{"id":281,"date":"2010-06-11T16:22:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T16:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2010\/06\/11\/prizes_and_anniversaries\/"},"modified":"2011-03-02T20:25:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:25:48","slug":"prizes_and_anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2010\/06\/11\/prizes_and_anniversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Prizes and anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I attended BioMedCentral&#8217;s 10th anniversary celebrations and research awards. Yes, it is a whole ten years ago that Vitek Tracz created his novel publishing business model of &#8220;author pays&#8221; open access, or &#8220;gold&#8221; open access as it is sometimes known. At the time it excited quite a bit of discussion (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/users.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/harnad\/Hypermail\/Amsci\/0516.html\">this message<\/a> and others in the thread) and I suspect that many people thought it was a crazy idea. BMC has had a few ups and down since then &#8211; raising its prices and changing the way that its membership subscriptions worked, then being bought up by one of the big commercial publishers &#8211; but it has survived and appears to be moderately successful. So, I think congratulations are due to the BMC team.  The model they pioneered has been successful and has been taken up by a wide variety of publishers, even our own dear NPG (though perhaps not as widely as <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.berkeley.edu\/2010\/06\/10\/the-nature-kerfuffle-boycott-the-business-model-not-the-price\/\">some would want<\/a>).<br \/>\nCongratulations are due to BMC not least for throwing rather a good party, at the top of the Gherkin building, giving me an excuse to post a few photos here. Sadly it was rather a gloomy, overcast evening so they are a bit grey.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"roof.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/franknorman\/2010\/06\/11\/bmcawards\/roof.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<em>Roof of the Gherkin building<\/em><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"view1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/franknorman\/2010\/06\/11\/bmcawards\/view1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<em>View from the Gherkin<\/em><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"view2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/franknorman\/2010\/06\/11\/bmcawards\/view2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<em>Another view, showing Tower 42<\/em><br \/>\nThe BMC research awards were also presented, with Matt Cockerill doing his best Jonathan Ross impersonation and a host of luminaries announcing the prizes: Tim Hunt, Richard Smith, Peter Murray-Rust, Cameron Neylon, to name a few.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biomedcentral.com\/researchawards\/winners\/\">list of prize-winners<\/a> is on the BMC website. I didn&#8217;t receive a prize, in case you were wondering. Neither did another NN <del>reprobate<\/del> regular who was there:<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"grahamsteel.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/franknorman\/2010\/06\/11\/bmcawards\/grahamsteel.jpg\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<em>Graham Steel &#8211; looking scary<\/em><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know how many other publishers award prizes for papers they publish, but it is a nice idea.  <em>PNAS<\/em> have their Cozzarelli prize.  The 2009 winners were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biotechniques.com\/news\/Naked-mole-rat-and-nanoscale-imaging-research-win-2009-Cozzarelli-prizes\/biotechniques-296802.html\">announced<\/a> recently. I&#8217;m not aware of any others.<br \/>\nAnyway, here&#8217;s to the 20th anniversary party in 2020.  I&#8217;m putting the date in my Google calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I attended BioMedCentral&#8217;s 10th anniversary celebrations and research awards. 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