Publish or Perish — Self-Archive to Flourish: The Green Route to Open Access
Publish or Perish — Self-Archive to Flourish: The Green Route to Open Access
The online-age practice of self-archiving has been shown to increase citation impact by a dramatic 50-250%, but so far only 15% of researchers are actually doing it. If a country invests R billion Euros in its research, this translates into the loss of 50% x 85% = 42.5% or close to R/2 billion Euros’ worth of potential citation impact simply for failing to self-archive it all. It is as if someone bought R billion Euros worth of batteries and lost 42.5% of their potential usage simply for failing to refrigerate them all before use. Europe is losing almost 50% of the potential return on its research investment until research funders and institutions mandate that all research findings must be made freely accessible to all would-be users, webwide.
open access, research impact, citations, research funding, self-archiving, university policy, RCUK, RAE
Harnad, Stevan
442ee520-71a1-4283-8e01-106693487d8b
January 2006
Harnad, Stevan
442ee520-71a1-4283-8e01-106693487d8b
Harnad, Stevan
(2006)
Publish or Perish — Self-Archive to Flourish: The Green Route to Open Access.
ERCIM News, 64.
Abstract
The online-age practice of self-archiving has been shown to increase citation impact by a dramatic 50-250%, but so far only 15% of researchers are actually doing it. If a country invests R billion Euros in its research, this translates into the loss of 50% x 85% = 42.5% or close to R/2 billion Euros’ worth of potential citation impact simply for failing to self-archive it all. It is as if someone bought R billion Euros worth of batteries and lost 42.5% of their potential usage simply for failing to refrigerate them all before use. Europe is losing almost 50% of the potential return on its research investment until research funders and institutions mandate that all research findings must be made freely accessible to all would-be users, webwide.
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Published date: January 2006
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open access, research impact, citations, research funding, self-archiving, university policy, RCUK, RAE
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/261715
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