Global open access slowly growing, study finds

Global open access slowly growing, study finds - Yojana Sharma, 8 July 2010, SciDev Net

One in five scientific papers is now available freely on the internet, the first global study of research papers across all disciplines has found.

Researchers looked at global data for research papers published in 2008: almost nine per cent were freely available on publishers' sites ('gold' access) and another 12 per cent on authors' or departmental websites ('green' access).