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Times Higher Education - Learning to share 12 November 2009
A thoughful article on OA, its progress and implications, followed by an informative discussion from publishers, authors and librarians.
Research Trends: open access citation advantage is a myth
open access increases readership but not citations.
Online access changes citation patterns - ANALYSIS - Research Information
‘The established dogma is that freely-available scientific articles are cited more because they are read more,’ said Davis. ‘We found that openaccess publishing may reach more readers than subscription-access publishing, but there is no evidence that free
Measuring Citation Advantages of Open Accessibility by Samson C. Soong (DLib Nov/Dec/ 09)
This article describes a study, involving a set of articles published in scholarly journals by faculty members of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) that have also been deposited in the HKUST Institutional Repository. The study was
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research Will Commit 5 Million Euros to Open Access Publication
According to a news article by the SURFfoundation, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, which "funds thousands of top researchers at universities and institutes and steers the course of Dutch science by means of subsidies and research programmes," will commit five million Euros to support the open access publication of its funded research results.
Open Science at Web-Scale: Optimising Participation and Predictive Potential (JISC report, Nov. 2009)
This Report has attempted to draw together and synthesise evidence and opinion from a wide range of sources. Examples of data intensive science at extremes of scale and complexity which enable forecasting and predictive assertions, have been described tog
Open Access and Global Participation in Science -- Evans and Reimer 323 (5917): 1025 -- Science
Previous investigations into the impact of open-access journals on
subsequent citations confounded open and electronic access and failed
to track availability over time. With new data, we separated these
effects. We demonstrate that a journal receives a modest increase in
citations when it comes online freely, but the jump is larger when it
first comes online through commercial sources. This effect reverses
for poor countries where free-access articles are much more likely to
be cited. Together, findings suggest that free Internet access widens
the circle of those who read and make use of scientists'
investigations.
How big is OA share of SC (2008 study by Bjork)
We used the databases of ISI and Ulrich's as our primary sources and estimate that the total number of articles published in 2006 by 23 750 journals was approximately 1 350 000.\nUsing this number as denominator it was also possible to estimate the number of articles which are openly available on the web in primary OA journals (gold OA). This share turned out to be 4.6 % for the year 2006. In addition at least a further 3.5 % was available after an embargo period of usually one year, bringing the total share of gold OA to 8.1%\nUsing a random sample of articles, we also tried to estimate the proportion of the articles published which are available as copies deposited in e-print repositories or homepages (green OA). Based on the article title a web search engine was used to search for a freely downloadable full-text version. For 11.3 % a usable copy was found. Combining these two figures we estimate that 19.4 % of the total yearly output can be accessed freely.
Ph.D Dissertation: "Scholarly Communication Changing: The Implications of Open Access"
Worth comprehensive examination, (first? dissertation on SC and OA (from a GKEN member). Several research questions are posed (How does OA affect the visibility of research? is one of them)
Compact for OA Publishing Equity - Overview
The compact for open-access publishing equity supports equity of the business models by committing each university to "the timely establishment of durable mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication charges for articles written by its faculty and p
» Publishers cooperating with the Harvard OA policy The Occasional Pamphlet
One of the advantages of the Harvard open-access policies is that the university’s cumulation of rights allows it to negotiate directly with publishers on behalf of covered authors. Such discussions can lead to win-win agreements in which Harvard authors
Harvard’s DASH for open access « Harvard Gazette Online (Sept. 1, 2009)
Harvard took a DASH toward opening access to its scholarship this week (Aug. 31).
DASH stands for Digital Access to Scholarship. It’s an open-access repository of scholarly works administered by the University Library. So far, more than 350 members of the
OASIS
an authoritative ‘sourcebook’ on Open Access, covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it. The site highlights developments and initiatives from around the world, with links to diverse additional resources and case s
"Open Access – What are the economic benefits?" by John Houghton (June 2009)
This report was based on the findings of studies in which John Houghton had modelled the costs and benefits of Open Access in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Denmark. These studies had been undertaken in the UK by JISC, in the Netherlands by SURF and in D
NDLTD: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations — NDLTD
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissert
FREE - Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity
free audiobook "FREE" by Chris Anderson
Journals and repositories: an evolving relationship? (IngentaConnect, July 2009)
It is now widely accepted that there are two routes to open access (OA): OA repositories and OA journals. It is often assumed these are distinct alternative parallel tracks. However, it has recently become clear that there is potential for repositories an
Economic implications of alternative publishing models: Self-archiving and repositories CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI6) (17-19 June 2009)
Drawing on a recent study for the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), John Houghton will describe the approach used to explore the Economic Implications of Alternative Publishing Models and summarise the studies main findings, with an emphasis
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