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" Poor Access for African Researchers to African Emergency Care Publications: "
Bruijns, Stevan R.; Maesela, Mmapeladi; Sinha, Suniti; Banner, Megan
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913080
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LA7bz9638t
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Poor Access for African Researchers to African Emergency Care Publications:. A Cross-sectional Study [Article]\ Bruijns, Stevan R.; Maesela, Mmapeladi; Sinha, Suniti; Banner, Megan
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2017
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UC Irvine
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Introduction: Based on relative population size and burden of disease, emergency care publicationoutputs from low- and middle-income regions are disproportionately lower than those of high-incomeregions. Ironically, outputs from regions with higher publication rates are often less relevant in the Africancontext. As a result, the dissemination of and access to local research is essential to local researchers,but the cost of this access (actual and cost-wise) remains unknown. The aim of this study was to describeaccess to African emergency care publications in terms of publisher-based access (open access orsubscription) and alternate access (self-archived or author provided), as well as the cost of access.Methods: We conducted a retrospective, cross-sectional study using all emergency medicinepublications included in Scopus between 2011 and 2015. A sequential search strategy describedaccess to each article, and we calculated mean article charges against the purchasing power parityindex (used to describe out-of-pocket expense).Results: We included 666 publications from 49 journals, of which 395 (59.3%) were open access. Forsubscription-based articles, 106 (39.1%) were self-archived, 60 (22.1%) were author-provided, and105 (38.8%) were inaccessible. Mean article access cost was
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