%0 Generic
%A Antelman, Kristin
%D 2006
%F eprints3:6023
%I Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
%K open access ; self-archiving
%N 2
%P 85-95
%T Self-archiving practice and the influence of publisher policies in the social sciences
%U http://eprints.rclis.org/6023/
%V 19
%X 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.