Dear all, I agree with Heather that we should take a more inclusive approach to Open Access. For most ordinary academics and non-academics all that counts is getting access to particular articles they want to read that more often than not are identified via references.
The landscape is not black and white. Most of Green OA for reasons of embargoes and author behavior is delayed OA. In a study we made a couple of years ago (Delayed Open Access – an overlooked high-impact category of openly available scientific literature Mikael Laakso and Bo-Christer Björk) we estimated that of the citations (not cited articles) in Web of Knowledge in the last available year: 80 % pointed to articles in closed subscription journals (of which some may be found as green copies) 6 % pointed to articles in immediate OA journals 14 % pointed to articles in delayed OA journals with embargo periods of max 12 months. This is due to the fact that many of the some 500 delayed OA journals that we found were high volume and impact. The figures might look a bit different today but the overall picture is the same. To me it is clear that the reading of scholarly articles that you track via citations is a very important part of the all reading of scholarly articles. Bo-Christer Björk _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
