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Davis et al's 1-year Study of Self-Selection Bias: No Self-Archiving Control,...
Update Jan 1, 2010: See Gargouri, Y; C Hajjem, V Larivière, Y Gingras, L Carr,T Brody & S Harnad (2010) Open Access, Whether Self-Selected or Mandated, Increases Citation Impact, Especially for...
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Estimating Annual Growth in OA Repository Content
SUMMARY: Re: Deblauwe, F. (2008) OA Academia in Repose: Seven Academic Open-Access Repositories Compared: A useful way to benchmark OA progress would be to focus on OA's target content --...
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On Eggs and Citations
Update Jan 1, 2010: See Gargouri, Y; C Hajjem, V Larivière, Y Gingras, L Carr,T Brody & S Harnad (2010) Open Access, Whether Self-Selected or Mandated, Increases Citation Impact, Especially for...
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Suber/Harnad statement in support of the investigative work of Richard Poynder
Richard Poynder, a distinguished scientific journalist specializing in online-era scientific/scholarly communication and publication, has been the ablest, most prolific and most probing chronicler of...
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Learned Society Survey On Open Access Self-Archiving
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Sally Morris [SM] (Morris Associates) wrote in liblicense:SM: "Sue Thorn and I will shortly be publishing a report of a research study on the attitudes and behaviour...
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Perils of Press-Release Journalism: NSF, U. Chicago, and Chronicle of Higher...
Update Jan 1, 2010: See Gargouri, Y; C Hajjem, V Larivière, Y Gingras, L Carr,T Brody & S Harnad (2010) Open Access, Whether Self-Selected or Mandated, Increases Citation Impact, Especially for...
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On Proportion and Strategy: OA, Non-OA, Gold-OA, Paid-OA
As I do not have exact figures on most of the 12 proportions I highlight below, I am expressing them only in terms of "vast majority" (75% or higher) vs. "minority" (25% or lower) -- rough figures...
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Log Ratios, Effect Size, and a Mandated OA Advantage?
Update Feb 8, 2010: See also "Open Access: Self-Selected, Mandated & Random; Answers & Questions"Phil Davis: "An interesting bit of research, although I have some methodological concerns about...
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Preference Surveys and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Do Users Prefer No Access...
SM: "Stevan asserts that researchers who cannot afford access to the published version of articles are perfectly happy with the self-archived author's final version. "Interestingly, in our survey of...
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Open Access: Self-Selected, Mandated & Random; Answers & Questions
What follows below is what we hope will be found to be a conscientious and attentive series of responses to questions raised by Phil Davis about our paper (Gargouri et al, currently under refereeing)...
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Comparing OA and Non-OA: Some Methodological Supplements
Response to Martin Fenner's comments on Gargouri Y, Hajjem C, Larivière V, Gingras Y, Carr L, Brody T, Harnad S. (2010) Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher...
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Correlation, Causation, and the Weight of Evidence
SUMMARY: One can only speculate on the reasons why some might still wish to cling to the self-selection bias hypothesis in the face of all the evidence to date. It seems almost a matter of common...
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On Methodology and Advocacy: Davis's Randomization Study of the OA Advantage
Open access, readership, citations: a randomized controlled trial of scientific journal publishing doi:10.1096/fj.11-183988fj.11-183988 Philip M. Davis: "Published today in The FASEB Journal we report...
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The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Re: Nature: The Great Beyond Suppose many studies report that cancer incidence is correlated with smoking and you want to demonstrate in a methodologically sounder way that this correlation is not...
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"The Sole Methodologically Sound Study of the Open Access Citation Advantage(!)"
Re: Chronicle of Higher Education It is true that downloads of research findings are important. They are being measured, and the evidence of the open-access download advantage is growing. See: S....
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