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SUMMARY:Open Access Megajournals – Have They Changed Everything?
DESCRIPTION:The Open Access ‘Megajournal’ (a class of journal defi
 ned by the success of PLOS ONE) is a reasonably recent phenomenon, but
  one that some observers believe is poised to change the publishing wo
 rld very rapidly.\n\nA megajournal is typically understood to be an on
 line-only journal; covering a very broad subject area; selecting conte
 nt based only on scientific and methodological soundness; and with a b
 usiness model which allows each article to cover its own costs. With t
 hese attributes, megajournals are not limited in potential output and 
 as such are able to grow commensurate with any growth in submissions. 
 PLOS ONE pioneered this category of journal and is currently expected 
 to publish in excess of 30,000 articles in 2013 alone – possibly app
 roaching 3% of all STM articles published that year. Recognizing the s
 uccess of this model, many other publishers (such as Nature, Springer,
  SAGE, BioONE, PeerJ, , BMJ, F1000 and so on) have launched similar jo
 urnals and each of these publishers is seeing their megajournal grow i
 n volume, month on month. In many ways, the growth of the megajournal 
 has been one of the most visible successes of the open access movement
 .\n\nDr Peter Binfield, who led PLOS ONE for 4 years until mid-2012 an
 d left PLOS to co-found PeerJ, has experienced the megajournal both fr
 om within PLOS ONE, and from the point of view of starting an entirely
  new megajournal (PeerJ). In this keynote Peter shares some of his ins
 ights about megajournals, how they operate, how they can succeed, and 
 whether or not this new category of journal will truly revolutionize t
 he publishing landscape.\n\nLive webcast link: http://mediasitemob1.me
 diagroup.ubc.ca/Mediasite/Play/2cdc95b2d56a4c56a6606a6c116a58b01d\n\n\
 nFor more information visit http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/events/op
 en-access-megajournals-have-they-changed-everything-1
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DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20131022T110000
CATEGORIES:presentation, keynote, "live stream"
LOCATION:University of British Columbia
WEBSITE:http://oaweek.open.ubc.ca/2013/09/03/open-access-megajournals/
URL:http://oaweek.open.ubc.ca/2013/09/03/open-access-megajournals/
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ORGANIZER:University of British Columbia Library
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ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Open UBC
 ":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/TraceyVantyghem
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="K. Jane 
 Burpee":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/KJaneBurpee
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Susan P
 etrak":http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/profile/SusanPetrak
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