Dear List Members, My review of over 50 papers and reports on "*Who needs access to research? Exploring the societal impact of open access*" was recently published. You can read it online at the journal website (here <http://rfsic.revues.org/3271>) or download the pdf from Zenodo (here <https://zenodo.org/record/1009202>).
Abstract: > Studies about open access (OA) have predominantly focused it impact on > communication within the scholarly community. For example, many studies > have been published on what is called the “Open Access Citation Advantage > (OACA)”. On the other hand, implications of OA in nonacademic contexts > (e.g. medical practice, policymaking, patient advocacy and citizen science) > have been the subject of and the basis for a lot of the advocacy work and > many funding agencies’ OA policies, but not so much the subject of original > research studies. To date, this study is the first attempt to collect and > synthesize the available evidence on the societal impact of open access. It > further builds on this evidence base by introducing a typology of the > various science-society interfaces where demand for access to research > potentially exists. The proposed scheme is anticipated to provide guidance > for future research on the issue of OA’s societal impact. The paper > concludes with a discussion of the implications of non-academic usage of > research on the open access debate, especially on the question of who > should bear the cost of scholarly publishing. > Acknowledgements: > *I would like to express my gratitude to several professors whom I have > not (yet) met but where kind enough to provide some useful insights to my > study over email. These professors are John Willinsky from Stanford > university, Martin Eve from the University of London and Bo-Christer Björk > from the Hanken School of Economics. Special thanks are due to Mike Taylor > from the University of Bristol for offering me space of his website > (whoneedsaccess.org <http://whoneedsaccess.org>) to publicize an early > version of the bibliography I collected.* > Regards, ElHassan
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