[LIS-Forum] Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact?

Subbiah Arunachalam arun at mssrf.res.in
Thu Sep 30 11:26:33 IST 2004


Friends:

Stevan Harnad has sent references to a few more papers which provide
evidence that open access increases research impact.

Arun

-----Original Message-----
From: Stevan Harnad [mailto:harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk]
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Subject: [SI] Re: Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research
Impact?


On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote:

> Antelman, Kristin.  "Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater
>      Research Impact?"  College & Research Libraries   65(5)
>      (September 2004):  372-382.
>      (http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00002309/). - For those who have
>      been working to create open access repositories of research and
>      scholarship, this article is a godsend. 

For more godsends, see:

    "The effect of open access and downloads ('hits')
    on citation impact: a bibliography of studies"
    http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html

Prior AmSci Threads:

    How to compare research impact of toll- vs. open-access research
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2858.html

    Measuring cumulating research impact loss across fields and time
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3212.html

    On the Strong Causal Connection Between Access and Impact
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3696.html

    Early Download Impact Predicts Later Citation Impact
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3950.html

    Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact?
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3975.html


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Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact?
Friends:
Stevan Harnad has sent references to a few more papers which provide evidence that open access increases research impact.
Arun
-----Original Message-----
From: Stevan Harnad [ mailto:harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk mailto:harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk
]
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:30 AM
To: si at wsis-cs.org
Cc: oa-india at dgroups.org; lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in;
ISSI at LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES
Subject: [SI] Re: Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research
Impact?
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Subbiah Arunachalam wrote:
> Antelman, Kristin.  "Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater
>      Research Impact?"  College & Research Libraries   65(5)
>      (September 2004):  372-382.
>      ( http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00002309/ http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00002309/
). - For those who have
>      been working to create open access repositories of research and
>      scholarship, this article is a godsend.
For more godsends, see:
    "The effect of open access and downloads ('hits')
    on citation impact: a bibliography of studies"
    http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
Prior AmSci Threads:
    How to compare research impact of toll- vs. open-access research
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2858.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/2858.html
    Measuring cumulating research impact loss across fields and time
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3212.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3212.html
    On the Strong Causal Connection Between Access and Impact
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3696.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3696.html
    Early Download Impact Predicts Later Citation Impact
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3950.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3950.html
    Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact?
    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3975.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3975.html


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