Dorothea Salo, Rolling with the punches, Caveat Lector, March 27, 2006. More on Phil Davis' study concluding that the correlation between OA and citation impact is not due to OA itself but to authors selecting their best work for OA archiving. Dorothea doesn't argue that Davis is right, but does argue that his conclusion can support effective new strategies for filling institutional repositories. If Davis is right, then we argue that researchers are making their best work OA. If not, then we argue that OA increases citation impact. Excerpt:
I hope I’m not the only repository-rat in existence to see an obvious and compelling new story to tell. “The best researchers are going OA —so you should too!” I like this story. It should play well. Researchers always have their eyes on their field’s hotshots.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/30/2006 08:11:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
