[GOAL] Re: Open Access for Science in UK - request for sources

[Alma Swan]

Peter Murray-Rust wrote:

> Nature has published an article today
> http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/07/uk-research-funders-announce-liberated-op
> en-access-policy.html
> which contains a graphic on the numbers of papers published as Open and closed
> access:
> http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.4973.1340115026!/image/UK.jpg_gen/derivati
> ves/fullsize/UK.jpg
> 
> I would like answers to the following two questions:
> * what is the source of the numbers in the graphics

The data are from Yassine Gargouri (who has used the methodology he
previously used, which consists of trawling the web for openly accessible
full-texts and comparing the number of those with the papers in Web of
Science, which is not a perfect, but a reasonable measure of the Œuniverse¹
for UK researchers).

Previously, Yassine has done this only on a global basis, but this time he
has looked for papers with at least one UK author.

> * is there an open electronic list of the publications (and their funders) so
> that I can access them

He used Google to search for the papers.
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