central [2].

Neurobiology of Lipids also urges funding bodies worldwide to follow the pioneering NIH policy, and welcomes industry members to consider establishing funds to support authors publishing in NoL.

1. Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research.
Notice Number: NOT-OD-05-022 (Release Date: February 3, 2005; Effective Date: May 2, 2005).
Issued by National Institutes of Health (NIH) [FullText]. Also see: Time for an Open Access mandate at National Institutes of Health. Israel Scholar (20 February 2006) [ FullText ][ Back2Text ].

2. PubMed Central. National Institutes of Health. [ URL ]

3. Copyright Information for Authors of Elsevier Journals: Postscript Archiving Permitted. IsraelScholar.org (25 March 2005) [ FullText ][ Back2Text ].

4. Science Magazine Does Not Require Copyright Transfer, Permits Postscript Archiving. IsraelScholar.org (22 March 2005) [ FullText ][ Back2Text ].

5. Koudinov A, Suber P. Open Access, a breakthrough for science that every neuroscientist should know about. Neurobiol Lipids. 3, 6 (2004) [ FullText ][ Back2Text ].

6. Opportunities for Graduate students. Educational and career opportunities page. Neurobiol Lipids [ URL ]

7. Samples of articles in XML format of the NIH DTD2.0 for journal publishing. Neurobiology of Lipids. [ URL 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 ][ Back2Text ].

8. Global Newsstand page. Neurobiology of Lipids web site [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

9. NoL noteworthy articles. Neurobiology of Lipids web site [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

10. Why publish in NoL? Neurobiology of Lipids Web site [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

11. Neurobiology of Lipids home page visitors' world map depicts world readership trend for NoL homepage only (not the entire journal content pages) [ Small Clusters ][ Big Clusters ][ Back2Text ].
 
 

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