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Publishing at the British Institute of Radiology: A case study
Author(s) -
Anderton Sophia
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1002/leap.1267
Subject(s) - publishing , outreach , work (physics) , value (mathematics) , library science , key (lock) , open access publishing , field (mathematics) , political science , sociology , public relations , computer science , law , engineering , mechanical engineering , computer security , mathematics , machine learning , pure mathematics
Key points The British Institute of Radiology (BIR) receives more than 50% of its income from its publishing programme, vital to support its educational, outreach, and advocacy work. Radiology has been very slow to adopt open access publishing, mostly because of the paucity of funding in the field – representing only c.5% of articles in the BIR flagship journal. Small independent society publishers can be more flexible than larger publishers but rely on networks of support from associations and other societies and reliable suppliers. Society publishers have a ready‐made community of readers and authors who value the work of the organization and its publications.