Wissenschaft: Open Access wirkt (06.02.2017)
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Summary:
From Google Translate: "Rostock / Berlin - The publication of scientific results as an open-access contribution can bring the scientific community together in the network and ensure that the contributions are perceived better. This is the result of a new Bachelor thesis at the Chair of Statistics and Econometrics at the University of Rostock.
'Open Access is the free access to scientific literature on the Internet. The aim is to enable the entire science, but also the interested public, to access research results, which are generally financed or promoted by public funds,' explained Lars Findeisen.
In his work, he measured the perception of an essay and used its average, uncited duration, ie the elapsing time until the first quotation. According to the study, open-access essays are quoted significantly earlier than conventionally published, namely on average after twelve instead of after 15 months.
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has also recognized the potential of 'open access' as a standard for scientific publishing and wants to make it the standard for academic publishing in Germany. To this end, the Ministry launched a so-called open access strategy last autumn."