
Open Access: How Can We Achieve Quality and Quantity?
Location: The Royal College of Physicians, Regent's Park, London NW1 4LE, UK
Date: Thursday 8th February, 2007
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Introduction to Day
<TABLE id=pod><TBODY vAlign=top><TR><TD vAlign=top width=475>Welcome
Deborah Saltman, Editorial Director, Medicine, BioMed Central
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Vitek Tracz, Chairman, BioMed Central
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(RSS)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=bottom colSpan=4 height=60>Definition of open access and business models
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=475>BioMed Central's open access model and other routes to open access
Matthew Cockerill, Publisher, BioMed Central
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(RSS)</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=4 height=20></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=475>An overview of open access repositories
Peter Morgan, Project Director, DSpace@Cambridge, Cambridge University
<SMALL>Duration: 12 mins</SMALL></TD><TD align=middle>Slideshow
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(RSS)</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=4 height=20></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=475>UK PubMed Central within the open access movement
Richard Boulderstone, Director of e-Strategy and Programmes, British Library
<SMALL>Duration: 10 mins</SMALL></TD><TD align=middle>Slideshow
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(RSS)</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=4 height=20></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=475>Springer's open access model
Jan Velterop, Director of Open Access, Springer Science & Business Media
<SMALL>Duration: 13 mins</SMALL></TD><TD align=middle width=60></TD><TD align=middle>Audio
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Led by Bryan Vickery, Deputy Publisher, BioMed Central
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(RSS)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=bottom colSpan=4 height=60>Panel-led session: how is quality or depth of coverage defined in open access?
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=475>The BMC series journals: Quality & quantity across an open access portfolio
Melissa Norton, Medical Editor, BioMed Central
<SMALL>Duration: 5 mins</SMALL></TD><TD align=middle>Slideshow
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(RSS)</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=4 height=20></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=475>How has the quality and depth of coverage of the BMJ changed with the evolution of its open access model?
Trish Groves, Deputy Editor, British Medical Journal
<SMALL>Duration: 14 mins</SMALL></TD><TD align=middle>Slideshow
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(RSS)</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=4 height=20></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=475>The PLoS combination of quality and quantity
Ginny Barbour, Managing Editor, PLoS Medicine
<SMALL>Duration: 10 mins</SMALL></TD><TD align=middle>Slideshow
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(RSS)</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=4 height=20></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=475>Malaria Journal: An open access journal successfully carving out quality in a neglected area
Marcel Hommel, Editor-in-Chief, Malaria Journal
<SMALL>Duration: 14 mins</SMALL></TD><TD align=middle>Slideshow
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Led by Melissa Norton, Medical Editor, BioMed Central
<SMALL>Duration: 12 mins</SMALL></TD><TD width=60></TD><TD align=middle>Audio
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(RSS)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=bottom colSpan=4 height=60>Quality and quantity from an author's perspective
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=475>Experiences of multiple paper authors
Georgios Lyratzopoulos, East of England Strategic Health Authority, Cambridge
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David Torgerson, Director, York Trials Unit, University of York
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(PPT)</TD><TD width=60></TD><TD width=60></TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=4 height=20></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=475>Experiences of multiple paper authors
Diana Elbourne, Professor of Healthcare Evaluation, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London
<SMALL>Duration: 7 mins</SMALL></TD><TD align=middle>Slideshow
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Fiona Matthews, Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
<SMALL>Duration: 10 mins</SMALL></TD><TD align=middle>Slideshow
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David Bennett, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, St George's Hospital, London
<SMALL>Duration: 27 mins</SMALL></TD><TD align=middle width=60></TD><TD align=middle>Audio
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(RSS)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=bottom colSpan=4 height=60>Who benefits from open access publishing? Authors', readers' and funders' perspectives
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=475>An author and editor's perspective
Doug Altman, Steering Group, Trials journal
<SMALL>Duration: 12 mins</SMALL></TD><TD align=middle>Slideshow
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Michael Kidd, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Medical Case Reports
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Tony Peatfield, Head Corporate Governance and Policy, Medical Research Council
<SMALL>Duration: 14 mins</SMALL></TD><TD align=middle>Slideshow
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Ben Goldacre, Journalist (Bad Science column, The Guardian) and Clinician (University College, London)
<SMALL>Duration: 9 mins</SMALL></TD><TD align=middle width=60></TD><TD align=middle>Audio
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Anne Greenwood, Science Navigation Group Managing Director
<SMALL>Duration: 13 mins</SMALL></TD><TD align=middle width=60></TD><TD align=middle>Audio
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(RSS)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=bottom colSpan=4 height=60>The open access imperative: where are we now, and where do we want to be?
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=475>Funding open-access publications
Robert Kiley, Head of e-Strategy, Wellcome Library
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Sir Muir Gray, Director of Clinical Knowledge, Process and Safety for NHS Connecting for Health
<SMALL>Duration: 14 mins</SMALL></TD><TD align=middle>Slideshow
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Richard Smith, Member of the board of PLoS, former Editor of the BMJ and Chief Executive of the BMJ Publishing Group
<SMALL>Duration: 14 mins</SMALL></TD><TD align=middle>Slideshow
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(RSS)</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=bottom colSpan=4 height=60>Summary, close and presentation of BioMed Central Awards
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=475>Summary and close
Matthew Cockerill, Publisher, BioMed Central
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