Electronic Publishing in Calicut Medical College, Kerala, India

1. Electronic Publishing at Calicut Medical College,
Kerala: A Case Study of Three Open Access
Journals
Mohamed Musthafa. K
National Conference on “Managing
&
Libraries in New Information
Environment” Dr. Naushad Ali. PM
Organized by
Asia -Pacific Institute of Management Aligarh Muslim University
New Delhi
7-8 January, 2011. Aligarh, India
2011

2. Introduction
E-publishing promises many solutions for the
problems faced by P-publishing
EP supports the researchers to communicate
each other directly without much delay in
publication and peer review process
By 1990s many Indian journals have started
e-publishing.
– By 1999 Current Science, Neurology India,
Indian Pediatrics, …

3. Calicut Medical College, Kerala
Calicut Medical College is a premier institute
leads medical research in Kerala
Scholarly EP started in Calicut Medical
College in 2001

4. Electronic publishing
“publishing on computer network or
disk: the production of documents in
computer-readable form for distribution
over a computer network or in other
formats such as CD-ROMs” (Encarta)

5. Electronic publishing
“The process of creating and disseminating
information via electronic means including e-
mail and via the web is electronic publishing.
Electronically published materials may
originate as traditional paper publishing or
may be created specifically for electronic
publishing” (Bear, 2003)

6. Open Access Publishing
-Free access to scholarly publications
available online to the end users which
can be reproduced and distributed freely

7. Budapest Open Access Initiative
(BOAI) definition:
- Free availability on the public internet,
- Permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print,
search, or link to the full texts of these articles,
- Crawl them for indexing,
- Pass them as data to software,
- Or use them for any other lawful purpose,
- Without financial, legal, or technical barriers
- The only constraint on reproduction and distribution:
- to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the
right to be properly acknowledged and cited’ (BOAI, 2002).

8. Objectives of the Study
To gather the data related to open access e-
Publishing in Calicut Medical College, Kerala
- their subject coverage,
- periodicity,
- format,
- full text availability,
- copy right policy and
- special features.

9. Journals Under Study
1) The Calicut Medical Journal (CMJ),
2) The Journal of Orthopedics (JO) and
3) The Internet Journal of Cardiology (IJC).

10. Methodology
Data Collection:
– A well structured questionnaire for editors,
– literature,
– directories of open access journals, and
– website of the institutions.
Analysis of Data (content and authors of the journals)
– A sample of last three years (2008-2010)
each and every items published in each issues
every authors and their affiliation.

11. Analysis and Findings
Subject coverage
The Calicut Medical Journal (CMJ)
– Biomedical subjects;
The Journal of Orthopedics (JO)
– ‘Tropical Orthopedics’
The Internet Journal of Cardiology (IJC)
– Cardiology and related topics.

12. Analysis and Findings
Periodicity
The Calicut Medical Journal (CMJ)
– Quarterly (first issue 2003, 8 vols & 27 issues)
The Journal of Orthopedics (JO)
– Quarterly (first issue 2004, 7 vols & 28 issues)
The Internet Journal of Cardiology (IJC)
– Bi-annually (first issue 2001, 9 vols & 17 issues)

13. Analysis and Findings
Peer review / Full text availability
– All the three journals are peer reviewed (by a group
of reviewers)
– Available full text in all journals
Format used
– CMJ - PDF
– JO - HTML
– IJC - HTML
(The contents are copy friendly in all journals)

14. Analysis and Findings
Subscription
– open access and free to use,
Publication Charges
The Internet Journal of Cardiology
– $ 25 for submission (when submitting the article)
– $225 for publication of each article (payable before
publishing).
– $25 is charged for author name changes or additions
– and $ 40 for correction within the text (after an article was
published)

15. Analysis and Findings
Sponsor / Publisher
– The CMJ and JO - on behalf of Calicut Medical
College Alumni Associations
– IJC by Internet Scientific Publication
(ISPUB.COM).
All journals publish medical related
advertisements

16. Analysis and Findings
Indexing/Abstracting and Archiving of Content
Calicut Medical Journal of The Internet Jrl.
Journal Orthopedics Of Cardiology
Indexing/ Index Copernicus, OpenMed,Virtual Embase,
MedOne, Journal of Scopus, Cinahl,
Abstracting
Virtual Med, International Ebsco, and Gale.
Coallience journal health,MedOne
DOAJ, Google Ulrich’s Medical DOAJ, Google
Scholar, Directory, Scholar,
Google.com, Open J-Gate,
Full Text listing AOL.com, Open J-Gate
CINAHL database,
Open J-Gate Google.com,
Yahoo.com
Cogprints Cogprints Internet Scientific
LLC publications,
Archiving
LOC Catalogue of
Publication

17. Analysis and Findings
Contributors to the Journals – Indian v/s Foreigners
(Authors are considered on the basis of affiliation, no the origin)
•Maximum number of authors contributed in 2008 (n=428) and
least in 2010 (n=329)
•CMJ – Indian authors contributed more than foreign
•JO & IJC – Foreign authors contributed more than Indian
•Study revealed that OA publishing gives more visibility to research
results through out the world.
•And enrich the content with contribution from an international
authorship.

18. Analysis and Findings
Contributors to the Journals – Indian v/s Foreigners
Calicut Medical Journal Journal of Orthopedics The Internet Jrl. of
Cardiology
Years
Indian Foreign Total Indian Foreign Total Indian Foreign Total
73 12 85 83 166 249 8 86 94
2008 (85.88) (14.11) (100) (33.33) (66.66) (100) (8.51) (91.48) (100)
61 6 67 37 186 223 14 98 112
2009 (91.04) (8.95) (100) (16.59) (83.40) (100) (12.5) (87.5) (100)
47 6 53 25 109 134 8 134 142
2010 (88.67) (11.32) (100) (18.56) (81.34) (100) (5.63) (94.36) (100)

19. Analysis and Findings
•Content distribution 2008-2010
Content Calicut Medical Journal of The Internet Jrl.
Journal Orthopedics of Cardiology
N=82 N=145 N=89
Editorial 10 (12.19%) 11(7.58%) -
Original Research 27(32.92%) 94(64.82%) 33(37.07%)
Review Article 9(10.97%) 1(0.69%) 5(5.61%)
Short Report 19(23.17%) 49(33.79%) 46(51.68%)
Letter / Opinion 5(6.09%) - 5(5.61%)
Radiology Images 11(13.41%) - -
Focal Points 1(1.21%) - -

20. Analysis and Findings
Authors of the Journals (Country wise)
– Indian authors are the highest number (n=355)
– followed by USA (n=176) and UK (n=123)
– Countries like Cuba (55), China (49) and Iran (45)
– Japan, Nigeria, Spain, Mexico, Canada and
Turkey contributed more than 20 authors

21. Analysis and Findings
Copyright policy
IJC
– Demands the author (s) to transfer (s) the
copyright to her/their article to Internet
Scientific Publications, L.L.C.,
– The copyright covers :
– rights to reproduce and distribute the article in any
form of reproduction. Internet Scientific
Publications, L.L.C. should be notified by the
author if the submitted material has been
published somewhere else.

22. Analysis and Findings
Copyright policy
CMJ and JO
– Give copyright of articles to the respective
authors unless otherwise specified.
– The copyright covers :
– Verbatim copying, redistribution and storage of
articles permitted provided no restrictions are
imposed on the access and a hyperlink to the
original article in respective Journals maintained.

23. Conclusion
E-Publishing is being accepted by both researchers and
readers
EP in Calicut Med. College has gained a momentum in the
dissemination of scholarly info. In the field of bio-medical
sciences globally.
OA Publishing enabled both readers and authors to
communicate freely at anytime, anywhere.
E-journals published from CMC have all the features of any
other peer reviewed journals.
The number of Indian contributors to CMC e-journals are the
highest which evidences the acceptance of OA Publishing
system in India