Although many authors believe that their work has a greater research
impact if it is freely available, studies to demonstrate that impact are few.
This study looks at articles in four disciplines at varying stages of adoption
of open access-philosophy, political science, electrical and electronic
engineering and mathematics-to see whether they have a greater im-
pact as measured by citations in the ISI Web of Science database when
their authors make them freely available on the Internet. The finding is
that, across all four disciplines, freely available articles do have a greater
research impact. Shedding light on this category of open access reveals
that scholars in diverse disciplines are adopting open-access practices
and being rewarded for it.
The book review of
Willinsky, J. (2006) The Access Principle: the case for open access to research and scholar-
ship. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. xv + 287 pp. ISBN
0-262-23242-1.
The way to test the impact advantage of Open Access (OA) is not to compare the citation impact factors of OA and non-OA journals but to compare the citation counts of individual OA and non-OA articles appearing in the same (non-OA) journals. Such ongoing comparisons are revealing dramatic citation advantages for OA.
This article suggested that by developing open source software which adopt some features like in Google, would help library users finding information they need.
Hardly a day went by this week without a major new announcement in the eBook and eReader arena. The wireless eReaders from Sony and the Irex/Barnes & Noble ...
This website will help you understand the changing landscape and how it affects you and your research. It also offers practical ways to look out for your own interests as a researcher.
A scholarly revolution is underway. It enables you to get a greater return from your research. All you have to do is share it.
Mendeley Desktop is academic software that indexes and organizes all of your PDF documents and research papers into your own personal digital bibliography.
Open-source softwares and social networking allow anyone anywhere to share and create contents online. People on longer need printed press such as newspaper, magazine as the cultural gatekeeper.