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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%1 citeulike:72145
%A Harnad, Stevan
%A Brody, Tim
%A Vallieres, Francois
%A Carr, Les
%A Hitchcock, Steve
%A Gingras, Yves
%A Oppenheim, Charles
%A Stamerjohanns, Heinrich
%A Hilf, Eberhard R.
%D 2004
%J Serials Review
%K openaccess
%N 4
%P 310--314
%R 10.1016/j.serrev.2004.09.013
%T The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.serrev.2004.09.013
%V 30
%X 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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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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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.},
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title = {The Access/Impact Problem and the Green and Gold Roads to Open Access},
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volume = 30,
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