26 augustus 2006
OA advantage evidence is piling up
It was through Walt at Random that I was alerted on the new issue of JEP. My old time favourite journal all because of the classic article by Bergman (2001) on the Deep Web.
Although, I barely had a chance to read it all. There was one pranging article title (Henneken et al. 2006), which is a must read for academic librarians. It adds to the growing pile of evidence that there is a clear citation advantage of OA articles. The previous articles of note on this subject were Hajjem (2005) and Eysenbach (2006).
I think there is another trick to get noted, downloaded, read and cited, to pass on to scientists as well. Blog about it! However the evidence for the latter is still lacking.
We only have to convince the scientists now to make sure their article will be available as Open Access articles.
Those days of "Publish or perish", have long time gone.
References
Bergman, K.T. (2001). The deep web : surfacing hidden value. The Journal of Electronic Publishing 7(1). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/bergman.html.
Eysenbach, G. (2006). Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles. PLoS Biology 4(5): e157. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157 .
Hajjem, C., S. Harnad & Y. Gingras (2005). Ten-year cross-disciplinary comparison of the growth of open access and how it increases research citation impact. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 28(4): 39-47. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11688/.
Henneken, E.A., M.J. Kurtz, G. Eichhorn, A. Accomazzi, C. Grant, D. Thompson & S.S. Murray (2006). Effect of E-printing on Citation Rates in Astronomy and Physics. The Journal of Electronic Publishing 9(2). http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0009.202.
Technorati tags: open access; citations;
Although, I barely had a chance to read it all. There was one pranging article title (Henneken et al. 2006), which is a must read for academic librarians. It adds to the growing pile of evidence that there is a clear citation advantage of OA articles. The previous articles of note on this subject were Hajjem (2005) and Eysenbach (2006).
I think there is another trick to get noted, downloaded, read and cited, to pass on to scientists as well. Blog about it! However the evidence for the latter is still lacking.
We only have to convince the scientists now to make sure their article will be available as Open Access articles.
Those days of "Publish or perish", have long time gone.
References
Bergman, K.T. (2001). The deep web : surfacing hidden value. The Journal of Electronic Publishing 7(1). http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/bergman.html.
Eysenbach, G. (2006). Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles. PLoS Biology 4(5): e157. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040157 .
Hajjem, C., S. Harnad & Y. Gingras (2005). Ten-year cross-disciplinary comparison of the growth of open access and how it increases research citation impact. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 28(4): 39-47. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/11688/.
Henneken, E.A., M.J. Kurtz, G. Eichhorn, A. Accomazzi, C. Grant, D. Thompson & S.S. Murray (2006). Effect of E-printing on Citation Rates in Astronomy and Physics. The Journal of Electronic Publishing 9(2). http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3336451.0009.202.
Technorati tags: open access; citations;
