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  • Estimating open access Mandate effectiveness : the MELIBEA score 

    Vincent-Lamarre, Philippe; Boivin, Jade; Gargouri, Yassine; Larivière, Vincent; Harnad, Stevan (Association for information science and technology, 2015-12-23)
    MELIBEA is a directory of institutional open‐access policies for research output that uses a composite formula with eight weighted conditions to estimate the “strength” of open access (OA) mandates (registered in ROARMAP). We analyzed total Web of ...
  • Self-selected or mandated, open access increases citation impact for higher quality research 

    Gargouri, Yassine; Hajjem, Chawki; Larivière, Vincent; Gingras, Yves; Carr, Les; Brody, Tim; Harnad, Stevan (Public library of science, 2010-10-18)
    Background: Articles whose authors have supplemented subscription-based access to the publisher’s version by selfarchiving their own final draft to make it accessible free for all on the web (‘‘Open Access’’, OA) are cited significantly more than ...
  • Ten-year analysis of University of Minho Green OA self-archiving mandate 

    Gargouri, Yassine; Harnad, Stevan; Larivière, Vincent (2013)
    University of Minho adopted the first university-wide Green Open Access Man-date in Europe in 2004, requiring all research output to be self-archived in the institution’s repository. The mandate was upgraded in 2011 to designate the repository ...