From 1 October 2006, outputs from all Wellcome Trust-funded grants must be made freely available via PubMed Central as soon as possible, and in any event no later than six months after publication.

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Open access – improve your impact

A recent (peer-reviewed) article in PLoS Biology has found that open access (OA) articles are cited more than non-OA articles.

Gunther Eysenbach from the University of Toronto, Canada, compared citation data for papers published – either with OA or not – in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences between June and December 2004. He discovered "strong evidence that, even in a journal that is widely available in research libraries, OA articles are more immediately recognized and cited by peers than non-OA articles published in the same journal".

Eysenbach goes on to conclude that open access "is likely to benefit science by accelerating dissemination and uptake of research findings".

External links

Eysenbach G. Citation advantage of open access articles. PLoS Biol 2006;4(5):e157.