Open access rates of a institution’s output vs a LIS Journal output — or are librarians walking the…
lterrat's bookmarks 2017-07-16
Summary:
"Firstly, I was kinda surprised by the relatively lower rate of free to read article for the LIS journals compared to my institution’s rate, though it’s of course only 2 journals.
Restricting just to articles published from 2000 onwards to make my institution output and Journal of Academic Librarianship comparable, the free to read article % is 18.4 % vs 8.64%
Of course things aren’t exactly comparable, because of the differences in disciplines (my institution is a mix of Economics/Business/Social Science/Law/Information Systems) but I was still expecting that librarians to be more aware of the possibility of self archiving for OA. (Gold OA is a relatively small (5%) portion of my institution’s output so can be disregarded)"