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Publish or Perish — Self-Archive to Flourish: The Green Route to Open Access

Harnad, S. (2006) Publish or Perish — Self-Archive to Flourish: The Green Route to Open Access. ERCIM News, 64 .

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Abstract

The online-age practice of self-archiving has been shown to increase citation impact by a dramatic 50-250%, but so far only 15% of researchers are actually doing it. If a country invests R billion Euros in its research, this translates into the loss of 50% x 85% = 42.5% or close to R/2 billion Euros’ worth of potential citation impact simply for failing to self-archive it all. It is as if someone bought R billion Euros worth of batteries and lost 42.5% of their potential usage simply for failing to refrigerate them all before use. Europe is losing almost 50% of the potential return on its research investment until research funders and institutions mandate that all research findings must be made freely accessible to all would-be users, webwide.

Creators:Stevan Harnad
Item Type:Article
Keywords:open access, research impact, citations, research funding, self-archiving, university policy, RCUK, RAE
Research Group:Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
Deposited On:20 Dec 2005 by Harnad, Stevan
Alternative Locations:http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw64/...
ID Code:11715
Last Modified:11 Nov 2009 12:25
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Self-Archiving FAQ

http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq/

Institutional Archives Registry:

http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php'action=browse

Comparing the Impact of Open Access vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals, D-Lib Magazine, June 2004:

http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10207/01/06harnad.html

Swan, A. (2005) Open access self-archiving: An Introduction. Technical Report, JISC, HEFCE:

http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11006/

Recommendations for UK Open Access Provision Policy:

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/%7Eharnad/Temp/UKSTC.htm

UK Research Councils' Position on Access to Research Outputs:

http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/press/20050628openaccess.asp

Effect of open access on citation impact: a bibliography of studies:

http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html

Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2005) Keystroke Economy: A Study of the Time and Effort Involved in Self-Archiving:

http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10688/

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