Open access papers ‘gain more traffic and citations’

For those interested, the report can be found here: http://www.nature.com/press_releases/ncomms-report2014.pdf and the data is on Figshare here: http://figshare.com/authors/Nature_Communications/598818 Amy Bourke Nature Publishing Group/Palgrave Macmillan

NO NEED TO PAY FOR OPEN ACCESS TO INCREASE TRAFFIC AND CITATIONS Same old story, year in, year out. We've known for over a decade that Open Access (OA) increases downloads and citations: http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html We've also known that there's no need to pay to publish in OA journals ("Gold OA") for those increased downloads and citations. Researchers can publish in any journal at all and deposit their final draft in their institutional OA Repository as soon as it is accepted for publication (“Green OA”) — as now required by HEFCE/REF: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/whatwedo/rsrch/rinfrastruct/oa/faq/ Gargouri, Y., Hajjem, C., Lariviere, V., Gingras, Y., Brody, T., Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2010) Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research. PLOS ONE 5 (10) e13636 http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18493/ Houghton, J. & Swan, A. (2013) Planting the Green Seeds for a Golden Harvest: Comments and Clarifications on "Going for Gold". D-Lib Magazine 19 (1/2) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january13/houghton/01houghton.html