<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This one is very personal for me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font face="monospace, monospace">Hilton Gibson</font></b></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Stellenbosch University Library</span><br></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><font color="#0000ee"><u><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2992-208X" target="_blank">http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2992-208X</a></u></font><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Juan Pablo Alperin</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:juan@alperin.ca">juan@alperin.ca</a>></span><br>Date: 21 February 2017 at 22:18<br>Subject: [GOAL] OA in the news: another reason for immediate OA<br>To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">goal@eprints.org</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">Hello all, <div><br></div><div>Today we published a <a href="https://goo.gl/w5Y3RR" target="_blank">short blog</a> post looking at whether or not articles linked from news stories were OA or not. We found that of all the news stories published last year with "cancer" in the title (identified by <a href="http://Altmetric.com" target="_blank">Altmetric.com</a>), 60% of them were behind a paywall. That means only 40% of the research behind the news story was publicly available. </div><div><br></div><div>Of course, some of those stories were self-archived, although we only found an additional 10% (of the total) through the new service <a href="http://oadoi.org" target="_blank">oaDOI</a> (which does a BASE search). </div><div><br></div><div>We also looked at the published date of the story and compared it to the published date of the article, and found that almost 25% of the stories happen within a day of the article publication, 50% appear within two weeks, and 75% of the stories are published within the first three months of the article’s publication. </div><div><br></div><div>Lots of caveats with the data (working with data from across publishers is always messy), but my key takeaway here is that a 1 year embargo (or even a 6 month embargo, for that matter) prevents public access to all the interest in research that is generated by the news. </div><div><br></div><div>To borrow from <a href="https://pkp.sfu.ca/2017/02/20/a-public-knowledge-project-commitment-in-light-of-the-trump-presidency/" target="_blank">PKP's recent statement</a> in light of the Trump presidency, "at no time ... has it been more vital for the public and the media to have ready access to empirical findings, verifiable results, and scholarly inquiries in their efforts to redress the forces of willful ignorance and prejudice." </div><div><br></div><div>Regards, </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><div>Juan Pablo Alperin</div><div>Assistant Professor, Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing</div><div>Associate Director, Public Knowledge Project</div><div>Simon Fraser University</div></div><div><br></div></font></span></div>
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