An open letter signed by forty-one Nobel Prize winners in support of the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) was sent to the U.S. Congress earlier this week.
An excerpt: “Passage of FRPAA will make it easier for scientists worldwide to better and more swiftly address the complex scientific challenges that we face today and expand shared knowledge across disciplines to accelerate breakthrough and spur innovation.”
“Article-level metrics” — figures documenting how many times an online article in a scholarly journal has been viewed, downloaded, cited in other articles, mentioned in blogs, or bookmarked — give a more accurate view of the impact and influence of an article than the journal impact factor, according to Richard Smith, a board member of Public Library of Science.
