Self-archiving practice and the influence of publisher policies in the social sciences
(2006) Self-archiving practice and the influence of publisher policies in the social sciences. Learned Publishing 19(2):pp. 85-95.
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Abstract
Authors in different disciplines exhibit very different behaviours on the so-called ‘green’ road to open access, i.e. self-archiving. This study looks at the self-archiving behaviour of authors publishing in leading journals in six social science disciplines. It tests the hypothesis that authors are self-archiving according to the norms of their respective disciplines rather than following self-archiving policies of publishers, and that, as a result, they are self-archiving significant numbers of publisher PDF versions. It finds significant levels of
self-archiving, as well as significant self-archiving of
the publisher PDF version, in all the disciplines
investigated. Publishers’ self-archiving policies have
no influence on author self-archiving practice.
| Keywords: | open access ; self-archiving |
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| Subjects: | E. Publishing and legal issues. > ED. Intellectual property: author's rights, ownership, copyright, copyleft. H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HS. Repositories. |
| ID Code: | 6023 |
| Deposited By: | Antelman, Kristin |
| Deposited On: | 12 April 2006 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/kantelman/antelman_self-archiving.pdf |
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