Open access for the non-English-speaking world overcoming the language barrier 英文参考文献.docVIP

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology BioMedCentral Editorial Open Access Open access for the non-English-speaking world: overcoming the language barrier Isaac CH Fung Address: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, UK Email: Isaac CH Fung - i.fung@imperial.ac.uk Published: 4 January 2008 Received: 11 April 2007 Accepted: 4 January 2008 Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2008, 5:1 doi:10.1186/1742-7622-5-1 This article is available from: /content/5/1/1 ? 2008 Fung; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract This editorial highlights the problem of language barrier in scientific communication in spite of the recent success of Open Access Movement. Four options for English-language journals to overcome the language barrier are suggested: 1) abstracts in alternative languages provided by authors, 2) Wiki open translation, 3) international board of translator-editors, and 4) alternative language version of the journal. The Emerging Themes in Epidemiology announces that with immediate effect, it will accept translations of abstracts or full texts by authors as Additional files. Editorial note: In an effort towards overcoming the language barrier in scientific publication, ETE will accept translations of abstracts or the full text of published articles. Each translation should be submitted separately as an Additional File in PDF format. ETE will only peer review English-language versions. Therefore, translations will not be scrutinized in the review-process and the responsibility for accurate translation rests with the authors. The language barrier pete internationally [3,9,11]. This is a question of efficiency: how does the scient