Alec Banning, Possible correlation between citation and cost of content, Librarians at the Gate, October 13, 2005. We know that OA increases citation impact for academic literature. Now we have evidence of the same connection for newspaper columns. Citations to three popular New York Times columnists have decreased since the Times decided to make them TA rather than OA. It appears --no surprise-- that the connection between OA and citation impact is a general phenomenon.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/14/2005 09:14:00 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.
