Editing Open access (section)

==== Readership ====
OA articles are generally viewed online and downloaded more often than paywalled articles and that readership continues for longer.<ref name=":10"/><ref name=":9" /> Readership is especially higher in demographics that typically lack access to subscription journals (in addition to the general population, this includes many medical practitioners, patient groups, policymakers, non-profit sector workers, industry researchers, and independent researchers).<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last=ElSabry |first=ElHassan |date=1 August 2017 |title=Who needs access to research? Exploring the societal impact of open access |url=http://journals.openedition.org/rfsic/3271 |url-status=live |journal=Revue française des sciences de l'information et de la communication |language=en |issue=11 |doi=10.4000/rfsic.3271 |issn=2263-0856 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831011404/https://journals.openedition.org/rfsic/3271 |archive-date=31 August 2020 |access-date=3 January 2020 |doi-access=free}}</ref> OA articles are more read on publication management programs such as Mendeley.<ref name=":6">{{Cite journal |last=Adie |first=Euan |date=24 October 2014 |title=Attention! A study of open access vs non-open access articles |url=https://figshare.com/articles/Attention_A_study_of_open_access_vs_non_open_access_articles/1213690 |url-status=live |journal=Figshare |language=en |doi=10.6084/m9.figshare.1213690.v1 |s2cid=155854134 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103050320/https://figshare.com/articles/Attention_A_study_of_open_access_vs_non_open_access_articles/1213690 |archive-date=3 January 2020 |access-date=3 January 2020}}</ref> Open access practices can reduce publication delays, an obstacle which led some research fields such as high-energy physics to adopt widespread preprint access.<ref>{{Cite arXiv |eprint=0906.5418 |class=cs.DL |first1=Anne |last1=Gentil-Beccot |first2=Salvatore |last2=Mele |title=Citing and Reading Behaviours in High-Energy Physics. How a Community Stopped Worrying about Journals and Learned to Love Repositories |last3=Brooks |first3=Travis |year=2009}}</ref>