Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

In the last two decades, the world of scientific publishing has changed significantly. Online publishing, open access, big data, innovations in peer review and commercial pressures have created a publishing environment starkly different to that faced by health researchers just 20 years ago. At the same time, there has been a rise in new kind of publishing body; Predatory Journals. In the Canadian context, respected journals that once provided a home for excellent scientific advances and conference abstracts have been purchased by international publishers that are focused on printing junk science for profit, and many are now at risk of being delisted on PubMed (the gold standard for trustworthy, peer-reviewed scholarship). For the Canadian HIV research community, this new reality has created a void for investigators seeking to publish their valuable research. Scientific advances, conference abstracts, and clinical guidelines are all without a publishing home. Accordingly, this grant application seeks funding to launch a new not for profit HIV research journal, providing a home for quality Canadian HIV science.