Re: Press Release: NHS ENGLAND EXTEND BIOMED CENTRAL MEMBERSHIP TO 2008

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>]

This is much more convincing than percentages. Do the NHS have any record
of the numbers of their staff who contribute to other journals?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Cockerill" <matt@biomedcentral.com>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: Press Release: NHS ENGLAND EXTEND BIOMED CENTRAL MEMBERSHIP TO
2008

> Anthony,
>
> The figures about accessibility of NHS research within the NHS are taken
> from research that BioMed Central did in collaboration with the NHS last
> year and submitted to the House of Commons Science & Technology committee
> inquiry on science publishing:
> http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/
> 399/399we53.htm
>
> The annex lists the raw data:
> http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmsctech/
> 399/399we54.htm
>
> The exact number of articles being published by BioMed Central is open for
> all to see - for example, all our open access articles, once published in
> final form, are made available for download here:
> http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/datamining/
>
> There are currently more than 11,700 open access articles.  (2 years
> ago it was only 3500)
>
> Similarly, NHS England has a "member page" on BioMed Central, which lists
> all the articles published by its researchers in BioMed Central journals:
> http://www.biomedcentral.com/inst/37456
>
> The press release listed increases, rather than absolute figures, just
> because that was the simplest and most direct way to make our point -
> which was that the NHS's use of BioMed Central has grown rapidly since it
> became a BioMed Central member.
>
> Matt Cockerill
> Publisher
> BioMed Central (http://www.biomedcentral.com)
> Email: matt@biomedcentral.com
>
>
> On 14 Nov 2005, at 0:22, Anthony Watkinson wrote:
>
> > The recent spate of BMC press releases are remarkably opaque.
> > Percentages in this case are pointless if we do not know the numbers
> > involved.  Can we see these numbers? Come back Jan Velterop.
> >
> > Anthony Watkinson