Study Suggests Publisher Public Access Outpacing Open Access; Gold OA Decreases Citation Performance - The Scholarly Kitchen

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-10-04

Summary:

"A recent study, out as a preprint, offers something of a muddled bag of methodological choices and compromises, but presents several surprising data points, namely that voluntary publisher efforts may be providing broader access to the literature than Gold or Green open access (OA), and some confounding shifts in claims of an open access citation advantage."

Link:

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/10/04/study-suggests-publisher-public-access-outpacing-open-access-gold-oa-decreases-citation-performance/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lkfitz's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.growth oa.gold oa.publishers oa.citations oa.advocacy oa.boai oa.definitions oa.green oa.hybrid oa.advantage oa.impact oa.repositories oa.journals

Date tagged:

10/04/2017, 13:38

Date published:

10/04/2017, 11:44