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Tag: Green OA
STM and HSS – the Great OA Divide
There is a divide in how academics from the humanities and social sciences view open access publishing compared to their colleagues in the science, technology and medical fields: HSS is notably more skittish about OA.
The State of Open Access in 18 Statements
Open Access Week starts today and in honor Stephen Pinfield provides an overview of 18 propositions on open access identified through an extensive analysis of the discourse. It is clear that whilst OA has come a long way in the last five years, there is a lot to do in making open access work.
This Study Finds Citation Rate Boost for Self-Archived Articles
New research indicates that self-archived, or 'green' open-access articles, regardless of format, receive significantly higher citation counts than do non-OA articles from the same editions of the same major political science journals.
OA in Britain: We Have a Rule, Now Let’s Get Some Data
The landscape for open access in Britain's social science and humanities fields is very different and very similar to the better studied STEM fields, a new report from the British Academy finds.