Open Access and Global Participation in Science Export

@article{citeulike:4073431, abstract = {Previous investigations into the impact of open-access journals on subsequent citations confounded open and electronic access and failed to track availability over time. With new data, we separated these effects. We demonstrate that a journal receives a modest increase in citations when it comes online freely, but the jump is larger when it first comes online through commercial sources. This effect reverses for poor countries where free-access articles are much more likely to be cited. Together, findings suggest that free Internet access widens the circle of those who read and make use of scientists' investigations. 10.1126/science.1154562}, author = {Evans, James A. and Reimer, Jacob}, citeulike-article-id = {4073431}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1154562}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/323/5917/1025}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19229029}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19229029}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/323/5917/1025}, doi = {10.1126/science.1154562}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {library, medicine, web}, month = {February}, number = {5917}, pages = {1025+}, posted-at = {2009-02-21 08:36:44}, priority = {2}, title = {Open Access and Global Participation in Science}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1154562}, volume = {323}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4073431 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4073431 N2 - Previous investigations into the impact of open-access journals on subsequent citations confounded open and electronic access and failed to track availability over time. With new data, we separated these effects. We demonstrate that a journal receives a modest increase in citations when it comes online freely, but the jump is larger when it first comes online through commercial sources. This effect reverses for poor countries where free-access articles are much more likely to be cited. Together, findings suggest that free Internet access widens the circle of those who read and make use of scientists' investigations. 10.1126/science.1154562 IS - 5917 JF - Science TI - Open Access and Global Participation in Science VL - 323 SP - 1025 KW - library KW - medicine KW - web AU - Evans, James AU - Reimer, Jacob PY - 2009/02/20/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1154562 ER -