Gwen Franck
Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent
OpenAIRE project
@g_fra
gwen.franck@ugent.be
"First, it is known that these people use the literature where
it is openly available to them. For example, the usage
data for PubMed Central (the NIH’s large collection of
biomedical literature) show that of the 420,000 unique
users per day of the 2 million items in that database, 25%
are from universities, 17% from companies, 40% from
‘citizens’ and the rest from ‘Government and others’."
Alma Swan, Policy Guidelines for the development & promotion of Open Access, UNESCO, 2012