Paul Blowers and Barbara Williams, Have we Changed the Way we do Research in Response to the Availability of Online Information? A PPT presentation from the conference of the American Society for Engineering Education Engineering Libraries Division (Salt Lake City, June 21, 2004). Blowers and Williams produce data showing (1) that journals are cited more often after they move online than before, (2) that print-only journals are cited less often after competitors appear online than before, and (3) that "prohibitively expensive" journals, even when online, are cited less often than more affordable journals.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/05/2004 10:41:00 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.
