{"id":2300,"date":"2016-08-17T13:27:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T17:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2016-08-17T13:54:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T17:54:54","slug":"research-impact-of-paywalled-versus-open-access-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=2300","title":{"rendered":"Research Impact of Paywalled versus Open Access Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new article has been published by 1Science discussing the reasearch impact of paywalled versus open access papers.\u00a0Chuck Thomas, Executive Director, USMAI Library Consortium, summarized the findings from the article, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Publishing in paywalled journals without green archiving is never an effective impact maximization strategy<\/li>\n<li>In total, and for all these fields, publishing in paywalled journals with no additional green archiving always yields below average citedness (the average being 1.0).<\/li>\n<li>Publishing in paywalled journals is the least impactful strategy overall, and the least impactful in 16 out of 22 fields.<\/li>\n<li>On average, open access papers produce a 50% higher research impact than strictly paywalled papers.<\/li>\n<li>In all these fields, fostering open access (without distinguishing between gold and green) is always a better research impact maximization strategy than relying on strictly paywalled papers.<\/li>\n<li>Having a green copy of a paper is the most impactful research communication strategy overall and the best strategy in 19 fields out of 22.<\/li>\n<li>Green is nearly always more effective than relying strictly on gold (20 out of 22 fields).<\/li>\n<li>Gold is the best strategy in biology and biomedical research and very close to green in clinical medicine (likely a reflection of the NIH and Wellcome Trust OA mandates).<\/li>\n<li>Gold has the least impact in six fields.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1science.com\/oanumbr.html\">here<\/a> to read the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new article has been published by 1Science discussing the reasearch impact of paywalled versus open access papers.\u00a0Chuck Thomas, Executive Director, USMAI Library Consortium, summarized the findings from the article, including: Publishing in paywalled journals without green archiving is never &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/?p=2300\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.hshsl.umaryland.edu\/hslupdates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}