Nature News Blog: How many research papers are freely available?

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"[T]he proportion of research papers freely available is slowly and steadily creeping upwards. The chart shows the proportion of papers indexed on the (largely biomedical) PubMed repository each year that are now freely accessible: in 2009, it’s above 28%. (Some of this literature is not immediately available at the time that it is published, because of journal policies that impose embargo periods on when material can become free). Those numbers are even more impressive than a study last year which found that around 20% of research papers published in 2008 were freely available on the internet. The growth is due to various public access mandates by federal government and by funding agencies – as well as the success of open access publishers like the Public Library of Science. “What’s interesting is the relatively stable linear slope here for more than 10 years,” says David Lipman, director of the US National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Institutes of Health, which houses PubMed. “Would we expect that to continue at the same rate with around 50% of the literature published in 2021 freely available?” ..."

Link:

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/08/how_many_research_papers_are_f.html

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » Connotea Imports

Tags:

oa.new oa.pubmed oa.usa ru.ps oa.growth oa.jstor oa.guerrilla

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:57

Date published:

08/01/2011, 16:11