The Emerald Group Publishing Limited have informed the Department that Dr. Michael Norris has been named as a Highly Commended Award winner of the 2008 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the Information Science category for his doctoral thesis ‘The citation advantage of open access articles’. These prestigious awards have now been running for four years and attract submissions of an exceptionally high quality from across the globe in all subject areas.
Michael was awarded his Ph.D. in the autumn of 2008 and is continuing to work on a research project in DIS. Charles Oppenheim, Head of Department commented: “This recognition of Dr. Norris’ research is richly deserved. His outstanding research explored the topical and contentious issue of whether Open Access journal articles receive more citations than toll access journals, and if so, why. His work demonstrated that the reasons for the increase of citations are complex and cannot be explained away in a simplistic fashion, as some have tried to do.”
PS: Congratulations, Michael! Also see the published article based on the dissertation: Michael Norris, Charles Oppenheim, and Fytton Rowland, The citation advantage of open-access articles, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, July 9, 2008. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, neither the article nor the dissertation is yet OA.
Update (1/13/09). Two articles based on this dissertation have now been self-archived:
Michael Norris, Charles Oppenheim, and Fytton Rowland, The citation advantage of open-access articles, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, July 9, 2008.
Update (1/15/09). The dissertation itself has now been self-archived as well.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 1/10/2009 10:58:00 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.
