Mandating access: assessing the NIH's public access policy.

IF 4.5 3区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS
Economic Policy Pub Date : 2020-11-17 eCollection Date: 2020-04-01 DOI:10.1093/epolic/eiaa015
Joseph Staudt
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Abstract

In April 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) implemented the Public Access Policy (PAP), which mandated that the full text of NIH-supported articles be made freely available on PubMed Central - the NIH's repository of biomedical research. This paper uses 600,000 NIH articles and a matched comparison sample to examine how the PAP impacted researcher access to the biomedical literature and publishing patterns in biomedicine. Though some estimates allow for large citation increases after the PAP, the most credible estimates suggest that the PAP had a relatively modest effect on citations, which is consistent with most researchers having widespread access to the biomedical literature prior to the PAP, leaving little room to increase access. I also find that NIH articles are more likely to be published in traditional subscription-based journals (as opposed to 'open access' journals) after the PAP. This indicates that any discrimination the PAP induced, by subscription-based journals against NIH articles, was offset by other factors - possibly the decisions of editors and submission behaviour of authors.

授权访问:评估NIH的公共访问政策。
2008年4月,美国国立卫生研究院(NIH)实施了公共获取政策(PAP),该政策要求NIH支持的文章全文在PubMed Central (NIH的生物医学研究储存库)上免费提供。本文使用60万篇NIH文章和匹配的比较样本来检查PAP如何影响研究人员获取生物医学文献和生物医学出版模式。尽管一些估计允许在PAP之后大幅增加引用,但最可信的估计表明PAP对引用的影响相对较小,这与大多数研究人员在PAP之前广泛获取生物医学文献一致,几乎没有增加引用的空间。我还发现,在PAP之后,NIH的文章更有可能发表在传统的基于订阅的期刊上(而不是“开放获取”期刊)。这表明,基于订阅的期刊对NIH文章造成的任何PAP歧视都被其他因素抵消了——可能是编辑的决定和作者的提交行为。
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期刊介绍: Economic Policy provides timely and authoritative analyses of the choices confronting policymakers. The subject matter ranges from the study of how individual markets can and should work to the broadest interactions in the world economy. Economic Policy features: Analysis of key issues as they emerge Views of top international economists Frontier thinking without technical jargon Wide-reaching coverage of worldwide policy debate
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