CONTACTS
Martin Frank, Ph.D.
301.634.7118
MFrank@The-APS.org
Margaret Reich
301.634.7071
MReich@The-APS.org
AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY
(APS)
ANNOUNCES NEW PROGRAM TO MAKE RESEARCH RESULTS
IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC
“AuthorChoice”
debuts July 1, 2007
BETHESDA, MD – Authors who publish
with the American Physiological Society (APS; www.The-APS.org)
and want to provide the public with immediate access to their
research results will now be able to do so under a plan announced
today by the APS.
Under the new program, AuthorChoice,
researchers who publish their studies in APS journals can
make their results immediately available by paying an open
access (OA) fee. The plan, which takes effect July 1, 2007,
also guarantees that researchers who are required to provide
open access as a condition of funding can quickly and easily
do so. AuthorChoice is one of several recent innovations
undertaken by the 120-year old scientific society to meet
21st century demands.
According to Martin Frank, Ph.D., APS’
Executive Director, “The history and mission of the
APS is to publish research results that can be used by scientists
and benefit the public. Ten years ago we made online access
to our journals immediately available for a nominal fee. Seven
years ago we made all articles free online after 12 months.
Two years ago we made articles available to all patients in
need, at no charge. Now we are letting the researchers and
their organizations dictate when the results of their research
are made available to the public free of charge. Given today’s
market forces, it makes sense to let the authors decide what
timing best suits their needs.
Program Tested Ahead of
Roll Out
The plan goes into effect after several years of experimentation
with the APS journal Physiological Genomics. During a three
year period, APS offered authors the choice of whether to
pay an open access fee plus standard author charges. At the
end of the test period, 18 percent of authors opted for open
access.
“It was very interesting to watch the
level of interest and financial commitment that we found among
authors submitting their work to this publication,”
said Margaret Reich, executive editor of the APS family of
journals. “Based on the results of our internal study,
we decided to make the choice plan as widely available as
possible. This means that as publishers we can now offer a
mixed model for access and payment to support the cost of
publication.”
Ten Journals to Offer AuthorChoice
Option
Authors who choose immediate access for their work will pay
the $2,000 AuthorChoice fee, plus the customary author
fees. Open access choice will apply to all of the APS’
10 monthly research publications: American Journal of Physiology
– Cell Physiology; American Journal of Physiology –
Endocrinology and Metabolism; American Journal of Physiology
– Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology; American Journal
of Physiology – Heart and Circulatory Physiology; American
Journal of Physiology – Lung Cellular and Molecular
Physiology; American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory,
Integrative & Comparative Physiology; American Journal
of Physiology – Renal Physiology; Journal of Applied
Physiology; Journal of Neurophysiology; and Physiological
Genomics.
Some 4,000 Research Articles
Have Potential to be “Open”
According to Frank, the goal of the program is to allow choice.
“There will be many who do not want to pay the cost
of the open access fee from their grant funding, and there
will be many who do want to. As publishers, our duty is to
offer them the choice and then implement it. We are offering
the AuthorChoice option on the approximately 4,000
scientific articles we publish each year. We are very interested
in how this change will affect an industry that is so deeply
in transition.”
About the APS
Physiology is the study of how molecules, cells, tissues and
organs function to create health or disease. The American
Physiological is a nonprofit organization devoted to fostering
education, scientific research, and dissemination of information
in the physiological sciences. From its beginnings in 1887
the Society has grown to more than 10,500 researcher-members
today. In addition to being a member-based organization, it
is a premier not-for-profit publisher in the life sciences
whose publications are among the most respected and frequently
cited in the world. APS publishes 13 widely acclaimed scholarly
journals and recently posted more than 650,000 pages of historical
scientific studies online, some dating back to 1898.
NOTE TO EDITORS: For additional
information please contact Martin, Frank, Ph.D., Executive
Director, American Physiological Society (APS) at 301.634.7118
or MFrank@The-APS.org;
or Margaret Reich, APS Executive Editor, 301.634.7071 or MReich@The-APS.org.
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