Open access gains momentum

Abstract

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Analytical study of open access health and medical repositories

“…The Budapest Open Access Initiative stimulated the movement which opened the path for the green and gold roads of OA. In the USA and the UK, legislators and government agencies advocated for OA to publications that resulted from government-funded research (Falk, 2004). The Public Access to Science Act passed by the 108th US Congress in 2003 was another sign of changes ahead.…”

“…The Trust supported open and unrestricted access to research findings and wanted to see the scientific research funded by the Trust become available to all people (Chesler, 2004). Gradually, many leading research associations in Germany, France, Switzerland, Norway and Hungary, as well as others throughout Europe, signed the “Berlin Declaration” calling for free access to research findings (Falk, 2004). There is a high pressure from funding agencies and international organisations, such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), to deposit the articles in repositories that can be freely available (European Science Foundation, 2012).…”

“…In August 2004, 25 Nobel Prize-winning scientists called for the US Government to make all taxpayer-funded research papers freely available. Paul Ginsparg of arXiv estimated that converting all scientific information to an OA model could save US$5bn worldwide (Falk, 2004). The Economist reported on 5 August 2004, that every year around 1.2 million articles are published in about 16,000 scientific journals.…”

Un análisis cuantitativo del acceso abierto en las revistas de Humanidades Digitales

“…Ya en 2004 Falk realizaba un estudio en el que comparaba el acceso abierto en la década de los 90 y en ese año (Falk, 2004), señalando que en 2004 más de 1200 revistas permitían publicar en abierto, si bien pagando cargos, mientras que en 1992 el número que lo permitía era tan solo de cinco. Un estudio similar, pero posterior es el de Laakso, Welling, Bukvova, Nyman, Björk & Hedlund (Laakso et al, 2011) que estudia el estado de las publicaciones en acceso abierto entre 1993 y 2009, señalando un constante aumento.…”

Kommersiell istedenfor åpen publisering – En kritikk av den norske systemet for dokumentasjon av vitenskapelige publikasjoner

“…Det vises gjerne til at store institusjoner, som US National Institute of Health (med et budsjett på 28 milliarder dollar), vurderer å forlange at resultatene av forskningen de finansierer skal publiseres i åpne kanaler. 9 I Storbritannia mener «The Science and Technology Committee of the UK House of Commons» at forskningspublikasjoner bør vaere åpent tilgjengelige på nettet og at man i statlig finansierte forskningsprosjekter bør forlange fri adgang til resultatene. 10 FN støtter open access.…”