DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology
India is peculiarly positioned to help herself while helping the entire planet as well. India nee... more India is peculiarly positioned to help herself while helping the entire planet as well. India needs to adopt a national OA self-archiving mandate for all of its research institutions and funders. The principle is simple, it is already embodied in India’s Law of Karma as well as in the West’s ‘Golden Rule’: ‘Self-Archive Unto Others As You Would Have Them Self-Archive Unto You’. If India sets the example, by officially adopting and implementing this rule, India’s own research access and impact will be maximised, the rest of the world will follow India’s example, and research progress worldwide will be the beneficiary.
Ad personam: STEVAN HARNAD was born in Budapest, Hungary, did his undergraduate work at McGill Un... more Ad personam: STEVAN HARNAD was born in Budapest, Hungary, did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University. Currently he holds the Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Sciences at Universite du Quebec a Montreal and is Affiliate Professor in Electronics and Computer Science at University of Southampton, UK, where his research is on categorisation, communication and cognition. He is founder and editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (a paper journal published by Cambridge University Press), past ...
No research institution can afford all the journals its researchers may need, so all articles are... more No research institution can afford all the journals its researchers may need, so all articles are losing research impact (usage and citations) from would-be users whose institutions cannot afford paid access. Articles that are made “Open Access,” by self-archiving them on the web are cited twice as much, but only about 15 percent of articles are being spontaneously self-archived. The only institutions approaching 100 percent self-archiving are those that mandate it. Surveys show that majority of authors (95%) will comply with a self-archiving ...
Abstract: Many studies have now reported the positive correlation between Open Access (OA) self-a... more Abstract: Many studies have now reported the positive correlation between Open Access (OA) self-archiving and citation counts (" OA Advantage," OAA). But does this OAA occur because (QB) authors are more likely to self-selectively self-archive articles that are more likely to be cited (self-selection" Quality Bias": QB)? or because (QA) articles that are self-archived are more likely to be cited (" Quality Advantage": QA)? The probable answer is both. Three studies [by (i) Kurtz and co-workers in astrophysics,(ii) Moed in condensed ...
Only 15% of articles are currently being made Open Access (OA) through spontaneous self-archiving... more Only 15% of articles are currently being made Open Access (OA) through spontaneous self-archiving efforts by their authors. They average 25%-250% more citations in all 12 disciplines tested so far. Ninety-four percent of journals endorse immediate OA self-archiving. There is no evidence that self-archiving induces subscription cancellations. The “OA advantage” consists of: Early Advantage (early self-archiving produces both earlier and more citations), Usage Advantage (more downloads for OA articles, correlated with later ...
Citebase is a new citation-ranked search and impact discovery service that measures citations of ... more Citebase is a new citation-ranked search and impact discovery service that measures citations of scholarly research papers which are openly accessible on the Web, ie papers that are assessable continuously online. Other services, such as ResearchIndex, have emerged in recent years to offer citation indexing of Web research papers. In the first detailed user evaluation of an open access Web citation indexing service, Citebase has been evaluated by nearly 200 users from different backgrounds. The paper details the ...
JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government, 2011
The primary target of the worldwide Open Access initiative is the 2.5 million articles published ... more The primary target of the worldwide Open Access initiative is the 2.5 million articles published every year in the planet's 25,000 peer-reviewed research journals across all scholarly and scientific fields. Without exception, every one of these articles is an author give-away, written, not for royalty income, but solely to be used, applied and built upon by other researchers. The optimal and inevitable solution for this give-away research is that it should be made freely accessible to all its would-be users online and not only to those whose institutions can afford subscription access to the journal in which it happens to be published. Yet this optimal and inevitable solution, already fully within the reach of the global research community for at least two decades now, has been taking a remarkably long time to be grasped. The problem is not particularly an instance of "eDemocracy" one way or the other; it is an instance of inaction because of widespread misconceptions ...
Should traditional publishing be combined with open access (OA)? What are the issues facing insti... more Should traditional publishing be combined with open access (OA)? What are the issues facing institutions and researchers in implementing OA? At this symposium, experts and institutions committed to encouraging their researchers to provide OA to their research output will discuss: self-archiving as a supplement to rather than a substitute for publishing in traditional peer-reviewed journals; how self-archiving increases research impact; and the role of scientific institutions and institutional policies in creating and filling the OA archives.
DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology
India is peculiarly positioned to help herself while helping the entire planet as well. India nee... more India is peculiarly positioned to help herself while helping the entire planet as well. India needs to adopt a national OA self-archiving mandate for all of its research institutions and funders. The principle is simple, it is already embodied in India’s Law of Karma as well as in the West’s ‘Golden Rule’: ‘Self-Archive Unto Others As You Would Have Them Self-Archive Unto You’. If India sets the example, by officially adopting and implementing this rule, India’s own research access and impact will be maximised, the rest of the world will follow India’s example, and research progress worldwide will be the beneficiary.
Ad personam: STEVAN HARNAD was born in Budapest, Hungary, did his undergraduate work at McGill Un... more Ad personam: STEVAN HARNAD was born in Budapest, Hungary, did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University. Currently he holds the Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Sciences at Universite du Quebec a Montreal and is Affiliate Professor in Electronics and Computer Science at University of Southampton, UK, where his research is on categorisation, communication and cognition. He is founder and editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (a paper journal published by Cambridge University Press), past ...
No research institution can afford all the journals its researchers may need, so all articles are... more No research institution can afford all the journals its researchers may need, so all articles are losing research impact (usage and citations) from would-be users whose institutions cannot afford paid access. Articles that are made “Open Access,” by self-archiving them on the web are cited twice as much, but only about 15 percent of articles are being spontaneously self-archived. The only institutions approaching 100 percent self-archiving are those that mandate it. Surveys show that majority of authors (95%) will comply with a self-archiving ...
Abstract: Many studies have now reported the positive correlation between Open Access (OA) self-a... more Abstract: Many studies have now reported the positive correlation between Open Access (OA) self-archiving and citation counts (" OA Advantage," OAA). But does this OAA occur because (QB) authors are more likely to self-selectively self-archive articles that are more likely to be cited (self-selection" Quality Bias": QB)? or because (QA) articles that are self-archived are more likely to be cited (" Quality Advantage": QA)? The probable answer is both. Three studies [by (i) Kurtz and co-workers in astrophysics,(ii) Moed in condensed ...
Only 15% of articles are currently being made Open Access (OA) through spontaneous self-archiving... more Only 15% of articles are currently being made Open Access (OA) through spontaneous self-archiving efforts by their authors. They average 25%-250% more citations in all 12 disciplines tested so far. Ninety-four percent of journals endorse immediate OA self-archiving. There is no evidence that self-archiving induces subscription cancellations. The “OA advantage” consists of: Early Advantage (early self-archiving produces both earlier and more citations), Usage Advantage (more downloads for OA articles, correlated with later ...
Citebase is a new citation-ranked search and impact discovery service that measures citations of ... more Citebase is a new citation-ranked search and impact discovery service that measures citations of scholarly research papers which are openly accessible on the Web, ie papers that are assessable continuously online. Other services, such as ResearchIndex, have emerged in recent years to offer citation indexing of Web research papers. In the first detailed user evaluation of an open access Web citation indexing service, Citebase has been evaluated by nearly 200 users from different backgrounds. The paper details the ...
JeDEM - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government, 2011
The primary target of the worldwide Open Access initiative is the 2.5 million articles published ... more The primary target of the worldwide Open Access initiative is the 2.5 million articles published every year in the planet's 25,000 peer-reviewed research journals across all scholarly and scientific fields. Without exception, every one of these articles is an author give-away, written, not for royalty income, but solely to be used, applied and built upon by other researchers. The optimal and inevitable solution for this give-away research is that it should be made freely accessible to all its would-be users online and not only to those whose institutions can afford subscription access to the journal in which it happens to be published. Yet this optimal and inevitable solution, already fully within the reach of the global research community for at least two decades now, has been taking a remarkably long time to be grasped. The problem is not particularly an instance of "eDemocracy" one way or the other; it is an instance of inaction because of widespread misconceptions ...
Should traditional publishing be combined with open access (OA)? What are the issues facing insti... more Should traditional publishing be combined with open access (OA)? What are the issues facing institutions and researchers in implementing OA? At this symposium, experts and institutions committed to encouraging their researchers to provide OA to their research output will discuss: self-archiving as a supplement to rather than a substitute for publishing in traditional peer-reviewed journals; how self-archiving increases research impact; and the role of scientific institutions and institutional policies in creating and filling the OA archives.
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