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  BioMed Central Open Access Colloquium

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

Thank you to everyone who attended the Colloquium and made the event a success. Podcasts and slideshows of the presentations are now available below.

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Introduction to Day
Welcome
Deborah Saltman, Editorial Director, Medicine, BioMed Central
Duration: 1 min
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A historical perspective of open access
Vitek Tracz, Chairman, BioMed Central
Duration: 5 mins
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Definition of open access and business models

BioMed Central's open access model and other routes to open access
Matthew Cockerill, Publisher, BioMed Central
Duration: 12 mins
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An overview of open access repositories
Peter Morgan, Project Director, DSpace@Cambridge, Cambridge University
Duration: 12 mins
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UK PubMed Central within the open access movement
Richard Boulderstone, Director of e-Strategy and Programmes, British Library
Duration: 10 mins
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Springer's open access model
Jan Velterop, Director of Open Access, Springer Science & Business Media
Duration: 13 mins
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Questions and discussion
Led by Bryan Vickery, Deputy Publisher, BioMed Central
Duration: 7 mins
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Panel-led session: how is quality or depth of coverage defined in open access?

The BMC series journals: Quality & quantity across an open access portfolio
Melissa Norton, Medical Editor, BioMed Central
Duration: 5 mins
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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
Duration: 14 mins
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The PLoS combination of quality and quantity
Ginny Barbour, Managing Editor, PLoS Medicine
Duration: 10 mins
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Malaria Journal: An open access journal successfully carving out quality in a neglected area
Marcel Hommel, Editor-in-Chief, Malaria Journal
Duration: 14 mins
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Questions and discussion
Led by Melissa Norton, Medical Editor, BioMed Central
Duration: 12 mins
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Quality and quantity from an author's perspective

Experiences of multiple paper authors
Georgios Lyratzopoulos, East of England Strategic Health Authority, Cambridge
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Experiences of multiple paper authors
David Torgerson, Director, York Trials Unit, University of York
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Experiences of multiple paper authors
Diana Elbourne, Professor of Healthcare Evaluation, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London
Duration: 7 mins
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Experiences of multiple paper authors
Fiona Matthews, Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Duration: 10 mins
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Questions and discussion
David Bennett, Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, St George's Hospital, London
Duration: 27 mins
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Who benefits from open access publishing? Authors', readers' and funders' perspectives

An author and editor's perspective
Doug Altman, Steering Group, Trials journal
Duration: 12 mins
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Areas neglected by traditional publishers
Michael Kidd, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Medical Case Reports
Duration: 9 mins
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A funding agency's perspective
Tony Peatfield, Head Corporate Governance and Policy, Medical Research Council
Duration: 14 mins
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A reader's perspective
Ben Goldacre, Journalist (Bad Science column, The Guardian) and Clinician (University College, London)
Duration: 9 mins
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Questions and discussion
Anne Greenwood, Science Navigation Group Managing Director
Duration: 13 mins
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The open access imperative: where are we now, and where do we want to be?

Funding open-access publications
Robert Kiley, Head of e-Strategy, Wellcome Library
Duration: 10 mins
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Open access from the perspective of the NHS
Sir Muir Gray, Director of Clinical Knowledge, Process and Safety for NHS Connecting for Health
Duration: 14 mins
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The open access imperative and the future of open access
Richard Smith, Member of the board of PLoS, former Editor of the BMJ and Chief Executive of the BMJ Publishing Group
Duration: 14 mins
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Summary, close and presentation of BioMed Central Awards

Summary and close
Matthew Cockerill, Publisher, BioMed Central
Duration: 6 mins
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