Leveraging Open Tools to Realize the Potential of Self-Archiving: A Cohort Study in Clinical Trials

IF 4.6 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Publications Pub Date : 2023-01-20 DOI:10.3390/publications11010004

Delwen L. Franzen

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Abstract

While open access (OA) is growing, many publications remain behind a paywall. This limits the impact of research and entrenches global inequalities by restricting access to knowledge to those that can afford it. Many journal policies allow researchers to make a version of their publication openly accessible through self-archiving in a repository, sometimes after an embargo period (green OA). Unpaywall and Shareyourpaper are open tools that help users find OA articles and support authors to legally self-archive their papers, respectively. This study leveraged these tools to assess the potential of green OA to increase discoverability in a cohort of clinical trial results publications from German university medical centers. Of the 1897 publications in this cohort, 46% (n = 871/1897, 95% confidence interval (CI) 44% to 48%) were neither openly accessible via a journal or a repository. Of these, 85% (n = 736/871, 95% CI 82% to 87%) had a permission to self-archive the accepted or published version in an institutional repository. Thus, most of the closed-access clinical trial results in this cohort could be made openly accessible in a repository, in line with World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations. In addition to providing further evidence of the unrealized potential of green OA, this study demonstrates the use of open tools to obtain actionable information on self-archiving at scale and empowers efforts to increase science discoverability.

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利用开放工具实现自我存档的潜力:临床试验中的队列研究

虽然开放获取(OA)正在增长，但许多出版物仍然需要付费。这限制了研究的影响，并通过限制那些有能力获得知识的人获得知识而巩固了全球不平等。许多期刊政策允许研究人员通过在存储库中自我存档的方式公开获取其出版物的一个版本，有时是在封禁期之后(绿色开放获取)。Unpaywall和Shareyourpaper都是开放工具，可以帮助用户找到OA文章，并支持作者合法地自行存档他们的论文。本研究利用这些工具来评估绿色OA的潜力，以提高德国大学医学中心发表的一系列临床试验结果的可发现性。在该队列的1897篇出版物中，46% (n = 871/1897, 95%置信区间(CI) 44% ~ 48%)既不能通过期刊或知识库公开获取。其中，85% (n = 736/871, 95% CI 82%至87%)的人有权在机构存储库中自行存档已接受或已发表的版本。因此，根据世界卫生组织(世卫组织)的建议，该队列中的大多数封闭临床试验结果可以在存储库中公开获取。除了提供绿色开放获取尚未实现的潜力的进一步证据外，本研究还展示了使用开放工具来获得大规模自归档的可操作信息，并授权努力提高科学发现能力。

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Publications Social Sciences-Library and Information Sciences

CiteScore

6.50

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1.90%

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审稿时长

11 weeks

期刊介绍： The scope of Publications includes: Theory and practice of scholarly communication Digitisation and innovations in scholarly publishing technologies Metadata, infrastructure, and linking the scholarly record Publishing policies and editorial/peer-review workflows Financial models for scholarly publishing Copyright, licensing and legal issues in publishing Research integrity and publication ethics Issues and best practices in the publication of non-traditional research outputs (e.g., data, software/code, protocols, data management plans, grant proposals, etc.) Issues in the transition to open access and open science Inclusion and participation of traditionally excluded actors Language issues in publication processes and products Traditional and alternative models of peer review Traditional and alternative means of assessment and evaluation of research and its impact, including bibliometrics and scientometrics The place of research libraries, scholarly societies, funders and others in scholarly communication.