Achieving impact around the world
From round tables, surveys and author interviews, to personal testimonials, we've been gathering evidence from our authors to better understand what publishing an open access book, chapter, article, or data set has meant for them. Click the drop-downs to learn more about how open access is helping researchers from around the world reach readers across the globe.
I've been told by colleagues at the university that they have used it in teaching and part of the ease with which it's been incorporated into teaching is because it's open access; it's free. They don't have to impose upon the library budget to buy another book. Dr. Wallis is the author of Investigating the Body of the Victorian Asylum. I would say that the open access model provides huge benefits to the readership, in particular to the readership of Global South. The open access model certainly attracts larger citation and download counts than the traditional model. Prof. B. S. Daya Sagar is co-editor of the Handbook of Mathematical Geosciences Q: Why did you choose open access for your research? A: In Austria we have a special agreement between Springer and our university, and I did not have to pay the [open access publishing] fee. Dr. Bartocci is the co-author of First international Competition on Runtime Verification: rules, benchmarks, tools, and final results of CRV 2014 | I had numerous requests to write blog articles and those requests were facilitated by open access. Mr. West is the author of Asian Century...on a Knife-edge A wider public was reached. People love to hear that it’s free to read. It reached many more readers – you write something, you want people to read it! Dr. Andrés Sandoval-Hernández is co-editor of Teaching Tolerance in a Globalized World. Q: How has OA increased discovery of your research? A: We noticed a considerable impact in the media. The team also received a number of requests for collaboration, especially from graduate students. Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc is the co-author of Spontaneous cross-species imitation in interactions between chimpanzees and zoo visitors | As a scientist mainly funded by public money, I strongly believe that my research outcomes must be accessible to everybody free of charge. Furthermore, publishing my research in an OA journal increases significantly its visibility and therefore impact. More funding will be needed to cover the costs of OA. RCUK-funded researchers have access to a special fund from UK universities but this fund is not available for research that is not RCUK-funded. I believe that all research publications should be made OA and that a national/international fund should cover the costs or that discussion between governments and publishers should reach an agreement on increasing OA publication. However, I think that things are going in the right direction and OA is becoming more and more accepted and standard. Dr. Dominguez is the co-author of Structural basis of RNA recognition and dimerization by the STAR proteins T-STAR and Sam68 A greater spread, in particular to non-academics, is something which has been very useful for the part of our work that is of relevance for the general public. Prof. Madison is the co-author of Objectivity and realms of explanation in academic journal articles concerning sex/gender: a comparison of Gender studies and the other social sciences Q: What possibilities has OA opened up for your research? A: My paper on how climate change is increasing atmospheric turbulence, causing bumpier flights, reached a much larger audience by being open access. Prof. Williams is the author of Increased light, moderate, and severe clear-air turbulence in response to climate change |
