Open Access to Peer-Reviewed Research through Author/Institution Self-Archiving: Maximizing Research Impact by Maximizing Online Access
J Postgrad Med 2003;49:337-342
The optimal situations for researchers are:
l Online availability of the entire full-text refereed research corpus
l Availability on every researcher's desktop, everywhere 24 hours a day
l Interlinking of all papers & citations
l Fully searchable, navigable, retrievable, impact-rankable research papers
l For free, for all, forever
All of this will come to pass. The real question is “How Soon?” And will we still be compos mentis and fit to benefit from it, or will it only be for the napster generation? Future historians, posterity, and our own still-born potential scholarly impact are already poised to chide us in hindsight.[1] What can the research community do to hasten the inevitable process of instituation of optimal conditions? Here are some recent concepts that may help.
