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For what it's worth, this has been going on for at least 10 years in my experience. It's existence isn't so much news to me -- but it's news that it's still aro
by DaveWalk 11y ago
For what it's worth, this has been going on for at least 10 years in my experience. It's existence isn't so much news to me -- but it's news that it's still around.
In the life sciences, the NIH has personally dealt with several publishers on this issue. The result is that many large journals will ultimately open up their archives on PubMedCentral[0], one year after publication. For most researchers staying current, this is nearly useless.
[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
- Fomite 11y agoI wouldn't say nearly useless. For my "most cited" paper, the vast bulk of the citations from said paper took place several years after it went into open access because it was NIH funded. Heck, "peak citation" was this year, a full 8 years after it was published. The same general trend is true for my second most cited paper - peak citation is several years after the fact. Both of these papers were also trivially easy to find in PDF form online.