The open access advantage

被引:43
作者
Eysenbach, Gunther
机构
[1] Univ Toronto, Ctr Global eHlth Innovat, Toronto, ON M5G 2C4, Canada
[2] Univ Toronto, Hlth Network, Toronto, ON M5G 2C4, Canada
关键词
knowledge translation; open access; bibliometrics; open source;
D O I
10.2196/jmir.8.2.e8
中图分类号
R19 [保健组织与事业(卫生事业管理)];
学科分类号
摘要
A study published today in PLoS Biology provides robust evidence that open-access articles are more immediately recognized and cited than non-OA articles. This editorial provides some additional follow up data from the most recent analysis of the same cohort in April 2006, 17 to 21 months after publication. These data suggest that the citation gap between open access and non-open access papers continues to widen. I conclude with the observation that the "open access advantage" has at least three components: (1) a citation count advantage (as a metric for knowledge uptake within the scientific community), (2) an end user uptake advantage, and (3) a cross-discipline fertilization advantage. More research is needed, and JMIR is inviting research on all aspects of open access. As the advantages for publishing open access from a researchers' point of view become increasingly clear, questions around the sustainability of open access joumals remain. This journal is a living example that "lean publishing" models can create successful open access journals. Open source tools which have been developed by the Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia with contributions from the Epublishing & Open Access group at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation in Toronto are an alternative to hosting joumals on commercial open access publisher sites.
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