April Stats
Posted By Erica Wine at 03/05/2012 09:46:33
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March stats
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February Stats
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Open Access - Snippet No. 3
Posted By Erica Wine at 23/02/2012 11:50:26
Usage
Publication visibility translates into usage and citations.
Open Access - Snippet No. 2
Posted By Erica Wine at 09/02/2012 09:58:13
Visibility
Without Open Access, the only way to see academic work is by paying for subscriptions to journals or by paying a fee to view an article.
This has the effect of restricting access to all bet the minority who can afford to pay for access.
In a survey conducted at the beginning of the millennium more than half research-based institutions in lower-income countries had no subscriptions to international research journal. Unsurprisingly , researchers in those countries rank access to research literature as one of their most pressing problems.
In other surveys it was found that also in the wealthier world, researchers find increasingly difficult to access the material they need.
Swan, Alma (2011) Open Access: Impact for researchers, universities and society. RLUK.
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