[open-science] how to convince someone to publish open access?

Wed Jul 21 14:34:39 UTC 2010

That's a question I don't know the answer to, but as an editor of an open access journal (ijdc.net, about digital curation), it makes me wonder what stats people would like, and how to get them collected...

Eg how does one set about getting a journal to have an impact factor?

We did some research last year on downloads and article citation rates, using Google Scholar, mentioned in the Editorial to the issue prior to the one just published, see http://ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/viewFile/129/169. Annoyingly there doesn't appear to be an API to Google Scholar, making this a tedious piece of desk research that needs repeating each time its to be reported. Are there better measures we could compute more easily at low cost? (Open Access journals do not have high budgets.)

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On 21 Jul 2010, at 14:59, James Casbon wrote:

> Hi Open Science,
> 
> Does anyone have some decent stats on open access journals?  Tried to
> look at impact factors but they're behind a paywall.
> 
> Specifically, I need hard facts to counter the claim that open access
> are more 'downmarket' than their closed competitors.
> 
> thanks,
> James
> 
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