Open access publishing, article downloads, and citations: randomised controlled trial

Davis, Philip M.; Lewenstein, Bruce V.; Simon, Daniel; Booth, James G.; Connolly, Mathew J L

doi:10.1136/bmj.a568

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“…The underlying hypothesis is that a freely-available article will be read more, and thus cited more, than an article which is not freely available. Other studies report no evidence of this effect [18,19,20]. Which is the situation in HEP, where an immense Open Access advantage is already provided by arXiv?…”

Section: Is There An Advantage To Publishing In Open Access Journals?mentioning

confidence: 97%

Citing and reading behaviours in high-energy physics

2009

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Contemporary scholarly discourse follows many alternative routes in addition to the three-century old tradition of publication in peer-reviewed journals. The field of HighEnergy Physics (HEP) has explored alternative communication strategies for decades, initially via the mass mailing of paper copies of preliminary manuscripts, then via the inception of the first online repositories and digital libraries.This field is uniquely placed to answer recurrent questions raised by the current trends in scholarly communication: is there an advantage for scientists to make their work available through repositories, often in preliminary form? Is there an advantage to publishing in Open Access journals? Do scientists still read journals or do they use digital repositories?The analysis of citation data demonstrates that free and immediate online dissemination of preprints creates an immense citation advantage in HEP, whereas publication in Open Access journals presents no discernible advantage. In addition, the analysis of clickstreams in the leading digital library of the field shows that HEP scientists seldom read journals, preferring preprints instead.

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Section: Is There An Advantage To Publishing In Open Access Journals?mentioning

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Citing and reading behaviours in high-energy physics

2009

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“…The Davis et al (2008) controlled study which found no citation advantage did show that OA articles had more downloads and were accessed more often than the control group. This in itself is very valuable.…”

Section: Citation Advantagementioning

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“…In a well-designed controlled trial involving the random selection of articles for OA status from a publisher's corpus, no evidence was found for an OA citation advantage (Davis et al, 2008). A later study showed that only 2 out of 11 journals studied showed positive OA citation effects (Davis, 2009).…”

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Open Access Issues and Engineering Faculty Attitudes and Practices

Mischo

Schlembach

2011

Journal of Library Administration

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ABSTRACT. The two primary means for accomplishing Open Access (OA) goals are the "author pays" or Gold model and the "self-archiving" or Green model, both of which can have variations or hybrids. There is a growing schism between proponents of the Gold and Green models. Scholar uptake on self-archiving has been very limited. At the same time, a great deal of concern has been expressed regarding the Gold model, particularly with regard to cost and the role of peer-review lite journals. With the evolving OA environment as a backdrop, the authors conducted a survey of university engineering faculty in order to better understand their OA practices and attitudes. The scholarly communication needs and activities of engineering faculty are more diverse than other scholars in that they have a broader and more varied literature, which includes journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, standards, handbook information, patents, and grey literature. The survey was comprised of 12 Likert scale questions and 3 open comment questions. The results of the survey of engineering faculty were consistent with other studies that have revealed concerns over the author pays model and a reluctance to self-archive in the university institutional repository (IR). Survey results showed that engineering faculty do not extensively publish in author pays Gold journals and had limited plans to do so in the future. In line with other studies, the survey revealed that there was a lack of familiarity with campus IRs and a very small uptake rate for depositing research output in institutional repositories.

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“…Several studies of article level usage found that open access articles have higher levels of usage than non-OA articles. Two different randomized controlled trials found OA articles had higher levels of downloads, and a greater number of addresses downloading them, than non-OA articles (Davis, 2011;Davis, Lewenstein, Simon, Booth, & Connolly, 2008). Two other studies found that usage of OA articles is higher not only initially after publication but continuing over time (Wang, Liu, Mao, & Fang, 2015;Wang, Mao, Xu, & Zhang, 2014).…”

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Measuring Cost per Use of Library-Funded Open Access Article Processing Charges: Examination and Implications of One Method

Hampson

Stregger

2017

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTION Libraries frequently support their open access (OA) fund using money from their collections budget. Interest in assessment of OA funds is arising. Cost per use is a common method to assess library collections expenditures. OA article processing charges (APCs) are a one-time cost for global, perpetual use. Article level metrics provide data on global, cumulative article level usage. This article examines a method and discusses the limitations and implications of using article level metrics to calculate cost per use for OA APCs. METHODS Using different APC models from two publishers, PLOS and BioMed Central, this article presents a cost per use formula for each model. RESULTS The formula for each model is demonstrated with available data. The examples suggest a very low cost per use for OA APCs after only three years. DISCUSSION Several limitations exist to obtaining article level data currently, including the nature of open access and accessibility of the data. OA articles’ usage levels are high and include use from altruistic access. Cost per use comparison with traditional publishing models is possible; however, comparison between different OA expenditures with very low costs per use may not be helpful. CONCLUSION Article level metrics can provide a means to measure cost per use of OA APCs. Libraries need increased access to article level usage data. They will also need to develop new benchmarks and expectations to evaluate APC payments, given higher usage levels for OA articles and considering altruistic access.

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Open access publishing, article downloads, and citations: randomised controlled trial

Cited by 331 publications

References 32 publications

Citing and reading behaviours in high-energy physics

Citing and reading behaviours in high-energy physics

Open Access Issues and Engineering Faculty Attitudes and Practices

Measuring Cost per Use of Library-Funded Open Access Article Processing Charges: Examination and Implications of One Method

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