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BMJ and Jisc collaborate to support open access publishing
A transitional agreement between the BMJ and Jisc has been hailed as a way to make UK research more accessible and sustainable. Healthcare knowledge
provider, BMJ, and not-for- profit technology provider for research and education, Jisc, have agreed a ‘publish and read’ pilot as part of a commitment to promote knowledge and speed up discoveries to boost UK healthcare.
The 12-month pilot builds on
a long-standing collaboration between the two organisations. It grants Jisc members full read
access to the BMJ’s standard collection of 28 specialist journals, and gives researchers at these member institutions the opportunity to publish funded articles on an open access (OA) basis in the BMJ collection. Under the agreement, research funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Wellcome, and key medical charities in the UK can be published OA. BMJ has a long reputation as a pioneering publisher and champion of OA research, while Jisc supports UK universities and research institutions in negotiating transformative agreements with publishers. More than half of UK research output is covered by a Jisc-negotiated transformative agreement. Claire Rawlinson, BMJ publisher, said: ‘This agreement is a demonstration of our commitment to the transition to an OA future, making the content of our world-leading collection of specialist journals available to as wide an audience as possible.’ She added: ‘Through this
agreement with Jisc, BMJ aims to continue, redefine and grow a longstanding partnership, whilst supporting open access publishing across UK medical universities.’ Caren Milloy, director of
licencing at Jisc, said: ‘This pilot agreement is a tangible result of our joint mission of making open access the default for academic publishing.’
26 Research Information April/May 2021
Covid, climate and racism papers dominate Altmetric Top 100
Covid-19 research papers make up around 30 per cent of the Altmetric Top 100. The annual Altmetric Top 100 highlights
research and scholarly commentary published the previous year that generated significant international online attention and discussion – from patents and public policy documents to mainstream media, blogs, Wikipedia and social media platforms. This year's Top 100 represents the most discussed research from all disciplines, selecting the top five works by Altmetric Attention Score from 20 subjects. The Covid-19 research in the Top 100 was across many disciplines, including biomedicine, built environment and design, and economics. Virus transmission and face-mask protection were among the most heavily discussed topics. Top articles on Covid-19 include:
• Effectiveness of adding a mask recommendation to other public health measures to prevent Sars-CoV-2 infection in Danish mask wearers;
• Aerosol and surface stability of Sars- CoV-2 as compared with Sars-CoV-1;
• I t is time to address airborne transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19);
• Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit the recently emerged novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in vitro; and
• A modelling framework to assess the likely effectiveness of facemasks in combination with 'lockdown' in managing the Covid-19 pandemic.
Two other themes emerged in the Top 100: climate change and racism. In a year that saw global lockdowns and a corresponding dip in CO2 emissions, one article discussed exactly that. Other articles on climate change look at deforestation, rising temperatures in oceans and greenhouse gas emissions. Top articles on climate change include:
• Global increase in major tropical cyclone probability over the past four decades;
• Deforestation and world population sustainability: a quantitative analysis;
• Record-setting ocean warmth continued in 2019;
• Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass;
• Temporary reduction in daily global CO2 emissions during the Covid-19 forced confinement;
• Utilising smart-meter data to project impacts of urban warming on residential electricity use for vulnerable populations in southern California; and
• Comparative greenhouse gas footprinting of online versus traditional shopping for fast-moving consumer goods: a stochastic approach.
On racial justice, two articles reflected on police violence and reform while others discussed institutional racism in academia: • Mapping fatal police violence across US metropolitan areas: overall rates and racial/ethnic inequities, 2013-2017;
• Active learning narrows achievement gaps for underrepresented students in undergraduate science, technology, engineering and maths;
• Five years after Ferguson: reflecting on police reform and what's ahead;
• Decolonising art history; • Making black women scientists under white empiricism: the racialisation of epistemology in physics; and
• Disadvantages in preparing and publishing scientific papers caused by the dominance of the English language in science: the case of Colombian researchers in biological sciences.
Kathy Christian, CEO, Altmetric, said: ‘In 2020, Covid-19 dominated the minds of everyone, and scientific research was front and centre in the media, as pharmaceutical companies rushed to create a vaccine. ‘It is also important to remember that other important research took place. Research on racial justice, climate change, origins of life and other crucial issues also garnered significant attention. This list demonstrates the crucial role that
research plays in our everyday lives.’ l View the full list at:
www.altmetric.com/top100/2020/
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