The Potential Impact of ‘Public Access’ Legislation on Access to Forestry Literature |
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| Authors: | Bradley Brazzeal Patrick L Carr |
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| Institution: | 1. Département d’économique, GREEN and CIRPÉE, Université Laval, Pavillon J.-A. DeSève, 1025, av. des Sciences-Humaines, Québec, Canada G1V 0A6;2. Département de sciences économiques and CIREQ, Université de Montréal, Canada;1. College of Management of Technology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Odyssea 1.19, Station 5, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland;2. EIM Business and Policy Research, The Netherlands;3. Faculty of Business Studies, Hasselt University, Belgium;4. Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands;1. University of Florida, Department of Economics, Gainesville, FL 32611-7140, USA;2. Stockholm School of Economics, Department of Economics, Box 6501, 11383 Stockholm, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | There have been increasing calls for the United States (U.S.) government’s implementation of broad public access policies mandating free online access to federally funded research. This study examines the potential impact of such a policy on peer-reviewed forestry literature. The authors analyze information about federal government authorship, federal government funding, and U.S. authorship indicated in articles published in five core forestry journals in 2006. The results of the analysis provide evidence that federal public access legislation would have a significant impact on the accessibility of forestry literature published in leading journals in the field. |
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