Doping Journal 4, 2 (22 September 2007) find out how to cite this article

Alexei R Koudinov

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Published online: 22 September, 2007  | Article readership

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To submit postscript manuscript for publication at DJ archive use Postscript Submission form

This editorial aims to inform Doping Journal (DJ) readers that DJ has expanded its' scope. In addition to the publication of original research articles, review articles, commentaries, correspondence arising matters and all other type of Open Access (OA) articles, DJ will be archiving original research manuscripts (on the subject of the doping research) published in other peer-reviewed journals.

As a member of the editorial group of the Neurobiology of Lipids, DJ partner Open Access journal, I previously welcomed National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy on Public Access effective May 3, 2005 [1]. A year latter the first Report on the NIH Public Access Policy [2] showed the policy compliance rate is low (3.8 %). It means that just "three point eight percent of the literature that was eligible for archiving under the NIH Public Access policy actually got archived in NIH PubMedCentral (PMC). This is despite NIH did its level best to communicate the policy to researchers, and they're decently competent at outreach." In contrast, for-profit publishers didn't spread much info on NIH policy among researchers. While the policy had no teeth and researchers don't understand and don't care about the economics or socioinformatics of publishing, we hope the benefits of archiving original research articles in DJ are compelling.

First, contributors will retain the publication impact of the original journal (be it Lancet, Science, Nature, British Journal of Sports Medicine, or any other journal that scientists select as the first place of publication and succeed publishing at).

We at DJ realize that the lack of comparable impact by the Doping Journal is the major reason authors feel hesitant to submit their best data to DJ. We feel happy pre-publication inquiries and recent submissions indicate there is a change for good. We further hope that DJ archiving of original research articles published elsewhere will help to bridge the gap between scientists' willingness to have their major data published in major journals, and their interest to contribute to a subject Open Access publication, such as DJ.

Second, contributors will have their article archived at the Doping Journal, the major subject publication, where it will be accessible to everyone for free. What is the readership of the Doping Journal? We hope that DJ home page visitors world map [3] (available in smaller or bigger clusters) and the journal access statistics [4] will point our readers to the answer.

By now we have established several avenues of dissemination to ensure great readership. Published papers are promoted by Doping Journal content alert email service. DJ articles are indexed atthe Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)  [5], and in all major universal web search engines including MSN [6] Yahoo [7], Google [8], academic Google Scholar [9], and Elsevier Scirus [10].

At Google, DJ home page rank is 6 of 10 (compare with the Google rank value of 5/10, 6/10, 6/10, 6/10, and 8/10 for Sports Medicine, British Journal of Sports Medicine, Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, The American Journal of Sports Medicine (by the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine). Doping journal  is also indexed in great number of academic libraries worldwide [11], Harvard Open URL generator [12], Serials Solutions [13], Bowker Ulrich's Periodicals Directory [14], NIH NLM catalog [15], and a number of popular subject resources (ex. doping.startpagina.nl).

Third, easy submission for archiving in DJ.

Doping Journal will accept for archiving every original research articles, peer-reviewed and published in other journals before submission for DJ archive. When one's article is in press, and the proofs are corrected, it will be natural to submit the corrected final article text file and image files to DJ using intuitive "Manuscript Registration" form submission [15]. When the manuscript is submitted for archiving in DJ, it will be processed to yield DJ archived article (in the standard .HTML and Adobe .PDF acrobat format PLUS NIH DTD .XML file format). The article will be labelled with the "Doping Journal Archive" article prefix to indicate peer-review was performed by the original place of publication.

Full citation details of original publication will be provided. Moreover, to ensure the original publisher is duly identified, authors will be asked to submit to DJ (as a part of "Manuscript Registration" form questionnaire) complete citation information, such as journal title, ISSN number, volume and issue numbers, date, paging, DOI, PubMed ID, and (if known) hyperlink (URL) to the article on the Publisher/other web site(s).

Forth, the pleasure of liberating scholars academic output from commercial publisher cabal, making their research freely available to peers and the public.

As a part of article submission for DJ archive, contributors will have to verify their copyright. Because your article has been published previously, check your copyright transfer form to be sure you have the right to post it. Check current policies of your publisher, because new regulations likely override the terms you accepted in the past and presently allow archiving. If it is a work of multiple authorship, ascertain that the other authors also approve article archiving at DJ.

Understanding Doping Journal major archiving term is also important. At present many for-profit and learned societies' scientific publishers allow self archiving and Institutional archiving of scholar works. See specific language of the self-archiving policy by Elsevier [16], Nature by Nature Publishing Group [17], and Science magazine by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) [18]. The latter source further says, that in order "to qualify as a personal web site the site must be devoted to the author's research and owned by the author (or if the author's employer is a non-profit institution, owned by that institution)." To meet such requirement by publishers authors will have to agree (upon submission of their article for DJ archiving) with "personal website" definition of their DJ postscript archive web folder, the publication unit of the Doping Journal  subject archive. Archived article folder, however, will retain the standard structure of DJ publications, such as www.dopingjournal.org/content/2/1 [19], for example.

As a part of their submission, authors will be also asked to grant to DJ, the right to disseminate their article postscript, provided that the integrity of the article is guaranteed, that the original publisher is duly identified, and that proper attribution of authorship and correct complete citation details are endorsed on the postscript publication.

1. Koudinov AR. Neuroiology of Lipids welcomes new Public Access policy by the National Institutes of Health. Neurobiol Lipids.4, 1 (2005) [ FullText ][ Back2Text ].

2. Time for an Open Access mandate at National Institutes of Health. Israel Scholar (20 February 2006) [ FullText ][ Back2Text ].

3. Doping Journal home page visitors' world map depicts world readership trend for DJ homepage (not the entire journal content pages) [ Small Clusters ][ Big Clusters ][ Back2Text ].

4. Doping Journal access statistics. [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

5. Doping Journal record. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

6. Doping Journal record. MSN Network search result [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

7. Doping Journal record. Search.Yahoo.com [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

8. Doping Journal record. Google.com [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

9. Doping Journal article records. Google Scholar [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

10. Doping Journal search result. Elsevier SciRus [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

11. Doping Journal record. SFX by Ex Libris Inc. [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

12. Doping Journal record. Serials Solutions. [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

13. Doping Journal record. Bowker Ulrich's Periodicals Directory [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

14. Doping Journal catalog record. National Library of Medicine. National Institutes of Health. [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

15. Manuscript Registration form. Doping Journal online. [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

16. Copyright Information for Authors of Elsevier Journals: Postscript Archiving Permitted. IsraelScholar.org (25 March 2005) [ FullText ][ Back2Text ].

17. Nature Publishing Group: author licence policy. Nature web site (last viewed 19 September 2007) [ URL ][ Back2Text ].

18. Science Magazine Does Not Require Copyright Transfer, Permits Postscript Archiving. IsraelScholar.org (22 March 2005) [ FullText ][ Back2Text ].

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This article should be cited in the following way: Koudinov AR. Doping Journal Third Anniversary: Scope Expanded, Subject Postscript Archive Mission Taken. The Doping Journal  Vol.  4, 2 (2007) Available at: http://dopingjournal.org/content/4/2/ ( Please make sure you included article web address in your citation! )