An often-cited reason authors make their articles openly accessible is to maximize the impact of their research. OA article is more likely to be used and cited than one published commercially. Research funding agencies and universities want to ensure that the research they fund and support in various ways has the greatest possible research impact (citation impact). In May 2005, 16 major Dutch universities cooperatively launched DAREnet, the digital Academic Repositories, making over 47,000 research papers available online. By the 2009, the repository holds in excess of 69,000 articles. In April 2006 European Commission recommended that research funding agencies should establish a European policy mandating published article arising from EC funded research to be available after a given time period in OA archives. Libraries and librarians are also among the most vocal and active OA advocates. Many library associations have either signed major OA declarations or created their own (Irivwieri, 2009).
Irivwieri, JW (2009). Research into open access science publishing. Library Hi-Tech News 3 (4), pp 16-18.
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