PubMed Central Competes With, Undermines Journal Usage
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 17:00
in Psychology & Sociology
PubMed Central is costing biomedical journal sites readership and that effect is increasing over time. The bulk of modern biomedical studies are controlled by the government, which means taxpayer-funding, so it makes sense that the results would be available to the public, but Phillip M. Davis writing in The FASEB Journal says that PubMed draws readership away from the scientific journal even when journals themselves are providing free access to the articles. read more