Citation Advantage
Providing open access to one’s articles results in greater impact as demonstrated by a citation advantage.Currently, no institution can afford access to all journals and
articles (even within the UK many researchers only have access to 2/3 of
UK produced publications), though access is a necessary prerequisite
for an article to be cited. Open access articles have the advantage of
being accessible, and therefore more easily cited. Evidence has shown
that articles that are freely available online have a citation advantage
when compared with articles published in the same journals that are not
freely available. Articles are cited earlier and more often. Additional
research has tried to disprove these findings. A good summary of both
sides of the argument can be found here.
Antelman, K. (2004). Do Open-Access articles have a greater research impact? College and Research Libraries, 65(5), 372-382. http://eprints.rclis.org/2309/
Davis, P. (2010). Does open access lead to increased readership and
citations? A randomized controlled trial of articles published in APS
Journals. The Physiologist, 53(6). http://www.the-aps.org/publications/tphys/2010html/December/open_access.htm
Friend, F. (2007). UK access to UK research. Serials: the Journal for the Serials Community, 20(3), 231-234. http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/4842/
Hajjem, C., Harnad, S. and Gingras, Y. (2005). Ten-year
cross-disciplinary comparison of the growth of Open Access and how it
increases research citation impact. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 28(4).
http://sites.computer.org/debull/A05dec/hajjem.pdf
Swan, A. (2010). The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date. Technical Report, School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18516/
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