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The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access
Abstract
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 United Kingdom and the United States have recently recommended, and universities need to implement that mandate.
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Free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact
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Metadata
- Authors
- Harnad, S. R., Brody, T., Vallières, F., Carr, L. A., Hitchcock, S., Gingras, Y., Oppenheim, C., Stamerjohanns, H., & Hilf, E. R.
- Venue
- Serials Review
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Published
- 2004-01-01
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 310-314
- ISSN
- 0098-7913 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2089745446
- Cited by
- 529
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 52.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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