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Cameron Neylon
I love this statistic 40% of unique readers at PubMedCentral are 'general public'. Real evidence of demand for OA: Heather Joseph at #oai7
June 23, 2011
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joergkurtwegner, Dan Hagon, Alex Holcombe and 8 other people liked this
how did they know people were "general public" and not coming from hospitals or small doctors practices? I see that they know not coming from .edus.
- Christina Pikas
I do 90% of my research at home.
- Andrew Lang
Christina, Andrew++ (good points!)
- Egon Willighagen
Key point is that 25% where recognizably from research institutions and 40% from (I think) consumer web supply ip ranges. Unless researchers on average do twice as much of their retrieval at home I think that's pretty compelling evidence of some demand. Exactly what the demand is remains an open question of course. But it would be good to have better data...
- Cameron Neylon
"But it would be good to have better data..." Absolutely !! But where to get it from - PMC/NCBI ??
- Graham Steel
Aha - just spotted http://twitter.com/#!... Thanks for following this up, Cameron :)
- Graham Steel
Cameron, actually... I think a good deal of access I do from outside desk hours... could not say the ratio, but 50/50 does not sounds unreasonable to me... reason: during office hours I have meetings, and have less time to keep up with literature. That phenomenon does not sound unreasonable to me either.
- Egon Willighagen