Estimating open access mandate effectiveness: The MELIBEA score

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2815-2828

  Vincent Lamarre, Philippe ^a,b   Boivin, Jade ^a   Gargouri, Yassine ^a   Larivière, Vincent ^c   Harnad, Stevan ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

information access; open access publications; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION ACCESS; OPEN ACCESS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PREDICTIVE POWER; RESEARCH OUTPUTS; WEB OF SCIENCE;

DEPOSITS;

COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; INTERNET; PUBLICATION; WEB OF SCIENCE;

EID: 84991218911     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23601     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Archambault, É. (2013). The tipping point: Open access comes of age. In ISSI 2013 Proceedings of 14th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference (Vol. 1, pp. 1165–1680). Vienna, Austria: ISSI. Retrieved from http://www.issi2013.org/Images/ISSI_Proceedings_Volume_II.pdf
2. Berners-Lee, T. (1989). Information management: A proposal. Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html
3. Björk, B.C., Laakso, M., Welling, P., & Paetau, P. (2014). Anatomy of green open access. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 65(2), 237–250. Retrieved from http://openaccesspublishing.org/apc8/Personal%20VersionGreenOa.pdf
4. Björk, B.C., Welling, P., Laakso, M., Majlender, P., Hedlund, T., & Guðni, G. (2010). Open access to the scientific journal literature: Situation 2009. PLoS ONE, 5(6), e11273. Retrieved from http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011273
5. BOAI (2002). Budapest open access initiative. Retrieved from http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org
6. Carr, L., & Harnad, S. (2005). Keystroke economy: A study of the time and effort involved in self-archiving. University of Southampton Working Paper. Retrieved from http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/260688/
7. Carr, L., Harnad, S., & Swan, A. (2007). A longitudinal study of the practice of self-archiving. University of Southampton Working Paper. Retrieved from http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/263906/
8. Chen, X. (2014). Open access in 2013: Reaching the 50% milestone. Serials Review, 40(1), 21–27.
9. Edgington, E., & Onghena, P. (2007). Randomization tests. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
10. ETH Zurich FAQ. (2015). Legal questions on self-archiving in ETH E-Collection. Retrieved from https://www.library.ethz.ch/en/ms/Open-Access-at-ETH-Zurich/Legal-aspects-of-open-access-publishing/Legal-questions-on-self-archiving-in-ETH-E-Collection
11. Gargouri, Y., Hajjem, C., Larivière, V., Gingras, Y., Carr, L., Brody, T., & Harnad, S. (2010). Self-selected or mandated, open access increases citation impact for higher quality research. PLoS ONE, 5(10). Retrieved from http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013636
12. Gargouri, Y., Larivière, V., Gingras, Y., & Harnad, S. (2012). Green and gold open access percentages and growth, by discipline. In É. Archambault, Y. Gingras, & V. Larivière (Eds.), Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (pp. 285–292). Montréal, Canada: Science-Metrix/OST. Retrieved from http://2012.sticonference.org/Proceedings/vol1/Gargouri_Green_285.pdf
13. Gargouri, Y., Larivière, V., & Harnad, S. (2013). Ten-year analysis of university of minho green OA self-archiving mandate. In E. Rodrigues, A. Swan, & A.A. Baptista (Eds.), Uma Década de Acesso Aberto e na UMinho no Mundo. (pp. 49–66). Minho: U Minho. Retrieved from http://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/bitstream/1822/26144/3/RepositoriUM_10anos.pdf
14. Harnad, S. (2006). Opening access by overcoming Zeno's paralysis. In N. Jacobs (Ed.), Open access: Key strategic, technical and economic aspects (pp. 73–84). Chandos: Oxford. Retrieved from http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12094/
15. Harnad, S., Brody, T., Vallieres, F., Carr, L., Hitchcock, S., Gingras, Y., … Hilf, E. (2004). The green and the gold roads to open access. Nature Web Focus. Retrieved from http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/21.html
16. Harvard University Library. (2012). Major periodical subscriptions cannot be sustained. Faculty Advisory Council Memorandum on Journal Pricing. Retrieved from http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup143448
17. Hitchcock, S. (2013). The effect of open access and downloads (“hits”) on citation impact: a bibliography of studies. Retrieved from http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
18. Khabsa, M., & Giles, C.L. (2014). The number of scholarly documents on the public web. PLoS ONE, 9(5), e93949. Retrieved from http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0093949%22%20%5Cl%20%22pone-0093949-g003
19. MELIBEA. (2015). Directory and estimator policies for open access to scientific production. Retrieved from http://www.accesoabierto.net/politicas
20. Miller, F.P., Vandome, A.F., & McBrewster, J. (2010). Serials crisis. Saarbrücken: VDM Publishing.
21. Okerson, A., & O'Donnell, J. J. (Eds.). (1995). Scholarly journals at the crossroads: A subversive proposal for electronic publishing. Association of Research Libraries, 8–9. Retrieved from http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003013520
22. Pinfield, S. (2001). How do physicists use an e-print archive? Implications for institutional e-print services. D-Lib Magazine, 7(12). Retrieved from http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december01/pinfield/12pinfield.html
23. Rentier, B., & Thirion, P. (2011, November). The Liège ORBi model: Mandatory policy without rights retention but linked to assessment processes. Berlin 9 Pre-conference Workshop. Retrieved from http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/jspui/bitstream/2268/102031/1/Rentier-WashDC-2011.pdf
24. ROAR. (2015). Registry of open access repositories. Retrieved from http://roar.eprints.org/information.html
25. ROARMAP. (2015). Registry of open access repositories mandatory archiving policies. Retrieved from http://roarmap.eprints.org/
26. Sale, A., Couture, M., Rodrigues, E., Carr, L., & Harnad, S. (2014). Open access mandates and the “fair dealing” button. In R.J. Coombe & D. Wershler (Eds.), Dynamic fair dealing: Creating Canadian culture pnline. (pp. 189–200). Toronto: Totonto University Press. Retrieved from http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18511/
27. Self-Archiving FAQ. (2015). Budapest Open Access Initiative. Retrieved from http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq/
28. SHERPA/Romeo. (2015). Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving. Retrieved from http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
29. Spezi, V., Fry, J., Creaser, C., Probets, S., & White, S. (2013). Researchers' green open access practice: A cross-disciplinary analysis. Journal of Documentation, 69(3), 334–359. Retrieved from https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/bitstream/2134/12324/3/Green_OA_practice_and_Disciplinary_differences_revised_version_for%20repository.pdf
30. Suber, P. (2008a, August). Gratis and libre open access. SPARC Open Access Newsletter 124. Retrieved from http://www.sparc.arl.org/resource/gratis-and-libre-open-access
31. Suber, P. (2008b, January). An open access mandate for the NIH. SPARC Open Access Newsletter 117. Retrieved from http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4322583
32. Suber, P. (2009, February). Open access policy options for funding agencies and universities. SPARC Open Access Newsletter 130. Retrieved from http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/02-02-09.htm
33. Swan, A. (2014, April). HEFCE announces open access policy for the next REF in the UK. LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog. Retrieved from http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/04/01/hefce-open-access-ref-gamechanger/
34. Swan, A., & Brown, S. (2005). Open access self-archiving: An author study. JISC Report.
35. Swan, A., Gargouri, Y., Hunt, M., & Harnad, S. (2015). Open access policy: Numbers, analysis, effectiveness. Pasteur4OA Workpackage 3 Report. Retrieved from http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/375854/
36. Taylor & Francis. (2014). Open access survey: examining the changing views of Taylor & Francis authors. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/opensurvey/2014
37. Thomson Reuters/ISI Web of Science. (2015). Retrieved from http://wokinfo.com
38. Wallace, J.M. (2011). PEER: Green open access-insight and evidence. Learned Publishing, 24(4), 267–277. Retrieved from http://www.peerproject.eu/fileadmin/media/ppt_about_peer/JWallace_LearnedPubl_Oct2011.pdf
39. Webometrics. (2015). Ranking web of universities. Retrieved from http://www.webometrics.info/en/Methodology
40. Xia, J., Gilchrist, S.B., Smith, N.X., Kingery, J.A., Radecki, J.R., Wilhelm, M.L., & Mahn, A.J. (2012). A review of open access self-archiving mandate policies. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 12(1), 85–102. Retrieved from http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/portal_pre_print/archive/articles/12.1xia.pdf