If you have not seen this before. 66 journals banned for boosting impact factor with self-citations, byexcessive self-citation or because of ‘citation stacking’ (in which journals cite each other to excessive amounts (Source: Nature blog) - http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/06/new-record-66-journals-banned-for-boost... - Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR http://libinfospace.blogspot.com/ ________________________________ From: Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar <vjkjk@yahoo.com> To: "lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in" <lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in>; "digilib_india@yahoogroups.com" <digilib_india@yahoogroups.com>; "nmlis@yahoogroups.com" <nmlis@yahoogroups.com>; "india-lis@infoserv.inist.fr" <india-lis@infoserv.inist.fr> Sent: Friday, April 5, 2013 9:10 AM Subject: Open Access Theses and Dissertations OATD aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 600 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes over 1.5 million theses and dissertations. URL: http://oatd.org/ ----- Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR, http://libinfospace.blogspot.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.