{"id":20700,"date":"2018-02-27T00:06:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T23:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=20700"},"modified":"2018-02-27T00:06:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T23:06:43","slug":"access-to-freely-available-journal-articles-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2018\/02\/27\/access-to-freely-available-journal-articles-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Access to Freely Available Journal Articles&#8221; (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.lib.purdue.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1929&amp;context=charleston\">Access to Freely Available Journal Articles: Gold, Green, and Rogue Open Access across the Disciplines<\/a> (2016 conference presentation script\/summary, published 2017)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We randomly selected 300 articles that were indexed in Scopus and published in 2015. A hundred of them are from the arts and humanities, and a hundred of them are from the social sciences, and a hundred are from the life sciences, and all of them, again, randomly selected.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These 300 appear to have been a random mix of paywall and OA and were then searched for on Google, Google Scholar, Researchgate, and Sci-Hub. The researchers were simply looking for free public copies of the articles, wherever they could be found.<\/p>\n<p>The methodology used is slightly fuzzily explained&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We just did a title search. We didn\u2019t do anything further than the title search&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fuzzy, because a Google &#8220;full-title&#8221; known-title search &#8220;as a phrase&#8221; is not the safest way to go about such a test. Due to the way Google Search works, ideally one would want to search on the first 50 characters of the title instead of on the entirety of a long academic article-title.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Scopus is poor at indexing Open Access, only managing <a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2017\/11\/01\/open-access-journals-in-commercial-databases\/\">29.18% coverage<\/a> of the DOAJ Open Access titles even in 2017. And the Scopus spreadsheet, now sortable by OA status, indicates Scopus has <em>very<\/em> poor coverage of OA arts and humanities titles.  So 100 arts and humanities articles from Scopus is not a great starting point, even if suitably randomised.  The sample will likely skew heavily toward paywall articles.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, even with these limitations the results for public full-text free-access were somewhat interesting.  From left to right, just for the 100 Arts &amp; Humanities articles: Google Scholar, Google Search, Researchgate, and Sci-Hub (prior to its recent problems)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2018\/02\/results.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2018\/02\/results.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"428\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20701\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sci-Hub was known to have severe problems accessing things like recent Project MUSE articles, so perhaps glitches like that prevented an even higher result than 86%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access to Freely Available Journal Articles: Gold, Green, and Rogue Open Access across the Disciplines (2016 conference presentation script\/summary, published &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2018\/02\/27\/access-to-freely-available-journal-articles-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}