Neurobiol Lipids 5, 1 (7 April 2006) find out how to cite this article

Alexei R. Koudinov

Neurobiology of Lipids, P.O.Box 1665, Rehovot 76100 Israel
email: alexeikoudinov@neurobiologyoflipids.org

Published online: 7 April, 2006
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This editorial aims to inform Neurobiology of Lipids (NoL) readers and contributors that NoL has expanded its' mission of the major source for the Open Access (OA) scientific literature on the subject of the neuroscience of fats. In addition to the publication of OA 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 peer-reviewed journals. As a result of postscript article archiving in NoL, authors' masterpiece will become belonging (in addition to authors pride of original publication elsewhere) to a so called Open Access domain, freely available for both peers and the public and no access control.

To submit postscript manuscript for publication at NoL archive use Postscript Submission form

This editorial aims to inform Neurobiology of Lipids (NoL) readers that NoL has expanded its' scope. In addition to the publication of original research articles, review articles, commentaries, correspondence arising matters and all other type of Open Access (OA) articles, NoL will be archiving original research manuscripts (on the subject of the neurobiology of lipids) published in other peer-reviewed journals.

A year ago Neurobiology of Lipids welcomed National Institutes of Health (`NIH) new policy on Public Access effective May 3, 2005 [1]. A year latter the first Report on the NIH Public Access Policy [2] 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 Access 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 researchers' original research articles in NoL are compelling.

First, contributors will retain the publication impact of the original journal (be it Science, Nature, PNAS, Journal of Lipid Research, FASEB Journal, Neurology, or any other journal that scientists select as the first place of publication and succeed publishing at).

We at NoL realize the lack of comparable impact by the Neurobiology of Lipids is the major reason authors feel hesitant to submit their 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 original research articles published elsewhere will help to bridge the gap between scientists' willingness to have their major data published in major journals, and their interest to contribute to NoL.

Second, contributors will have their 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 [3] (available in smaller or bigger clusters) and article access statistics (available at the journal home page) will point our readers to the answer. The following data may be of additional interest (also see the journal page "Why publish in NoL?" [4]).

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 about 1000 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) [5], the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) [6], and in all major universal web search engines including Yahoo [7], Google [8] and academic Google Scholar [9], and Elsevier Scirus [10].

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 [11], Harvard Open URL generator [12], Serials Solutions [13], Bowker Ulrich's Periodicals Directory [14], NIH NLM catalog [15], EBSCO A-to-Z service [16], BIOSIS Biology Browser [17], and subject resources, such as the paper of the week collection by Alzheimer Research Forum, a popular web portal on the research of Alzheimer's disease [18].

NoL articles are well cited as judged by ISI Web of Knowledge Science Citation index [19]. This fact provides additional citation opportunity when your original research report is archived in NoL. As we informed readers  previously (via email communication with subscribers; to subscribe follow this link), 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 about the decision on the Grant proposal, having NoL archiving in PMC as one of the specific aims of this Open Access publishing project.

Third, easy submission for archiving in NoL.

NoL will accept for archiving every original research articles, peer-reviewed and published in other journals before submission for NoL archive. When one's article is in press, and the proofs are corrected, it will be natural to submit the corrected final article text file and image files to NoL using intuitive "Manuscript Registration" form submission [20]. When the manuscript is submitted for archiving in NoL, it will be processed to yield NoL archived article (in the standard .HTML and Adobe .PDF acrobat format PLUS NIH DTD .XML file format). The article will be labelled with the " Neurobiology of Lipids Archive" article prefix to indicate peer-review was performed by the original place of publication.

Full citation details of original publication will be provided. Moreover, to ensure the original publisher is duly identified, authors will have to submit to NoL (as a part of "Manuscript Registration" form questionnaire) complete citation information, such as journal title, ISSN number, volume and issue numbers, date, paging, DOI, PubMed ID, and (if known) hyperlink (URL) to the article on the Publisher/other web site(s).

Forth, the pleasure of liberating scholars academic output from commercial publisher cabal, making their research freely available to peers and the public.

As a part of article submission for NoL archive, contributors will have to verify their 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 [21] and Science magazine by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) [22]. 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 authors will have to agree (upon submission of their article for NoL archiving) with "personal website" definition of their NoL postscript archive web folder, the publication unit of Neurobiology of Lipids subject archive. Archived article folder, however, will retain the standard structure of NoL publications, such as www.neurobiologyoflipids.org/content/4/3 [23], for example.

As a part of their submission, authors will also have to grant to NoL, the right to disseminate their 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 articles, we do not believe archiving in NoL will create a redundant publication.

As a result of postscript article archiving in NoL, authors' masterpeice will become belonging (in addition to authors pride of original publication elsewhere) to a so called Open Access domain, freely available for both peers and the public and no access control. We therefore feel confident that NoL archiving of an article (on the journal scope) won't create a redundant publication. Those of our readers who could not read yet very interesting article "Brain cholesterol turnover required for geranylgeraniol production and learning in mice" by Kotti et al., [Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (7 March 2006) 103(10): 3869-74] [24] because of no subscription to PNAS should realize what we are talking about. Would this article archiving in NoL yield any harm other then the increase of readership, article usage and future citation impact? The answer on this question rests with Neurobiology of Lipids contributors and readers.

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2. Time for an Open Access mandate at National Institutes of Health. Israel Scholar (20 February 2006) [ FullText ][ Back2Text ].

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12. Harvard University Open URL generator (last viewed online 6 April 2006) [ Back2Text ].

13. Neurobiology of Lipids record. Serials Solutions. [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

14. Neurobiology of Lipids record. Bowker Ulrich's Periodicals Directory [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

15. Neurobiology of Lipids catalog record. National Library of MEdicine. National Institutes of Health. [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

16. A-to-Z service. EBSCO. [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

17. Neurobiology of Lipids record. Biology Browser. BIOSIS. [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

18. Alzheimer Research Forum (ARF). [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

19. Science Citation index. ISI Web of Knowledge. [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

20. Manuscript Registration form. Neurobiology of Lipids online. [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

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

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

23. Neurobiology of Lipids citation sample: Dufour F, Zhao CA W-Q, Ravindranath L, Alkon DL. Abnormal cholesterol processing in Alzheimer’s disease patient’s fibroblasts. Neurobiol Lipids. 1, 7 (2003) [ FullText ][ Back2Text ].

24. Kotti Brain cholesterol turnover required for geranylgeraniol production and learning in mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103, 3869-3874 (7 March 2006) [ FullText ][ Back2Text ]..
 

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