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

@article{citeulike:72145, 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.}, author = {Harnad, Stevan and Brody, Tim and Vallieres, Francois and Carr, Les and Hitchcock, Steve and Gingras, Yves and Oppenheim, Charles and Stamerjohanns, Heinrich and Hilf, Eberhard R. }, citeulike-article-id = {72145}, doi = {10.1016/j.serrev.2004.09.013}, journal = {Serials Review}, keywords = {openaccess}, number = {4}, pages = {310--314}, posted-at = {2007-03-15 16:56:47}, priority = {2}, title = {The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.serrev.2004.09.013}, volume = {30}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:72145 L3 - citeulike-article-id:72145 TI - The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access JF - Serials Review VL - 30 IS - 4 SP - 310 EP - 314 N2 - 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. KW - openaccess AU - Harnad, Stevan AU - Brody, Tim AU - Vallieres, Francois AU - Carr, Les AU - Hitchcock, Steve AU - Gingras, Yves AU - Oppenheim, Charles AU - Stamerjohanns, Heinrich AU - Hilf, Eberhard PY - 2004/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.serrev.2004.09.013 ER -