August 1, 2008
Free Access to Science Papers Found Not to Increase Citations
For years, advocates of open access to research literature have claimed that making a paper freely available online will increase the number of times it is cited by other articles. But the data show otherwise, according to the first study that randomly assigned papers to either free or subscription access.
The study appeared online Thursday in BMJ, formerly known as the British Medical Journal, and
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