Access
Access in computer science mean the operation of reading or writing stored information. In Library and Information Science (LIS) access mean the availability of documents and other resources.
Open access (OA) mean resources that are openly available to users with no requirements for authentication or payment. This concept is also known as 'open-access publishing' and 'free online scholarship'. A specific issue related to OA is to what degree open access journals have higher impact factor compared to restricted journals? This has been examined by, among others: Antelman (2004), Hajjem et al. (2005), Harnad & Brody (2004), Kurtz et al. (2005) and Lawrence (2001).
Literature:
Albert, K. M. (2006). Open access: implications for scholarly publishing and medical libraries. JAMA: Journal of the Medical Library Association, 94(3), 253–262. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1525322
Antelman, K. (2004) Do Open-Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact? College and Research Libraries, 65(5), 372-382. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crljournal/crl2004/crlseptember/antelman.pdf
Drott, M. C. (2006). Open access. Annual review of information science and technology, 40, 79-109.
Hajjem, C., Harnad, S. and Gingras, Y. (2005) Ten-Year Cross-Disciplinary Comparison of the Growth of Open Access and How it Increases Research Citation Impact. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 28(4), 39-47. http://sites.computer.org/debull/A05dec/hajjem.pdf
Harnad, S., and Brody, T. (2004) Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals. D-Lib Magazine, 10(6) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/harnad/06harnad.html
Jacobs, N. (2006). (Ed.) Open access: key strategic, technical and economic aspects. Oxford: Chandos Publishing Ltd.
Kurtz, M. J., Eichihorn, G., Accomazzi, A., Grant, C., Demleitner, M., Henneken, E., Murray, S. S. (2005) The effect of use and access on citations. Information Processing and Management, 41(5), 1395-1402.
Lawrence, S.
(2001) Free online availability substantially increases a paper's impact.
Nature 411, (6837), 521. http://www.nature.com/nature/
debates/e-access/Articles/lawrence.html
Schrader, A. M. (1992). A system theory of access. IN: Conceptions of Library and Information Science. Historical, empirical and theoretical perspectives. Ed. by Pertti Vakkari & Blaise Cronin. London: Taylor Graham. (Pp. 187-200).
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.(2005). Self-archiving. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-archiving
Willinsky, J. (2005). The access principle: the case
for open access to research and scholarship. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
See also: Availability; Open access; The Public Library of Science
Birger Hjørland
Last edited: 31-07-2007
