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    Estimating the Potential Impacts of Open Access to Research Findings

    Economic Analysis and Policy, 2009
    Advances in information and communication technologies are disrupting traditional models of scholarly publishing, radically changing our capacity to reproduce, distribute, control, and publish information. The key question is whether there are new opportunities and new models for scholarly publishing that would better serve researchers and better communicate and disseminate research findings.
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    Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact?

    Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, USA, 2004
    Although many authors believe that their work has a greater research impact if it is freely available, studies to demonstrate that impact are few.
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    Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research

    Africa's Health in 2010 (Academy for Education Development), 2012
    Open Access (OA) articles are cited significantly more than articles in the same journal and year that have not been made OA. Some have suggested that this 'OA Advantage' may not be causal but just a self-selection bias, because authors preferentially make higher-quality articles OA.
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    The Open Access Citation Advantage: Studies and Results to date

    ePrints Soton - University of Southampton Institutional Research Repository, 2010
    This paper presents a summary of reported studies on the Open Access citation advantage. After a brief introduction to the main issues involved in carrying out such studies, the study also provides some details of the coverage, methodological approach and main conclusions of each study.
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    Towards a DFID Research Policy on Open Access

    Department for International Development, UK, 2009
    This report ‘scopes’ how DFID Research could take forward an open access policy that will lead to greater public access to the research outputs it finances. It provides a snapshot of the current situation across a wide range of situations. The report is based on a series of face to face and electronic exchanges with people involved in research access and communication.
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    Guidance Note on Open Access

    Department for International Development, UK, 2009
    DFID funded research is publicly funded and essentially constitutes a global public good. DFID recognises the immense benefits that scientific and social science knowledge can have in addressing poverty, and expects the research it funds to benefit researchers, policy makers and others globally, but in particular in developing countries.
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    The LERU Roadmap to Open Access

    League of European Research Universities, 2011
    The LERU Roadmap towards Open Access represents a conscious decision by the League of European Research Universities (LERU) to investigate new models for scholarly communication and the dissemination of research outputs emanating from LERU universities. The Roadmap aims to assist LERU members and others who wish to put in place structures, policies and practices to facilitate Open Access.
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    Open Access to Scholarly Literature in India — A Status Report (with Emphasis on Scientific Literature)

    The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, 2011
    Open access has had a great influence on science and scholarship in the developing world, and yet many developing countries, including India, have not enthusiastically adopted open access. Developing countries remain developing largely because they often do not take advantage of such opportunities. This paper discusses open access in India.
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    World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD)

    World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD) is a global forum that brings together people from across the world to discuss key issues relating to science and technology management that imp
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    Capacity building of knowledge management among research institutes: Reflections from the GDNet experience

    World Association for Sustainable Development, 2011
    GDNet builds the capacity of researchers from developing and transition countries to inform global development research and policy. In its early years, GDNet focused on information and knowledge management staff in developing country research institutes and piloted a series of knowledge management workshops in Africa.

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