Vol 1, No 1 (2013) 
ISSN 2167-8677 (online) 

DOI 10.5195/d3000.2013.17  

 

 

 

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Introducing Dentistry 3000  
Alexandre R. Vieira 
 
Editor in Chief, Dentistry 3000 
Department of Oral Biology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Dental Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 

 
 

Citation: Vieira AR. (2013) Introducing Dentistry 3000. 
Dentistry 3000 1:a006 doi: 10.5195/d3000.2013.17 
Published: December 12, 2013 
Copyright: ©2013 Vieira. This is an open-access article 
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Work 
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Email: arv11@pitt.edu

 

 

A few decades ago, scientific journals were housed at university libraries, which handled the journal’s peer-review 
process and production. When universities faced economic hardships and library budgets were cut, one solution was 
to allow publishers take over journal responsibilities. Most of the revenue came from readership subscriptions. More 
recently, subscriptions have been under attrition and the model of charging author fees for publication has emerged. 
Parallel to these events is the surge of the World Wide Web and the possibility to publish scientific papers as online 
only. Furthermore, publishers raised fees for online-access to scientific literature. Publishers charge around US$35 for 
access to each individual paper they publish. 

Online-only scientific journals became an attractive business, with some companies holding more than 200 journals 
each and charging author fees from US$300 to more than US$2,000. The quality of these journals has been questioned 
and evidence suggests that the quality of the published papers is lower than other more reputable journals. 

For dental research in particular, opportunities to publish high quality research in highly visible journals can be lim-
ited, despite the fact that more than 2,000 dental journals exist. To provide a venue for the dental community that is 
peer-reviewed, open access with no cost to readers, and free of charge to authors, we created Dentistry 3000. The first 
issue includes five papers, one on the association of cleft lip and palate with interferon regulatory factor 6, one on the 
association of cancer with cleft lip and palate, one on the relationship of tooth and facial dimensions, one on the herit-
ability of facial structures, and one summarizing the proceedings of the cariology symposium during the International 
Association for Dental Research 2012 meeting. 

Dentistry 3000 is published by the University Library Systems, University of Pittsburgh, as part of its D-Scribe Digital 
Publishing Program, and is cosponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Press. 

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