Wednesday 13 June 2012

Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items)

Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.new (50 items)


A comparison of subscription and open access journals in construction management and related fields

Posted: 13 Jun 2012 05:40 AM PDT

 
A comparison of subscription and open access journals in construction management and related fields
Bo-Christer Bjork
Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building 12 (2), (30 May 2012)
Abstract: The Internet has profoundly changed the technical infrastructure for the publishing of scientific peer reviewed journals. The traditional business model of selling the content to subscribers is increasingly being challenged by Open Access journals, which are either run at low cost by voluntary academics or which sell dissemination services to authors. In addition authors in many fields are taking advantage of the legal possibilities of uploading free manuscript versions to institutional or subject-based repositories, in order to increase readership and impact. Construction Management is lagging behind many other fields in utilising the potential of the web for efficient dissemination results, in particular to academics outside the leading universities in industrialised countries. This study looks closer at the current publishing situation in construction management and related fields and compares empirical data about 16 OA journals and 16 traditional subscription journals. Of the articles published in 2011 in the subscription journals only 9 % could be found as OA copies. The overall OA availability (including article in OA journals) was 14 % for Construction Management and Economics and 29 for construction IT scholarship.
Posted by stevehit to pep.oa pep.biblio oa.new on Wed Jun 13 2012 at 12:40 UTC | info | related

British Columbians invited to GovTogether

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 12:31 PM PDT

 
British Columbians invited to GovTogether
BC Government
Newsroom, (12 Jun 2012)

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