May

28

Open Access and Citation Rate

May 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Open Access Increases Citation Rate. ‘PLoS Biology publishes today a research article by Gunther Eysenbach that is not about biology. It is about citations. It provides robust evidence that open-access articles (OA articles) are more immediately recognized and cited than non-OA articles. As such, it adds objective support to the belief we have always held [...]

Apr

18

The Open Research Web

April 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment

The Open Research Web: A Preview of the Optimal and the Inevitable. Abstract: ‘Further development of GNU EPrints and Citebase, together with the growing webwide database of Open Access (OA) articles, and the data we will collect and analyse from it, will allow us to do several things for which the unique historic moment has [...]

Apr

12

Windows Live Academic Search

April 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Microsoft challenges Google Scholar. ‘Microsoft has launched a rival to Google’s Scholar service, which searches academic information to help students and researchers. The initial beta release of Windows Live Academic Search focuses on computer science, electrical engineering and physics and is available in seven countries.’ Microsoft’s Google Scholar Rival Set to Go Live Microsoft reveals [...]

Apr

8

Free Access to Full Text Articles

April 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Free Online Full-text Articles ((List limited to journals published online with the assistance of HighWire Press). ‘HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth! As of 4/8/06, we are assisting in the online publication of 1,336,244 free full-text articles and 3,433,440 total articles. There are 33 sites with free trial periods, [...]

Apr

3

Open Educational Resources

April 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Open Educational Resources (OER): open content for higher education. ‘This site is a place where members of the IIEP Open Educational Resources Community can work together on questions, issues and documents. This list of links to OER initiatives, resources and tools was compiled following the first IIEP discussion forum on Open Educational Resources (24 October [...]

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