Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > Nature has published an article today > http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/07/uk-research-funders-announce-liberated-op > en-access-policy.html > which contains a graphic on the numbers of papers published as Open and closed > access: > http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.4973.1340115026!/image/UK.jpg_gen/derivati > ves/fullsize/UK.jpg > > I would like answers to the following two questions: > * what is the source of the numbers in the graphics
The data are from Yassine Gargouri (who has used the methodology he previously used, which consists of trawling the web for openly accessible full-texts and comparing the number of those with the papers in Web of Science, which is not a perfect, but a reasonable measure of the universe¹ for UK researchers). Previously, Yassine has done this only on a global basis, but this time he has looked for papers with at least one UK author. > * is there an open electronic list of the publications (and their funders) so > that I can access them He used Google to search for the papers.
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