Walt at Random » Blog Archive » It’s out: Open-Access Journals: Idealism and Opportunism

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-09-11

Summary:

"ALA TechSource has now mailed out copies of Open-Access Journals: Idealism and Opportunism to subscribers of Library Technology Reports–and if you’re not a subscriber, you or your library can purchase the whole report or chapters of it from the LTR website. You can read the first chapter for free, including the big numbers (it’s standard practice for LTR to make first chapters open access). I think this is worth reading and buying. It’s the distillation of the first general phase of my multiphase investigation into the realities of gold OA–looking at all the journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals that have English-language interfaces, and tracking their articles from 2011 through the first half of 2014 ..."

Link:

http://walt.lishost.org/2015/09/its-out-open-access-journals-idealism-and-opportunism/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.studies oa.gold oa.disciplines oa.fees oa.prices oa.rankings oa.lis oa.libraries oa.librarians oa.reports oa.journals

Date tagged:

09/11/2015, 08:09

Date published:

09/11/2015, 04:09