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Abstract
As previously announced in mid-2010, Veterinary Research became an Open Access (OA)
journal, published with BioMed Central, on 1st January 2011.
OA is defined as free, immediate, permanent and full-text online access for any user
to peer reviewed research. Authors retain the copyright for their articles and grant
anyone the right to copy, distribute or display the work provided that it is correctly
cited. Some of the expected advantages of OA are increased visibility, wider audience
and greater impact, accelerated publication, increased citations, and enhanced availability
of online search tools.
Veterinary Research will continue to be supported by INRA and there is no change in
the journal's title, scope of interests, editorial management, or peer-review process.
The OA business model is relatively new and the cost of OA publication is a much-discussed
question. The economic basis of OA is that authors, or rather their home institutions
or research funders, are charged a fee to have their work published, instead of the
readers being charged to access articles. The number of universities, funding agencies,
and other organisations supporting OA and covering OA publication charges is growing
rapidly and worldwide. A prominent example is the Harvard-initiated "Compact for Open
Access Publishing Equity"[1], and more and more universities are introducing central
OA funding mechanisms as the equivalents to library budgets that pay for subscriptions[2].
OA publishers like BioMed Central have membership arrangements[3] with research institutions
across the globe.
For Veterinary Research the article processing charge for each accepted manuscript
will be
500 euros in 2011
. This flat fee, which is supported by INRA and covers additional files (including
movies) and data, is a highly competitive charge in the world of OA publishing.
We are convinced that publishing Veterinary Research as an Open Access journal will
contribute to maintaining and further developing a high-quality journal in the field
of the infectious diseases of animals. We look forward to working with all of you
in the near future.
Best regards,
Michel Brémont
Editor-in-Chief
and
Élodie Coulamy
Editorial Assistant
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.