Society for Experimental Biology SEB

1. Society for Experimental Biology SEB Mike Burrell Publications Officer

2. Society for Experimental Biology SEB By US standards – a small society with over 1500 members Mainly from the UK and Europe but with several members from around the world Charitable organisation exists for the benefit of its members to facilitate communication of science at meetings Meetings vary in size from 100 to more than 1000 attendees

3. Devote considerable sums of money to young scientists Those doing their doctoral studies and young post-docs By subsidising membership fees Subsidising attendance at meetings Assisting them to attend non SEB meetings Designing meetings to allow them to present to international audiences in a friendly environment

4. Income Donations From publishing journals Own two journals Part own two other journals From publishing books – mainly high level reviews Over £400,000

5. Strive for high quality publications high quality science Funding for scientists is driven by impact factor Meaningless statistic Academics need to think of a way to measure quality

6. Subscription model Open access Less well off scientists Bureaucacy Peer review Lowers standards

7. Electronic copies One copy of the published paper National repositories

8. Supplementary material Maintaining the data set that was refereed Distinguishing between necessary and possibly useful Scale of the data sets. Now reaching Gb