Yes, Delayed Access is better than no access. (Toll access is better than no access too.)
Yes, publisher embargoes have cowed (some) authors into providing Delayed Access instead of Open Access. But that does not make Delayed Access Open Access. And the objective is to provide Open Access, immediately upon acceptance for publication, not Delayed Access. That is why Green OA mandates need to be optimized <http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/370203/> so as to maximize deposit rate and minimize deposit latency; and that's also why the copy-request Button <https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/RequestCopy> needs to be implemented to provide Almost-OA, tide over research needs during publisher embargoes, and hasten the demise of all embargoes, hence delays, forcing publishers to downsize and convert to Fair-Gold. (Citations are delayed whether what they cite is Open Access or Delayed Access.) On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Bo-Christer Björk < bo-christer.bj...@hanken.fi> wrote: > 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 >
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