GME Scholarly Activities Resources: Submitting a Manuscript

UNLV School of Medicine Library is has an "institutional fellow" subscription with BMJ Case Reports.

BMJ offers Institutional Fellowships, giving all faculty, staff and students within your institution the freedom to submit as many cases as they like as well as access to and reuse of all the published material.What's great about this subscription is that Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine medical faculty, medical students, residents and fellows can publish their case reports in this publication without paying author fees* (excluding articles that are open access, see below):

Additional Perks:

• Submit as many case reports as you like
• Access to 20,000+ case reports – the largest, peer-reviewed case reports database in the world.
• Author tools, such as peer review, report templates and copyediting
• Downloadable images and permission to reuse content

*Additional Fees: 

• This journal offers the option to publish open access articles which become freely accessible the day it is published in the journal. If you wish to publish your article as open access and it is accepted, there is an additional fee that is required for this option. "Authors may make their accepted article open access at an extra cost of £400 (+VAT). This is an extra fee to the Fellowship, but is only charged if your article is accepted." 

How it Works:

See the Case Reports User Guide below to learn how to submit case reports.

When you get to the ‘Details & Comments’ section of the submission process you will be asked to enter a fellowship code to prove that you, or your institution, has access to BMJ Case Reports. This is only available to active UNLV faculty, staff, medical students, residents and fellows. Please email medlib@unlv.edu to request the code.

Why have I been asked to pay to publish my article?

Article Processing Charges (APCs) are charged to authors of scholarly articles during the publication process. APCs are used by open access journals in lieu of subscription fees that libraries and readers traditionally have paid to gain access to research articles. APCs shift the burden of journal production costs (editing, peer review, hosting, archiving, preservation), to authors from readers. Paying an APC results in an article that is available to anyone with an internet connection. Corporate, non-profit, society, academic, and other publishers use a variety of models to meet their income needs and publishing service costs, and charging APCs is one model.

APCs should not be confused with page charges long associated with both print and digital publications. Page charges are used to cover administrative costs as well as the cost of print publication, but do not make the article available in an open access (OA) model.