ananyo writes “Search the Internet for any research article published in 2011, and you have a 50—50 chance of downloading it for free. This claim — made in a report produced for the European Commission — suggests that many more research papers are openly available online than was previously thought. Previous best estimates for the proportion of papers free online run at around 30%. Peter Suber, director of the Office for Scholarly Communication at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says the report confirms his optimism. ‘When researchers hit a paywall online, they turn to Google to search for free copies — and, increasingly, they are finding them,’ he says.”… ananyo writes “Search the Internet for any research article published in 2011, and you have a 50—50 chance of downloading it for free. This claim — made in a report produced for the European Commission — suggests that many more research papers are openly available online than was previously thought. Previous best estimates for the proportion of papers free online run at around 30%. Peter Suber, director of the Office for Scholarly Communication at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says the report confirms his optimism. ‘When researchers hit a paywall online, they turn to Google to search for free copies — and, increasingly, they are finding them,’ he says.”
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