Alma Swan et al's OA studies now in CogPrints

Alma Swan and collaborators' 2 seminal studies (both the published versions in Learned Publishing journal and the original JISC Report versions) are now accessible in CogPrints: Swan, Alma and Brown, Sheridan (2004) Authors and open access publishing. Learned Publishing 17(3): 219-224.

Re: Scottish Declaration on Open Access

On 15 Mar 2005, at 12:11, Michael Fraser wrote: Just in case it's of interest, the Guardian has a short but effective piece on the Scottish Declaration on Open Access (http://scurl.ac.uk/WG/OATS/declaration.htm) -- 16 universties committed to institutional repositories (or a jointly-developed ce

Three new findings on the OA Impact Advantage

The following three findings by Chawki Hajjem have been added (text in French but graphs self-explanatory) to his research website: http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/lab/chawki/ch.htm (1) The OA advantage -- the higher citation counts for self-archived articles compared to non-self-archived ones in the