A Google search done today, using the key words "Electronic support groups", yielded a ranked list of pages, which included (at rank #3) a PDF version of an invited peer-reviewed commentary of mine in a new subscription-based journal, Journal of Cancer Integrative Medicine 2004(Winter); 2(1): 21-24. This commentary (to which I retained copyright) was self-archived in the Cogprints archive a month ago, on 21 April. As noted in a
message of mine posted to the AmSci OA Forum on 26 April, this same eprint in the Cogprints archive had achieved a very high Google page rank (at #5) within days after it had been self-archived. [Comment: My tentative explanations for this prompt high page rank are either that it was a chance result, or that some domains, including the Cogprints domain, are given an immediate high Google PageRank weighting].
Posted by
Jim Till at 5/21/2004 09:57:00 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.
