An article entitled “The citation advantage of open access articles” has received recognition as Highly Commended in the Information Science category of the 2008 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. The article, coauthored by recent Loughborough University doctoral degree recipient Michael Norris, examines the citation of articles from high-impact subscription journals in four subjects. Addressing several well-known caveats in assessing citation advantage (such as self-citation), Norris et al conclude that articles from these journals that have been made freely available on the Web (such as through open access archives) are more likely overall to be cited elsewhere.
Purdue e-Pubs (http://docs.lib.purdue.edu) is the open access archive of Purdue University, and members of the Purdue University faculty who would like to bring the value of open access to their journal publications and other scholarly material should contact either the subject-specialist librarian for their department or Mark Newton, the digital collections librarian (newton@purdue.edu), for additional information on getting started with the e-Pubs service.
“The citation advantage of open access articles” was published in the October 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. An open access version of this article is available through the open access archive of Loughborough University.