BioMed Central is marking its most-downloaded articles with a new "Highly accessed" icon. As the site puts it, this is "a useful (though by no means perfect) way to identify articles that may be of broad interest." Unlike the appearance on a Top 10 list, the highly-accessed icon will persist, allowing authors to cite it. See for example the most-viewed articles of the past 30 days and the most-viewed articles of all time. You can also see the most-viewed articles for each individual BMC journal, the most-viewed articles for each institutional member, and the access statistics for any BMC author.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/05/2005 08:52:00 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.
