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Friday, October 13, 2006

OA helps authors and publishers

Péter Jacsó, Open access to scholarly full-text documents, Online Information Review, 30, 5 (2006). Only the abstract is free online, at least so far.  Excerpt:

...The paper shows that while open access archives are good for the majority, for publishers, editors and authors, open access articles can substantially increase their impact, and the impact factor for the source journals....