- The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) was the first open access journal in health informatics, established in 1999. It pioneered an innovative open access publishing model and business model. - JMIR has achieved success as a leading scholarly journal in its field, demonstrating that sustainable open access publishing is possible with creativity and a lean model. It has contributed innovations like article-level metrics and open peer review. - Open access was a key factor in JMIR's impact and visibility beyond a small readership, advancing knowledge dissemination and uptake in health informatics.

1. Editor/Publisher, J Med Internet Res www.jmir.org Associate Professor Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; Senior Scientist , Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, Division of Medical Decision Making and Health Care Research; Epublishing and Open Access Research Group Toronto General Research Institute of the UHN, Toronto General Hospital, Canada 10 Years Experience in Pioneering Open Access Publishing in Health Informatics The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH

2. This presentation was given at Medinfo 2010 (13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics) in Cape Town in September 2010. A self-archived full paper is available on Scribd: http: //tinyurl .com/jmir10yrs Please cite as: Eysenbach G. 10 years experience with pioneering open access publishing in health informatics: the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR). Stud Health Technol Inform. 2010;160(Pt 2):1329-3 (cc-by) can be freely distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License

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4. Knowledge transfer to health professionals insufficient Dr Najeeb Al-Shorbaji

10. Modified from: CIHR, Knowledge Translation Cycle

11. Eysenbach G (2006) Citation advantage of open access articles. PLoS Biol 4(5): e157. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157

12. A natural experiment: Author-Choice OA in PNAS (since June 2004)

13. Eysenbach. PLoS Biol 4(5): e157 Citations of OA vs nOA articles from the same journal (PNAS)

14. www.jmir.org

15. www.jmir.org

19. JMIR is a founding member of OASPA http://www.webcitation.org/5kihtiutz

21. JMIR Impact Factor Top Medical Informatics Journals

23. Subject Areas of Citing Journals

24. Beyond citations: Article-level metrics Indicators for end-user uptake Innovation #2: Article-level metrics (incl. tweets)

29. XML (NLM-DTD)

30. XML Typesetting Scripts convert .doc -> .xml

31. WebCite® (www.webcitation.org) Archiving of cited Internet Resources Innovation #4: Archiving System for Webpages

32. Dellavalle RP, Hester EJ, Heilig LF, Drake AL, Kuntzman JW, Graber M, et al. Information science. Going, going, gone: lost Internet references. Science 2003 Oct 31;302(5646):787-788. DOI:10.1126/science.1088234 In one study published in the journal Science , 13% of Internet references in scholarly articles were inactive after only 27 months.

35. jmir-revenues-pie2007-recalc2.xls

36. Open Peer Review @ JMIR Innovation #6: Open Peer-Review

39. iJMR on knol.google.com http://tinyurl.com/ijmr-submit

42. www.medicine20congress.com