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PC/16/12<br />
Publishers report, including marketing report<br />
Phil Bishop and Laura Orchard presented the publishers report and marketing report. The<br />
following matters arising were NOTED:<br />
(a) Data demonstrated that mean acceptance time to publication in 2015 was 4.5 weeks with<br />
responses from author surveys being favourable, borne out by a lack of complaints received<br />
post-acceptable by the BSAC editorial office.<br />
(b) OUP projections suggest that the Impact Factor this year will be on the edge of 5.0 but it was<br />
agreed it would be preferable if JAC did not fall below 5.0. It was agreed that CMI should<br />
be included on the IF slide by OUP for future reports.<br />
(c) There has been a slight increase in monthly downloads (1.6%).<br />
(d) The establishment of the supplements working group and the alteration of the Aims and<br />
Scope were good progress for the Journal.<br />
(e) Marketing objectives for 2016 are to increase usage by 5% and exposure of the journal<br />
through conference presence and social media activities and to continue to support the<br />
Editorial team in obtaining high quality submissions for JAC.<br />
(f) The Editor in Chief will request more help from BSAC with ‘boots on the ground’ at key<br />
meetings and people talking to high quality authors and encouraging them to submit to JAC<br />
(he cited the example of John McConnell at Lancet Infectious Diseases who spends a lot of<br />
time making the right contacts at meetings).<br />
PC/16/13<br />
Websites<br />
It was NOTED that the BSAC has the following websites that promotes its initiatives and activities:<br />
www.bsac.org.uk<br />
BSAC main website, currently under review<br />
www.antibiotic-action.com Antibiotic Action, due for relaunch September 2015<br />
www.e-opat.com<br />
UK OPAT Initiative<br />
www.res-surv.org Resistance Surveillance, relaunched in 2014<br />
www.nas-pps.com<br />
Placeholder website for the forthcoming Point Prevalence Survey<br />
system; will be developed to full site for launch<br />
www.appg-on-antibitoics All Party Parliamentary Group on Antibiotics<br />
http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/ - JAC, managed by OUP<br />
www.futurelearn.com/courses/antimicrobial-stewardship -<br />
managed by FutureLearn for Massive Open Online Course on Antimicrobial Stewardship<br />
PC/16/14<br />
Any other business<br />
PC/14/14a<br />
DeepDyve<br />
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