By ‘open access’ to literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without fi nancial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining acce...

This updated and revised paper gives an overview of my PhD research. It focuses on two newly developed approaches. Citation Proximity Analysis (CPA) allows the identification of related work by analyzing the co-occurrence of citations within documents. In contrast to co-citation analysis various factors, such as the proximity of citations to each other, are taken into account. The second approa...

The Taiwan Humanities Citation Index (THCI) is Taiwan’s effort to construct a search, research, and evaluation tool for research in the arts and humanities. This article describes the design, framework, features, and policies and rules of the THCI. Citation analysis has been regarded as a systematic way to investigate research developments and trends. Since the Arts & Humanities Citation Index ...