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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Peter Murray-Rust wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Nature has published an article today<BR>
<a href="http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/07/uk-research-funders-announce-liberated-open-access-policy.html">http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/07/uk-research-funders-announce-liberated-open-access-policy.html</a><BR>
which contains a graphic on the numbers of papers published as Open and closed access:<BR>
<a href="http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.4973.1340115026!/image/UK.jpg_gen/derivatives/fullsize/UK.jpg">http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.4973.1340115026!/image/UK.jpg_gen/derivatives/fullsize/UK.jpg</a><BR>
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I would like answers to the following two questions:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><UL><LI><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>what is the source of the numbers in the graphics<BR>
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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 ‘universe’ for UK researchers).<BR>
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Previously, Yassine has done this only on a global basis, but this time he has looked for papers with at least one UK author.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>* is there an open electronic list of the publications (and their funders) so that I can access them<BR>
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He used Google to search for the papers.</SPAN></FONT>
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