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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">You may have seen our recent report on open access and other contributions by Science-Metrix to the Science and Engineering Indicators (<a href="http://science-metrix.com/en/news#/en/news/the-national-science-foundation-releases-the-science-and-engineering-indicators-2018">http://science-metrix.com/en/news#/en/news/the-national-science-foundation-releases-the-science-and-engineering-indicators-2018</a>).
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Science-Metrix’ report on open access is available here:
<a href="http://www.science-metrix.com/en/publications/reports#/en/oa-report">http://www.science-metrix.com/en/publications/reports#/en/oa-report</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">When we produced the report, we had papers from ResearchGate in the oaFindr dataset that we used to produce the data for the NSF. In late December, we decided to remove academic social networks (ASNs)
from our dataset (namely ResearchGate papers, as academia.edu could not be harvested and served in a useable manner).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Reasons for removing these articles from the OA dataset include 1) a highly divided librarian/policy/measurement community on whether these should be included in a dataset on “OA,” with 1science
and Science-Metrix ending up being caught between a rock and a hard place; 2) too much rogue OA (or Robin Hood OA depending on how you see it); 3) ResearchGate shrinking hyper fast in the recent months making it difficult for 1science to maintain a coherent
index; and 4) neither ResearchGate nor Academia.edu being interested in working with us despite repeated calls for this.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">We are keeping an eye on ASNs and may include some or all of them again in our index and analytics on OA in the future. We hope that once things settle down and once it is clear ASNs store mostly
copyright-abiding articles, journal publishers will start working with them, allowing them to be a venue for self-archiving. Speaking on my own behalf, and not that of 1science or Science-Metrix, I strongly feel academic social networks are an important part
of the solution to open access, and decidedly the more modern way of sharing articles.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The effect of this removal can be seen in the figure immediately below, which suggests that ResearchGate did not have such a big effect on the recent front, or on quite old papers; it was making
“intermediately” old papers available to a larger number of users. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><img border="0" width="604" height="274" style="width:6.2916in;height:2.8511in" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image007.png@01D3942E.B42E5C60" alt="cid:image002.png@01D39424.80C6EBD0"></span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Considering the 1findr database as the measuring container, and the oaFindr technology as developed by 1science, the proportion of freely downloadable paper has dropped by 10 percentage points, that
is, from 53% to 43%, by excluding ResearchGate from the index. Considering that oaFindr recall is between 85% and 90%, the percentage of papers available for free download, two years after publication is close to 50% when retrieving papers from heterogeneous,
mostly copyright-abiding sources on the public internet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I would like to learn about your opinion on the role of academic social networks in open access, especially in the “post-cleanup” environment that will follow the current removal of copyright-protected
papers from ResearchGate. The following questions are particularly important: <o:p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Could/should ASNs be part of the OA solution?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Provided ASNs become harvestable and provide non-obfuscated, more permanent hyperlinks to articles, could they provide an alternative to institutional
repositories?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Considering that many publishers explicitly or implicitly forbid self-archiving on ASNs, should the community pressure journal publishers to
allow more self-archiving to be done on ASNs?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Éric<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="FR-CA" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR-CA">Eric Archambault, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="color:#1F3864;mso-fareast-language:FR-CA">CEO</span><span lang="FR-CA" style="mso-fareast-language:FR-CA">
<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>| <span style="color:#1F497D">Chef de la direction<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR-CA">1335, Mont-Royal E<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR-CA">Montréal QC Canada H2J 1Y6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR-CA">T. 1.514.495.6505 x.111<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR-CA">C. 1.514.518.0823<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:eric.archambault@science-metrix.com"><span lang="FR-CA" style="color:#0096FA;mso-fareast-language:FR-CA">eric.archambault@science-metrix.com</span></a><span lang="FR-CA" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.science-metrix.com/"><span lang="FR-CA" style="color:#0096FA;mso-fareast-language:FR-CA">science-metrix.com</span></a><span style="mso-fareast-language:FR-CA">
<span lang="FR-CA" style="color:#1F497D"> </span><span lang="FR-CA">& </span></span><a href="http://www.science-metrix.com/"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.science-metrix.com" claiming to be</b></font> <span lang="FR-CA" style="color:#0096FA;mso-fareast-language:FR-CA">1science.com</span></a><span lang="FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA"><img border="0" width="114" height="31" style="width:1.1904in;height:.3214in" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image008.png@01D3942E.B42E5C60" alt="cid:image004.png@01D39424.80C6EBD0"></span><span lang="FR-CA"> <img border="0" width="208" height="26" style="width:2.1666in;height:.2678in" id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image009.png@01D3942E.B42E5C60" alt="cid:image010.png@01D39424.80C6EBD0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> osi2016-25@googlegroups.com [mailto:osi2016-25@googlegroups.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Toby.GREEN@oecd.org<br>
<b>Sent:</b> January 21, 2018 12:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> bryan.alexander@gmail.com<br>
<b>Cc:</b> wagner.911@osu.edu; ghampson@nationalscience.org; osi2016-25@googlegroups.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Report on measuring open access - of broad interest<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sadly, this chart from the report sums up the situation for me - progress has stalled (and this is why SciHub is doing so well). As I argued in a paper published last year (<a href="https://goo.gl/5CkawM">https://goo.gl/5CkawM</a>), new
thinking beyond green and gold is needed if we’re to get all papers accessible to everyone without embargoes. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Toby Green <o:p></o:p></p>
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