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- Will An Institutional Repository Hurt My SSRN Ranking?
- Publication bias: What are the challenges and can they be overcome?
- Setting up an open access digital repository: A case study
- Game Over for old-school publishers
- Lets CC – Creative Commons Search Engine
| Will An Institutional Repository Hurt My SSRN Ranking? Posted: 25 Apr 2012 06:42 AM PDT AALL Spectrum, (Apr 2012) Plans for a new IR project within the law school can quickly find worthy motives swept aside: “Won’t posting my articles elsewhere steal downloads away from SSRN? That would lower my rankings in SSRN and perhaps reduce my professional stature.” While the total number of readers of any given work is certainly finite, this fact can lead to the mistaken conclusion that it is therefore also bounded. In other words, if the SSRN and IR copies both get 100 downloads, we needn’t leap to the conclusion that without the IR copy the SSRN downloads would have been 200. There is at least as good an argument that the 100 IR downloads represent new readers who would otherwise not have found the piece at all, yielding a net increase in the audience. It can be shown, we believe, that the zero-sum fear is unwarranted. SSRN and IRs more likely draw from different readerships, meaning that downloads recorded for the repository copy represent not diverted SSRN readers but a new audience for the content. SSRN and IRs do not fight for the same eyeballs, but instead target different populations defined by how readers find their way to the desired content. Conclusion: Use Both! While SSRN excels at delivering their work to the cadre of legal specialists, IRs typically do a better job of presenting it to a broader readership. |
| Publication bias: What are the challenges and can they be overcome? Posted: 25 Apr 2012 06:30 AM PDT J Psychiatry Neurosci 37 (3), 149-52 (2012) Editorial: "In the case of clinical trials, withholding negative results from publication — publication bias — could have major consequences for the health of millions." On the OA angle: "many open-access journals state their commitment to publish manuscripts regardless of whether they report positive or negative results as long as their methodology is sound. This is certainly a move in the right direction, although it does not necessarily guarantee the eradication of the problem. One major problem with most current open-access models is their necessary reliance on publication charges, often assumed by authors. This may deter authors from submitting manuscripts with negative results, particularly since these manuscripts may not be highly rewarded in terms of recognition and citation when they are published. In addition, it has been suggested that open-access journals with relatively high publication charges might introduce a new bias (e-publication bias). For example, in a recent study examining papers published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases either with open access or with subscription access (depending on whether authors chose to pay publication charges), Jakobsen and colleagues found that a significantly greater proportion of studies published in the open-access section were industry funded, which could lead to preferential publication of results supporting industry products. Thus high open-access charges combined with the low incentive that authors may derive from negative publications may not solve the publication bias problem. |
| Setting up an open access digital repository: A case study Posted: 25 Apr 2012 06:21 AM PDT Annals of Library and Information Studies (ALIS) 59 (1), (2012) Abstract: Setting up of institutional repositories has been gathering momentum in India and many academic and R&D establishments have made it mandatory to set up institutional repositories. This paper briefly details the work that has gone into setting up and configuring the digital repository of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MOES). The repository has been setup using the free and open source software, GNU Eprints.org (http://eprints.org). Such a repository will not only help in the wider dissemination of the publications that emerge from the projects and programmes supported by the MOES, but it will also serve as an information management system for the ministry. |
| Game Over for old-school publishers Posted: 25 Apr 2012 01:18 AM PDT @ccess, (24 Apr 2012) exposing the Achilles heel of restricted access publishers |
| Lets CC – Creative Commons Search Engine Posted: 24 Apr 2012 10:31 AM PDT Free Learning, (23 Apr 2012) [Posted by Free Learning: Access for free educational resources from across the globe] “There are many ways to search for only Creative Commons-licensed materials, but the new Let’s CC provides one of the most elegant integrated searches for CC materials that I have seen. It allows you to filter by audio, images, rich media or otherwise and searches a large number of sources for reusable material. – SWL” |
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