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Continuous publication

Started by FamManLib · 11 months ago

A colleague informed me of the following interesting news from BMJ: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/336/7659/14... />
Basically BMJ will be presenting articles continuously as they become available. At first this sounds ho hum, not a big deal. But then I got to thinking about it and I think this turn of events is significant. One of the [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • walt crawford

    11 months ago

    On one hand, this isn't a new model for (some) gold OA journals (as BMJ notes). Some journals use "overlay publishing," where a defined issue is a set of pointers to articles that were posted as soon as they were ready. Others have abandoned the issue concept entirely and define the journal as a branded stream of articles. (That model, sometimes difficult to deal with, has been around for years--at least since 1995 and probably before then.)

    Other than BMJ's high profile, what makes BMJ's change interesting is that there's a print journal--and it's becoming a selection of BMJ's published articles rather than the totality. Assuming nobody tries to make a branding distinction between "accepted but not part of the print record" and "part of the print record" this strikes me as a useful innovation.

    [I'm in the process of building a cluster on open access at the PALINET Leadership Network, so I've been thinking about this more than usual.]
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  • FamManLib

    11 months ago

    Walt, good points. Thanks. I can see cataloging implications for this BMJ
    approach. And more.
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