So, do we have 2 or 74 percent Open Access availability? | I&M / I&O 2.0

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-12-14

Summary:

"Anyone following Open Access developments is confronted almost daily with new policies, mandates, goals, definitions, delimitations and the concomitant quantitative underpinnings. The passed two months saw a rush hour frenzy with the announcement of new OA policy from the main Dutch research funder NWO, procedures from HEFCE in the UK with details of their deposit mandate, the release of six reports from Canadian Science Metrix prepared for the European Commission earlier this year, major researcher surveys by Nature and by Taylor&Francis, a business report on the OA market, calculations on the cost of OA by Wouter Gerritsma at the Amsterdam (UvA/HvA) OA symposium and more. This avalanche is of course no coincidence as the period around the Open Access week is deal to get OA stakeholders’ attention. Being a bit of a number cruncher, my attention was caught by some amazing facts & figures that surfaced from the depths of these these reports ..."

Link:

http://im2punt0.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/so-do-we-have-2-or-74-percent-open-access-availability/

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Tags:

oa.gold oa.green oa.reports oa.mandates oa.funders oa.comment oa.new oa.uk oa.usa ru.sparc oa.repositories oa.policies oa.journals

Date tagged:

12/14/2014, 10:06

Date published:

12/14/2014, 08:52