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The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access

Harnad, S., Brody, T., Vallieres, F., Carr, L., Hitchcock, S., Gingras, Y., Oppenheim, C., Stamerjohanns, H. and Hilf, E. R. (2004) The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access. Serials review, 30 (4).

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The research access/impact problem arises because journal articles are not accessible to all of their would-be users, hence they are losing potential research impact. The solution is to make all articles Open Access (OA, i.e., accessible online, free for all). OA articles have significantly higher citation impact than non-OA articles. There are two roads to OA: the "golden" road (publish your article in an OA journal) and the "green" road (publish your article in a non-OA journal but also self-archive it in an OA archive). Only 5% of journals are gold, but over 90% are already green (i.e., they have given their authors the green light to self-archive); yet only about 10-20% of articles have been self-archived. To reach 100% OA, self-archiving needs to be mandated by researchers' employers and funders, as the UK and US have recently recommended, and universities need to implement that mandate.

Item Type:Article
Creator/Authors:
Stevan Harnad
Tim Brody
Francois Vallieres
Les Carr
Steve Hitchcock
Yves Gingras
Charles Oppenheim
Heinrich Stamerjohanns
Eberhard R Hilf
Keywords:self-archiving, research impact, citation, scientometrics, open access
Additional Information:Bug with cloning: trails versions of other articles as if prior versions of the cloned article, even when they are not...
Research Group:Current ECS Groups > Web and Internet Science
Old ECS Groups > Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
Alternative Locations:http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/impact.htm...
Date:October 2004
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Deposited On:02 Jan 2005 by Harnad, Stevan

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