My post last week about citation rates of mandated vs. self-selected Open Accessfulfills resulted in an interesting discussion thanks to some good arguments made by Stevan Harnad. One personal conclusion for me: mandates for self-archiving are not a good idea. I would very much prefer researchers to be highly motivated to self-archive thanks to a repository that both fulfills important functions and is fun to use.
This was the title of the session with <strong> <strong> Geoff Bilder </strong> </strong> , <strong> <strong> Gudmundur Thorisson </strong> </strong> and myself at the Science Online London Conference last Saturday. Geoff first introduced the ORCID initiative, including several principles. We then talked about two use cases for ORCID.
<strong> PLoS ONE </strong> today published a paper very relevant to Open Access Week (which started today): <strong> <strong> Gargouri Y, Hajjem C, Larivière V, Gingras Y, Carr L, Brody T, Harnad S </strong> </strong> . Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research. <strong> PLoS ONE </strong> . 2010;5(10):e13636+. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013636.
The ArXiv preprint archive for research articles in physics, mathematics, computer science and related disciplines was initiated by Paul Ginsparg in 1991. ArXiv enables the rapid dissemination of research articles prior to peer review, and it quickly became very successful in this.
Practically all papers in high-energy physics (> 90% since the late 1990s) are first published on the ArXiv preprint server. Several related disciplines also have a long ArXiv tradition.