Critique of ALPSP'S 1st Response to RCUK's Open Access Self-Archiving Proposal
Critique of ALPSP'S 1st Response to RCUK's Open Access Self-Archiving Proposal
The Research Councils of the UK (RCUK) propose to require that the authors of all journal articles resulting from RCUK-funded research must make them openly accessible by self-archiving them on the web in order maximise their usage and impact. ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) claim that this will have a negative effect on journals, but they provide no evidence to support their claim. All existing evidence from 15 years of self-archiving is actually to the contrary: Journal publication coexists peacefully with author self-archiving, even when it reaches 100%, with both researchers and their journals benefitting from the resulting enhanced research usage and impact.
RCUK, institutional repository, self-archiving, research impact, open access, institutional open access policy
Harnad, Stevan
442ee520-71a1-4283-8e01-106693487d8b
2005
Harnad, Stevan
442ee520-71a1-4283-8e01-106693487d8b
Harnad, Stevan
(2005)
Critique of ALPSP'S 1st Response to RCUK's Open Access Self-Archiving Proposal.
Abstract
The Research Councils of the UK (RCUK) propose to require that the authors of all journal articles resulting from RCUK-funded research must make them openly accessible by self-archiving them on the web in order maximise their usage and impact. ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) claim that this will have a negative effect on journals, but they provide no evidence to support their claim. All existing evidence from 15 years of self-archiving is actually to the contrary: Journal publication coexists peacefully with author self-archiving, even when it reaches 100%, with both researchers and their journals benefitting from the resulting enhanced research usage and impact.
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Published date: 2005
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Commentary On: http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/access/statement.pdf
Keywords:
RCUK, institutional repository, self-archiving, research impact, open access, institutional open access policy
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Web & Internet Science
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Local EPrints ID: 261132
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/261132
PURE UUID: 24d96211-7d2c-41ba-ae82-eece7960a487
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Date deposited: 09 Aug 2005
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:48
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Stevan Harnad
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