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      An open access journal of molecular signaling: a critical need at a critical time

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      Journal: Journal of Molecular Signaling
      Publisher: BioMed Central

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          Molecular signaling is an exponentially growing field that encompasses different molecular aspects of cell signaling underlying normal and pathological conditions. This area also focuses on defining the genetic and epigenetic changes that modulate the signaling properties of cells and the resultant physiological as well as pathological conditions. Therefore, rapid publication of results from these endeavors and, more importantly, free access to such publications can truly accelerate the progress in this field leading to the development of novel targeted drugs. With this goal in mind, Journal of Molecular Signaling, a journal fully devoted to open access publishing of rigorously peer-reviewed quality manuscripts in the molecular signaling area of research, is being launched. The focus, significance, and, the open access model of publishing of Journal of Molecular Signaling are discussed.

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              To determine whether free access to research articles on bmj.com is an important factor in authors' decisions on whether to submit to the BMJ, whether the introduction of access controls to part of the BMJ's content has influenced authors' perceptions of the journal, and whether the introduction of further access controls would influence authors' perceptions. Cross sectional electronic survey. Authors of research articles published in the BMJ. 211/415 (51%) eligible authors responded. Three quarters (159/211) said the fact that all readers would have free access to their paper on bmj.com was very important or important to their decision to submit to the BMJ. Over half (111/211) said closure of free access to research articles would make them slightly less likely to submit research articles to the BMJ in the future, 14% (29/211) said they would be much less likely to submit, and 34% (71/211) said it would not influence their decision. Authors were equally divided in their opinion as to whether the closure of access to parts of the journal since January 2005 had affected their view of the BMJ; 40% (84/211) said it had, 38% (80/211) said it had not. In contrast, 67% (141/211) said their view of the BMJ would change if it closed access to research articles. Authors' comments largely focused on disappointment with such a regressive step in the era of open access publishing, loss of a distinctive feature of the BMJ, a perceived reduction in the journal's usefulness as a resource and global influence, restricted readership, less attractive to publish in, and the negative impact on the journal's image. Authors value free access to research articles and consider this an important factor in deciding whether to submit to the BMJ. Closing access to research articles would have a negative effect on authors' perceptions of the journal and their likeliness to submit.
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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Mol Signal
                Title: Journal of Molecular Signaling
                Publisher: BioMed Central (London )
                ISSN (Electronic): 1750-2187
                Publication date Collection: 2006
                Publication date (Electronic): 10 November 2006
                Volume: 1
                Page: 1
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, Temple University School of Medicine, 3307 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA
                Article
                Publisher ID: 1750-2187-1-1
                DOI: 10.1186/1750-2187-1-1
                PMC ID: 1761142
                PubMed ID: 17224077
                SO-VID: 9a54d2ed-23cf-4d88-8a81-bad60cb15fe6
                Copyright © Copyright © 2006 Dhanasekaran; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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                This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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                Date received : 19 July 2006
                Date accepted : 10 November 2006
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                Subject: Editorial

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