towards bioinformatics, rather than medical or health informatics, but
it is a bit too early to tell. Other, better established BioMed Central
journals have long accepted papers in the "Software" category to which
source code could be attached as an appendix, thus I am not sure what
the intent of this new journal is. Perhaps it will have less formal or
rigorous peer-review of submitted manuscripts and concentrate more on
the code, to encourage contributions from those who are more comfortable
writing code than prose? See http://www.scfbm.org/
Note that BMC provides free access to it journals to everyone but they
levy per-paper author charges. However, many academic and research
institutions have taken out memberships with BMC which provides for the
per-paper charges to be waived, and the charges are also waived for
authors from transitional and developing countries. It seems to be a
reasonable and sustainable business model - BMC has been operating and
slowly expanding for six years now. And of course you don't sign over
copyright to them as most journal publishers require - you just license
your paper (or code) to them (in a non-exclusive fashion, so you can
republish your paper etc elsewhere) to permit them to publish it - and
it gets deposited in various biomedical literature repositories in the
US and Europe eg the US National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central
repository. Perhaps that is the main value of contributing source code
to it - to have the code archived and accessible forever?
Anyway, an interesting development.
Tim C
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