<div dir="ltr">Yes, Delayed Access is better than no access. (Toll access is better than no access too.)<div><br><div>Yes, publisher embargoes have cowed (some) authors into providing Delayed Access instead of Open Access.</div><div><br></div><div>But that does not make Delayed Access Open Access.</div><div><br></div><div>And the objective is to provide Open Access, immediately upon acceptance for publication, not Delayed Access.</div></div><div><br></div><div>That is why Green OA mandates need to be <a href="http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/370203/">optimized</a> so as to maximize deposit rate and minimize deposit latency; and that's also why the <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/RequestCopy">copy-request Button</a> needs to be implemented to provide Almost-OA, tide over research needs during publisher embargoes, and hasten the demise of all embargoes, hence delays, forcing publishers to downsize and convert to Fair-Gold.</div><div><br></div><div>(Citations are delayed whether what they cite is Open Access or Delayed Access.)</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Bo-Christer Björk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bo-christer.bjork@hanken.fi" target="_blank">bo-christer.bjork@hanken.fi</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear all,<br>
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I agree with Heather that we should take a more inclusive approach to<br>
Open Access. For most ordinary academics and non-academics all that<br>
counts is getting access to particular articles they want to read that<br>
more often than not are identified via references.<br>
<br>
The landscape is not black and white. Most of Green OA for reasons of<br>
embargoes and author behavior is delayed OA.<br>
<br>
In a study we made a couple of years ago (Delayed Open Access – an<br>
overlooked high-impact category of openly available scientific literature<br>
Mikael Laakso and Bo-Christer Björk) we estimated that of the citations<br>
(not cited articles) in Web of Knowledge in the last available year:<br>
<br>
80 % pointed to articles in closed subscription journals (of which some<br>
may be found as green copies)<br>
<br>
6 % pointed to articles in immediate OA journals<br>
<br>
14 % pointed to articles in delayed OA journals with embargo periods of<br>
max 12 months. This is due to the fact that many of the some 500 delayed<br>
OA journals that we found were high volume and impact.<br>
<br>
The figures might look a bit different today but the overall picture is<br>
the same. To me it is clear that the reading of scholarly articles that<br>
you track via citations is a very important part of the all reading of<br>
scholarly articles.<br>
<br>
Bo-Christer Björk<br>
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