BIROpen: open access meets flexibility

Open Access Meets Discoverability: Citations to Articles Posted to Academia.edu.

Using matching and regression analyses, we measure the difference in citations between articles posted to Academia.edu and other articles from similar journals, controlling for field, impact factor, and other variables. Based on a sample size of 31,216 papers, we find that a paper in a median impact factor journal uploaded to Academia.edu receives 16% more citations after one year than a simila...

predatory open access journals

سخن سردبیر editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره پانزدهم، آبان 1395، 808-807 مجلات یغماگر با دسترسی آزاد predatory open access journals محسن رضائیان[1]،[2] m. rezaeian پیدایش و رشد «مجلات با دسترسی آزاد» (open access journals) در سالیان اخیر، نویدبخش دوره جدیدی از چاپ و انتشار یافته های نوین علمی بود. قرار بود که در این دوره جدید، نویسندگان یک مقاله علمی با پرداخت هزینه های چاپ، نتیجه ...

When Is Open Access Not Open Access?

S ince 2003, when PLoS Biology was launched, there has been a spectacular growth in " open-access " journals. The Directory of Open Access Journals (http:⁄⁄www. doaj.org/), hosted by Lund University Libraries, lists 2,816 open-access journals as this article goes to press (and probably more by the time you read this). Authors also have various " open-access " options within existing subscriptio...

Public Policy Research in PolicyArchive: Use of DSpace When Metadata Meets Open Access

Circuit Complexity Meets Ontology-Based Data Access

Ontology-based data access is an approach to organizing access to a database augmented with a logical theory. In this approach query answering proceeds through a reformulation of a given query into a new one which can be answered without any use of theory. Thus the problem reduces to the standard database setting. However, the size of the query may increase substantially during the reformulatio...