Open Access Journal Content Found in Commercial Full-Text Aggregation Databases and Journal Citation Reports

Connotea: stevehit's bookmarks matching tag oa.new 2013-01-04

Summary:

"From the Abstract: Using publicly available database title lists produced by the full-text aggregation database publishers, titles and title metadata were analyzed and compared to data from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Journal Citation Reports (JCR) metrics file in order to investigate the availability of open access (OA) scholarly journals. Subject Category Impact Factor Ranking Quartiles and Percentiles (SCIFRQs and SCIFRPs) were used as part of this investigation as indicators of the research significance of these OA journals. Results showed that very small percentages of open access journals were indexed by in each of the full-text aggregators studied. 7.9% of titles included in journal citation reports were OA Journals. This study also reports the averaged SCIFRPs of OA journals for all subject areas with more than five journals included in JCR. The average SCIFRP for OA journals included in JCR was 34.49% and the averaged SCIFRP for all OA journals indexed by full-text aggregation databases being studied is 41.2%. This study points to large differences between differences in the rate of indexing OA journals by different databases." Posted by stevehit to oa.new on Fri Jan 04 2013

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http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17072716&show=abstract

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Authors:

stevehit

Date tagged:

01/04/2013, 16:12

Date published:

01/04/2013, 08:07