{"id":17,"date":"2024-04-04T04:36:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T01:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/andmehaldus\/open-access-publications\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:36:03","slug":"open-access-publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/andmehaldus\/open-access-publications\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Open Access to publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In most general terms, Open Access means that research articles are accessible on the Internet to everyone free of charge.<br>\nA more specific definition also stresses that besides reading the articles free of charge, the full Open Access also allows text mining, i.e., the articles are provided with relevant unambiguous licences.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus, Open Access refers to research articles which are accessible on the Internet free of charge and which are provided with a licence allowing text mining.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The requirement for Open Access was a pioneering idea in the world of Open Science. It was felt that research results, published with taxpayers\u2019 money, should be accessible to all and people should not pay the second time to be able to read them.\u00a0Currently, taxpayers commission research from researchers (grant funding) and then have to pay for reading the results of those research (subscription to research journals). In many countries around the world, it is impossible to subscribe to scientific journals due to lack of money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/p><div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9 mb-3\"><div class=\"video-placeholder-wrapper video-placeholder-wrapper--16x9\">\n\t\t\t    <div class=\"video-placeholder d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center\">\n\t\t\t        <div class=\"overlay text-white p-2 w-100 text-center d-block justify-content-center align-items-center\">\n\t\t\t            <div>Kolmandate osapoolte sisu n\u00e4gemiseks palun n\u00f5ustu k\u00fcpsistega.<\/div>\n\t\t\t            <button class=\"btn btn-secondary btn-sm mt-1 consent-change\">Muuda n\u00f5usolekut<\/button>\n\t\t\t        <\/div>\n\t\t\t    <\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Open Access movement was started in Budapest in 2002; it is today known as the <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org\/read\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org\/read\">Budapest Open Access Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This document defines Open Access as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;\"><em>By \u201copen access\u201d we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The document set the objective that peer-reviewed articles should be accessible in two ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">self-archiving in a repository<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">publishing in an Open Access journal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Providing open access to scientific articles is fair and supports researchers worldwide in solving global problems. The example below illustrates the fact that many scientific institutes do not have access to modern results in ophthalmology because they do not have the money to subscribe to scientific journals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1209\" height=\"756\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-106\" title=\"oa_full_text.png\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/oa_full_text.png\" alt=\"Worldwide inequality\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/oa_full_text.png 1209w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/oa_full_text-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/oa_full_text-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/oa_full_text-768x480.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1209px) 100vw, 1209px\">Boudry C, et al.,\u00a02019.\u00a0Worldwide inequality in access to full text scientific articles: the example of ophthalmology.\u00a0PeerJ\u00a07:e7850\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7717\/peerj.7850\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7717\/peerj.7850<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three paths of Open Access<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three main paths can be distinguished in Open Access publishing:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Green<\/span><\/strong> Open Access or self-archiving: the author archives the article, which has been published in a research journal, in some disciplinary or institutional repository, thus making it accessible to all. The author does not pay any publishing fee, but the journal may require an embargo period, i.e., the article may not be freely accessible right after its publishing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong>Gold<\/strong><\/span> Open Access: the article is published in a journal for a fee (APC \u2013 Article Processing Charge) and is immediately made accessible to readers. Journals with such business model consider themselves Open Access journals and they must be registered at the portal Directory of Open Access Journals (<a href=\"https:\/\/doaj.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DOAJ<\/a>). Publishing costs should be covered by grants, applied for at specialised academic associations or some other funders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff8c00;\"><strong>Hybrid<\/strong><\/span> Open Access: immediate open access to articles in subscription journals. To get it, the researcher has to pay the APC. From the researcher\u2019s point of view, this is the most disadvantageous business model, since the subscription for a journal has to be paid anyway (subscribed and paid for by the library, following the researchers\u2019 recommendations), but the researchers have to pay the additional publication fee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The article processing charge is quite large, in average about 2000-3000 euros per article. For example, see the <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.springernature.com\/gp\/open-research\/journals-books\/journals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.springernature.com\/gp\/open-research\/journals-books\/journals\">APC of the journal Nature.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"637\" height=\"477\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-100\" title=\"oa_publishing.png\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/oa_publishing.png\" alt=\"oa_publishing.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/oa_publishing.png 637w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/oa_publishing-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wolfie.library.stonybrook.edu\/members\/dachase\/buddyblog\/my-posts\/13176\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Resource<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When thinking about Open Access publishing, the authors should check the database\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk\/\">Jisc Open Policy Finder,<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This database contains information about more than 22 000 peer-reviewed journals, about their Open Access policies, possibilities for self-archiving, licencing conditions, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the landscape of Open Access journals is exceptionally varied and each day brings forward new titles, it is essential to avoid publishing in predatory journals. Here, the web page\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/thinkchecksubmit.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Think.Check.Submit<\/a>, which is backed by well-acknowledged organisations, is the author\u2019s best tool and helper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 624px; height: 133px;\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/thinkchecksubmit.png\" alt=\"thinkcheck\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/p><div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9 mb-3\"><div class=\"video-placeholder-wrapper video-placeholder-wrapper--16x9\">\n\t\t\t    <div class=\"video-placeholder d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center\">\n\t\t\t        <div class=\"overlay text-white p-2 w-100 text-center d-block justify-content-center align-items-center\">\n\t\t\t            <div>Kolmandate osapoolte sisu n\u00e4gemiseks palun n\u00f5ustu k\u00fcpsistega.<\/div>\n\t\t\t            <button class=\"btn btn-secondary btn-sm mt-1 consent-change\">Muuda n\u00f5usolekut<\/button>\n\t\t\t        <\/div>\n\t\t\t    <\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authors can also find help on the web page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.authoraid.info\/en\/news\/details\/1310\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AuthorAid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"background-color: #ff8c00;\">Additional reading<\/span><\/strong>: Shen, C. and Shah, L.,\u00a02023. Predatory publishing practices: what researchers should know before submitting their manuscript. Insights: the UKSG journal, 36(1), p.19. DOI:\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1629\/uksg.631\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1629\/uksg.631<\/a><br>\nThe exploitation of artificial intelligence capabilities has brought \u2018paper mills\u2019 to the market, which sell pre-written articles with falsified data to researchers. The accompanying article discusses the detection of such papers:<br>\nMelchor, S. (2026). Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud. Nature, 650(8103), 1066\u20131067.\u00a0<a id=\"anchor-dd8d0a3d-1867-9ac2-4408-98a955396f47\" title=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-026-00569-x\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-026-00569-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-026-00569-x<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to the types of Open Access mentioned above, there is the concept of <span style=\"color: #a52a2a;\"><strong>Bronze<\/strong><\/span> Open Access: the article is made OA by the publisher, but it is not licenced, meaning that it can be freely read, but text mining is not allowed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Researchers are probably most interested in the statistics about how often are open access articles cited in comparison with articles published in subscription journals.<br>\nSeveral surveys have been carried out to find an answer to this question; here are the results concerning the following OA article:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Piwowar H, Priem J, Larivi\u00e8re V, Alperin JP, Matthias L, Norlander B, Farley A, West J, Haustein S.\u00a0(2018)\u00a0The state of OA: a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles.\u00a0<em>PeerJ<\/em>\u00a06:e4375\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7717\/peerj.4375\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7717\/peerj.4375<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 393px; height: 334px;\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/tsiteeringud.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is interesting to compare the OA types used by larger and better known publishers and their proportions:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 455px; height: 319px;\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/kirjastused.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The subject areas where researchers publish OA articles:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 455px; height: 319px;\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/erialad.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Journal of biomedicine, showing the publisher\u2019s point of view:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/p><div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9 mb-3\"><div class=\"video-placeholder-wrapper video-placeholder-wrapper--16x9\">\n\t\t\t    <div class=\"video-placeholder d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center\">\n\t\t\t        <div class=\"overlay text-white p-2 w-100 text-center d-block justify-content-center align-items-center\">\n\t\t\t            <div>Kolmandate osapoolte sisu n\u00e4gemiseks palun n\u00f5ustu k\u00fcpsistega.<\/div>\n\t\t\t            <button class=\"btn btn-secondary btn-sm mt-1 consent-change\">Muuda n\u00f5usolekut<\/button>\n\t\t\t        <\/div>\n\t\t\t    <\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Preprindid<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is still another legal possibility for making your article accessible via Open Access and at the same time, to publish it in a journal of high impact factor \u2013 this is archiving it in an archive of preprints.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sherpa_ROMEO defines preprint as a draft of an article, its first version, which has not yet been submitted for reviewing to a journal; the notion of preprint also includes conference papers and reports.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For example, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/authors\/journal-authors\/policies-and-ethics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elsevier web page<\/a> clearly states that publishing preprints before publishing the actual article is allowed:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 40px;\"><em>Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication: An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication.\u00a0<strong>Elsevier does not view the following uses of a work as prior publication: publication in the form of an abstract; publication as an academic thesis; publication as an electronic preprint.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The policies of many other academic publishers regarding preprints can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_academic_journals_by_preprint_policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia:<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Publishing your article as a preprint can be useful for several reasons:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Open Access articles receive more citations, because they are accessible to all. When publishing the same article in an academic journal, the publisher may set an embargo period and in this case, other researchers can use it only after six months.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Publishing of a preprint is free of charge \u2013 there is no APC.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Preprint can immediately receive a DOI and a time stamp, which are essential in ensuring its findability and citability and support the author in academic competition.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other researchers may notice some mistakes or shortcomings, which should be corrected or explained before submitting the text to a journal.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conference papers will be searchable.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Preprints are indexed by Google Scholar and Altmetrics.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For example, the Wellcome Trust, which funds medical research, revealed its new policy in November 2018, stating that in such cases where research results could bring considerable benefit to public health, the results have to be immediately published as a preprint.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Publishing of preprints is subject to all norms of research ethics and customary requirements for research articles. Generally, an already published preprint cannot be extracted from the archive.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"\" href=\"2102.09066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"\/andmehaldus\/arXiv:2102.09066\">A preprint in arXive<\/a>\u00a0<strong>Is preprint the future of science? A thirty year journey of online preprint services (2021) <\/strong>states that\u00a0number of preprints has exponentially increased 63 times in 30 years, although it only accounts for 4% of research articles. Second, we quantify the benefits that preprints bring to authors: preprints reach an audience 14 months earlier on average and associate with five times more citations compared with a non-preprint counterpart. Last, to address the quality concern of preprints, we discover that 41% of preprints are ultimately published at a peer-reviewed destination, and the published venues are as influential as papers without a preprint version.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some preprint archives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/\">arXiv<\/a>: physics, mathematics, computer science, statistics, quantitative biology (1,5 mill.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/\">bioRxiv<\/a>: biology (30 thousand)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxivinfo.org\/\">MarXiv<\/a>: marine biology and marine climate<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/psyarxiv.com\/\">psyArXiv<\/a>: psychology, psychiatry, neurosciences<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/socopen.org\/\">SocArXiv<\/a>: social sciences<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.preprints.org\/\">preprints.org<\/a>: multidisciplinary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/preprints\/discover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Science Framework<\/a> has a <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/preprints\/discover\">preprint portal<\/a>, allowing complex search and showing the existing subject archives of preprints.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1062\" height=\"401\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-109\" title=\"preportal.png\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/preportal.png\" alt=\"preprint portal\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/preportal.png 1062w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/preportal-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/preportal-1024x387.png 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/preportal-768x290.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1062px) 100vw, 1062px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>In case one has a practical need to publish a preprint, you can find the published guidelines:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kristina Hettne, Ron Aardening, Dirk van Gorp, Chantal Hukkelhoven, Nicole Loorbach, Jeroen Sondervan, &amp; Astrid van Wesenbeeck. (2021). <strong>A Practical Guide to Preprints: Accelerating Scholarly Communication <\/strong>(1.0). Zenodo. <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.5600535\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.5600535\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.5600535<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ASBMB published an opinion\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asbmb.org\/asbmb-today\/opinions\/092222\/preprints-better-for-career-than-pubs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is better for your career than a publication? A preprint<\/a>.\u00a0and a graph is added, describing the increase of preprints in last years:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"913\" height=\"334\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-108\" title=\"preprindid.png\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/preprindid.png\" alt=\"preprindid\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/preprindid.png 913w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/preprindid-300x110.png 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/preprindid-768x281.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 913px) 100vw, 913px\"><\/p>\n<p>In parallel with the increasing number of published preprints, there is a discussion underway about peer reviev of preprints that is supposed to be more quick, collegial and transparent than traditional peer review.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1107\" height=\"723\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-111\" title=\"preprindid_eelrets.png\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/preprindid_eelrets.png\" alt=\"preprindid_eelrets\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/preprindid_eelrets.png 1107w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/preprindid_eelrets-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/preprindid_eelrets-1024x669.png 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/preprindid_eelrets-768x502.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1107px) 100vw, 1107px\"><\/p>\n<p>Resource:\u00a0Avissar-Whiting M, Belliard F, Bertozzi SM, Brand A, Brown K, Cl\u00e9ment-Stoneham G, et al. (2024) Recommendations for accelerating open preprint peer review to improve the culture of science. PLoS Biol 22(2): e3002502.\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pbio.3002502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pbio.3002502<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a study, published as a preprint, that examines the citation impact of articles: Colavizza, G., Cadwallader, L., LaFlamme, M., Dozot, G., Lecorney, S., Rappo, D., &amp; Hrynaszkiewicz, I. (2024). An analysis of the effects of sharing research data, code, and preprints on citations (Version 2). arXiv. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.48550\/ARXIV.2404.16171\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.48550\/ARXIV.2404.16171<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This study found that publishing articles early as preprints (for example, on arXiv) correlates with an average 20.2% increase in citations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"background-color: #ffa07a;\">Additional reading:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature-index\/news\/tips-how-to-most-successful-preprint-research-science-submission-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature-index\/news\/tips-how-to-most-successful-preprint-research-science-submission-study\">10 tips for submitting a successful preprint<\/a><br>\n<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/673665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The effect of bioRxiv preprints on citations and altmetrics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a\u00a0study that aims to provide a global picture of OA adoption by countries, using two indicators: publications in OA and references made to articles in OA. Weighted z-score and normalized map of the number of OA publications by country. Brown indicates that a country is above the world average, green indicates it is below the world average.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1293\" height=\"712\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-110\" title=\"kaart.png\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/kaart.png\" alt=\"OA kaart\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/kaart.png 1293w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/kaart-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/kaart-1024x564.png 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/301\/kaart-768x423.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1293px) 100vw, 1293px\"><\/p>\n<p>Simard M-A, Ghiasi G, Mongeon P, Larivi\u00e8re V (2022) <strong>National differences in dissemination and use of open access literature<\/strong>. PLoS ONE 17(8): e0272730. <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0272730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0272730\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0272730<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In most general terms, Open Access means that research articles are accessible on the Internet to everyone free of charge. 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