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The State of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles

Megan Wacha
- 01 Jan 2017 - 
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This article is published in The Idealis.The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 306 citations till now.

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Evidence of Open Access of scientific publications in Google Scholar: a large-scale analysis

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Assessing scientists for hiring, promotion, and tenure.

TL;DR: The content of this paper is hoped to serve as a basis for establishing best practices and redesigning the current approaches to assessing scientists by the many players involved in that process.
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The evaluation of scholarship in academic promotion and tenure processes: Past, present, and future

TL;DR: To determine the most useful way to change RPT, the needs and perceptions of faculty and administrators are assessed, and a better understanding of the level of influence of written RPT guidelines and policy in an often vague process that is meant to allow for flexibility in assessing individuals is gained.
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Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature.

TL;DR: For the first time, nearly all scholarly literature is available gratis to anyone with an Internet connection, suggesting the toll access business model may become unsustainable.
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Open Access Policy in the UK: From Neoliberalism to the Commons

TL;DR: In this article, the authors make a contribution to the knowledge of open access through a historical and theoretically informed account of contemporary open access policy in the UK (2010-15) by revealing the influence of neoliberal ideology on its creation and proposing a commons-based approach as an alternative.
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Meta-Research: Releasing a preprint is associated with more attention and citations for the peer-reviewed article

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