At 07:37 PM 9/27/2005, Peter Banks wrote:
[...]
Although Peter Suber recently claimed (in a
letter to the Washington Times) that "Study after study has
shown that
free online access increases the impact of research
literature, as
measured by citations, 50 percent to 250 percent," I am not
sure what
"study after study" refers to, though is clearly is a
reference to
Harnad's work.
Dr. Harnad has provided one other refererence
<
http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/lab/chawki/graphes/EtudeImpact.htm>,
so perhaps
"study after study" means literally that: two studies. Or
maybe there are
more, but I can't find references.
I was referring to the many studies collected by Steve Hitchcock in his
excellent bibliography:
The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a
bibliography of studies
http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
Peter
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Peter Suber
Open Access Project Director, Public Knowledge
Research Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College
Author, SPARC Open Access Newsletter
Editor, Open Access News blog
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/
peter.suber_at_earlham.edu
Received on Wed Sep 28 2005 - 20:33:07 BST