4. “Open Access is likely to benefit
science by accelerating dissemination
and uptake of research findings.”
Eysenbach G, (2006) Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles.
PLoS Biol 4(5): e157. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157
5. a quality advantage,
from users self-selecting
what to use and cite,
freed by open access
from the constraints of
selective accessibility”
Gargouri Y, Hajjem C, Larivière V, Gingras Y, Carr L, et al. (2010)
Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases
Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research.
PLoS ONE 5(10): e13636.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013636
“not because of a quality bias from authors
self-selecting what to make OA, but because of
eg.
journal clubs
12. www.biomedcentral.com
Open access waiver fund
To support researchers in developing countries, BioMed Central operates
a waiver scheme that enables authors to publish their research in a
BioMed Central journal without incurring the usual article-processing
charge.
BioMed Central provides an automatic waiver to authors based in any
country, which was classified by the World Bank as Low-income
economies or Lower-middle-income economies as of July 2010, and which
has a 2009 gross domestic product of less than 200 billion US dollars.
14. PubMedCentral is a free full-text archive
of biomedical and life sciences journal literature
at the U.S. National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine.
but not just U.S., for example:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc
15. “the problem is not with the open access models
but rather with the impact factor...
…impact factor no longer reflects article usage
and dissemination of knowledge…
…committees awarding promotions and tenures based on
impact factors are making their decisions, in my opinion,
on an outdated model.”
M. Castillo (2009) Citations and Open Access: Questionable Benefits
AJNR Am. J. Neuroradiol. 30: 215-216.
16. “Academic institutions will need to create
new criteria
(number of hits? number of PDF and full-text downloads and other on-line profiles?)
to assess the importance of research.”
M. Castillo (2009) Citations and Open Access: Questionable Benefits
AJNR Am. J. Neuroradiol. 30: 215-216.