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Open access open to debate.
Byline: Mark Chillingworth
Open access open to debate
The open access (OA) debate continues to rumble on. Just as commentators are forever predicting the end of the line for the newspaper and the novel, the end of this debate is forever being predicted, but never seems to come. The industry must be thankful, then, that Oxford University Press (OUP) has, like all publishers, studied the effects of OA, but unlike many others it's chosen to share them.
Reading the results of the OUP study and discussing the recent changes in policy at Elsevier, it looks like OA suits certain titles and not others. And I have to admit, I agree with Elsevier's stance that there now needs to be some clarity on how we define open access and the increasing number of variant access methods surfacing.
In the study 'Determining the impact of open access publishing and users: a deep log analysis of Nucleic Acids Research', researchers discover that the NAR journal is relatively unique, with a unique community. OUP carried out research and knew that the ...
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