Document Type
Article
Original Publication Date
2019
Journal/Book/Conference Title
College & Research Libraries
Volume
80
Issue
3
First Page
303
Last Page
318
Date of Submission
April 2019
Abstract
To examine changes in the open access landscape over time, this study partially replicated Kristin Antelman’s 2004 study of open access citation advantage. Results indicated open access articles still have a citation advantage. For three of the four disciplines examined, the most common sites hosting freely available articles were independent sites, such as academic social networks or article sharing sites. For the same three disciplines, more than 70% of the open access copies were publishers’ PDFs. The major difference from Antelman’s is the increase in the number of freely available articles that appear to be in violation of publisher policies.
Rights
Copyright Julie Arendt, Bettina Peacemaker, Hillary Miller. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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Is Part Of
VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
Comments
Study pre-registered with an analysis plan at https://osf.io/2ae99.