If enacted, the measure would require that the articles be accessible online without charge within six months of their initial publication in a scholarly journal.
More and more scholars who know nothing about OA are encountering OA articles, labelled as OA, and delighting in the fact that useful, peer-reviewed, full-text articles are accessible online free of charge.
At the moment, only about 10% of published scientific articles are accessible without restrictions.
This means that all our articles are accessible as full text for everyone, at no cost via PubMed immediately after the printed version has been published.
Although it has already been demonstrated that full text contains more information (33), only a small number of more than 233 000 HIV-related articles are accessible through PMC OA, thus, limiting the full potential of full-text TM to provide a large-scale systematic approach to information extraction from the entire literature.
All data sets supporting the results of this article are accessible in the NCBI's GEO database through GEO Series accession number GSE47182 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi acc=GSE47182).nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi acc=GSE47182
The article is accessible online here.
When you find an article in Google that costs money to view, right-click and select "Reload page via Columbia Libraries Off-Campus Proxy" to see if that article is accessible through Columbia.
The data supporting this article are accessible in the Dryad Digital Repository (doi 10.5061/dryad.83rv1).
Between January, 2007 and February, 2008, 712 articles were randomly assigned free access status upon publication from the publisher's websites (the treatment), leaving 2,533 control articles that were accessible by subscription (the control).
Most of the articles were only accessible via subscription, and in some cases an article was not accessible at all due to the journal having no online content.
