Developing indicators on Open Access by combining evidence from diverse data sources
Authors : Thed van Leeuwen, Ingeborg Meijer, Alfredo Yegros-Yegros, Rodrigo Costas In the last couple of years, the role of Open Access (OA) publishing has beco...
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Gathering the Needles: Evaluating the Impact of Gold Open Access Content With Traditional Subscription Journals
Authors : Alison Boba, Jill Emery Utilizing the Project COUNTER Release 4 JR1-GOA report, two librarians explore these data in comparison to journal package sub...
Harvesting the Academic Landscape: Streamlining the Ingestion of Professional Scholarship Metadata into the Institutional Repository
Authors : Jonathan Bull, Teresa Auch Schultz INTRODUCTION Although librarians initially hoped institutional repositories (IRs) would grow through researcher sel...
Opening Academic Publishing – Development and application of systematic evaluation criteria
Authors : Anna Björk, Juho-Matti Paavola, Teemu Ropponen, Mikael Laakso, Leo Lahti This report summarizes the development of a standardized scorecard for evalua...
Utilisation of open access institutional repositories in Zimbabwe’s public universities
Author : Mass Masona Tapfuma Despite the establishment of institutional repositories (IRS) in Zimbabwe’s public universities, content for these repositories rem...
Open access availability of scientific publications
Author : Science-Metrix Inc. This report details population-level measurements of the open access (OA) availability of publications indexed in two bibliometric ...
Open access policies of high impact medical journals: a cross-sectional study
Authors : Tim Ellison, Tim Koder, Laura Schmidt, Amy Williams, Christopher Winchester Introduction Journal publishers increasingly offer governmental and charit...