Posted by <rgd6@cornell.edu>
I just thought the following might be of interest to members of the System Dynamics Society .... which as a small group striving to make a big impact, might want to pursue the idea of open access publishing more seriously, especially if there is a need to more widely disseminate quality papers in the field.
A few months back I got a copy of a special issue of ""The Common Property Resource Digest"" which can be found at:
http://www.iascp.org/E-CPR/cpr72.pdf
This issue discusses in detail the question of open access publishing, several related issues, has useful suggestions, and includes a number of useful links.
The newsletter is published by the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP)
http://www.iascp.org/index.html
Of particular interest is the idea of increased impact obtained via open access publishing.
There is a link to the The Open Citation Project which includes a summary
entitled: ""The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation
impact: a bibliography of studies""
http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html).
This review summarizes some of the research into the increased impact of made possible by open access publishing.
Richard
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Posted by <rgd6@cornell.edu>
posting date Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:00:28 +0700