Decrease in free computer science papers found through Google Scholar
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Decrease in free computer science papers found through Google Scholar
Purpose Google Scholar was used to locate free full-text versions of computer science research papers to determine what proportion could be freely accessed. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 1967 conference papers and periodical articles from 2003-2010, indexed in the ACM Guide to Computing Literature, was searched for manually in Google Scholar, using the paper or article title and the f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Online Information Review
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1468-4527
DOI: 10.1108/oir-07-2013-0159