Do authors comply with mandates for open access?

Rates varied greatly, from around 90% for work funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and UK biomedical funder the Wellcome Trust, to 23% for work supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (see 'Mandates matter'). [...]they underline the need...

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Published in:Nature (London) 2018-10, Vol.562 (7728), p.483-486
Main Authors: Larivière, Vincent, Sugimoto, Cassidy R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bibliometrics
College professors
Compliance
Discipline
Enforcement
Funding
Funds
Gold
Humanities
Identification methods
Infrastructure
Medical research
Open access publishing
Researchers
Scholarly publishing
Social sciences
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Summary:Rates varied greatly, from around 90% for work funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and UK biomedical funder the Wellcome Trust, to 23% for work supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (see 'Mandates matter'). [...]they underline the need to establish sustainable and equitable systems as the financial burdens for science publishing shift from research libraries to authors' research funds. Future research on compliance with open-access mandates should evaluate the utility of other data sources, such as Scopus, 1findr, Kopernio and Dimensions (run by Digital Science, a firm operated by the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, which has a share in Natures publisher. Gold open access displaces those costs on to authors (who often need to allocate funds from their research budgets to cover publishing), even as libraries continue to shell out for subscription fees. ANALYSIS METHODS How we mined data on open-access compliance We first identified the funding sources of papers using the published acknowledgements (mandated by most funders).
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/d41586-018-07101-w