10.6084/m9.figshare.1391771.v1 Juan Pablo Alperin Juan Pablo Alperin Sophie Pouyanne Sophie Pouyanne The public impact of open access research: A survey of SciELO users figshare 2015 Latin America scielo public access Open Access Library and Information Studies Science Policy 2015-04-25 03:39:03 Poster https://figshare.com/articles/poster/The_public_impact_of_open_access_research_A_survey_of_SciELO_users/1391771 <p>Summary of study conducted between March and July, 2014 by placing a series of single-question pop-up surveys on the SciELO Brazil, Chile, and Mexico open access journal portals. 17,575 responses were collected with a 49% response rate. Key findings: ~25% of use was found to be from non-academic users, and ~50% from students. This poster presents a summary of some of the findings of this study. </p> <p>Poster presented at the ARCS Conference: Advancing Research Communication & Scholarship, Philadelphia, April 26-28, 2015. </p> <p>JPA did the research; SP designed the poster. </p> <p> </p>