ISYU TUNGKOL SA SEKSWLADIDA (ISSUE ABOUT SEXUALITY
Interdisciplinary research and open access
1. Open Access and
interdisciplinary research
Matthew Cockerill
Managing Director, BioMed Central
10th Berlin Open Access Meeting
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Thursday 8th November 2012
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5
2. Open access helps eliminate barriers
between disciplines
Under a subscription-based
model, institutions and departments often
only subscribe to essential journals for
the specific field
Under open access, research benefits
from cross-fertilization with ideas from
other areas
5. Fields contributing towards under-
standing and elimination of Malaria
• Parasitology
• Immunology
• Epidemiology
• Infectious diseases
• Clinical trials
• Health services research
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7. Malaria Journal’s influence
More than 400 articles published annually
The field is now dominated by open
access journals
Malaria Journal
Parasites & Vectors
PLoS One
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Overall, 35% of malaria-related research
in PubMed is now immediate open access
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2. Veterinary research
9. Veterinary research is badly
served by traditional model
Traditional veterinary journals are
infrequently read/cited by non-vets
High quality veterinary research has tended
to be published in “basic science” journals
Veterinary medicine and human medical
research can benefit by sharing findings
25. Cases DB
• Thousands of cases from all medical
disciplines
• Text-mining enables convenient filtering
by diagnosis, treatment, patient age etc
• Includes BioMed Central case reports
and OA case reports from other
publishers (available under CC license)
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28. Open access and case reports
• Case reports are more useful when
aggregated into a coherent
database that spans medical
disciplines
• Breaks down barriers between
medical researchers, specialist
clinicians, GPs and patients
36. Data-sharing and data repositories
Have taken off in certain areas
Tend to be discipline-specific, e.g.
– Molecular sequence data (protein/dna)
– Protein and chemical structures
– Spectroscopy data
– Biodiversity data
– Public/government data
Interoperability is limited
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38. GigaScience
Research involving “big data”
Sharing datasets in reusable form
(e.g. the ISA-TAB standard)
Using cloud-computing approaches to
allow computational analyses to be
easily reproduced and reused
Part of wider „open data‟ efforts at
BioMed Central
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41. Summary
Research rarely falls clearly into discrete
disciplinary categories
The pen access model facilitates cross-
fertilization between fields
Discipline-specific journals need no
longer exist in isolation
Interdisciplinary journals are now viable
and successful
Notas del editor
One of the main reasons we started BioMed Central was clear sense that subscriptions barriers between discplines were an obstacle to the progress of research. The number of examples to choose from is almost embarrassing, but I have selected a few to give a taste of how interdisciplinary research can benefit.
There was no journal dedicated to malaria!
Substantial fraction from African authors
Published to coincide with the London Olympics
Everyone can read articles in all these journals
Example of how an open access journal can successful focus on an applied topic of global importance (Energy and climate change), and bring multiple disciplines to bear on that topic.
Where it all started – enthusiasts for OA amongst genomicists
How genomics informs all areas of modern biology and medicine - *enabled* by open access