[sc-announce] Before the boom: 13 percent of cancer literature is free -- Science Commons blog

Donna Wentworth dwentworth at creativecommons.org
Mon Mar 31 18:29:50 EDT 2008


Before the boom: 13 percent of cancer literature is free

March 31st, 2008<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/03/31/before-the-boom-13-percent-of-cancer-literature-is-free/>by
dwentworth

Heather Morrison, who's been
tracking<http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2006/08/dramatic-growth-of-open-access-series.html>the
growth of open access to medical literature, has posted
baseline figures<http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2008/03/cancer-literature-13-free.html>for
the percentage of literature on cancer that's freely available online
in
full text format, pre-NIH
mandate<http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/01/public-science/>
:

*Cancer*:
13% of the literature in PubMed on cancer links to Free Fulltext.
*By publication date range*:
7% - within last 30 days
10% - within the last year
17% - within the last two years
21% - within the last 10 years

Opening access is the foundation for making the medical literature useful in
the digital era, facilitating machine-assisted research using Semantic
Web<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web>technologies — something
that will become even more critical once the
mandate goes into effect and the percentage of open literature starts to
rise.

(Hat tip<http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/2008/03/how-much-of-medical-literature-is-free.html>to
Gavin Baker @ Open Access News)

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Donna Wentworth
Communications Specialist
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
dwentworth at creativecommons.org <kaitlin at creativecommons.org>
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