---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Solomon <[email protected]> Date: Wed, May 22, 2013 at 2:37 AM Subject: [BOAI] New Research on Green and Gold OA To: SPARC-OAForum <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Open Access Subject Repositories – an Overview Bo-Christer Björk Hanken School of Economics P.O. Box 479, 00101 Helsinki, Finland [email protected] Abstract Subject repositories are open web collections of working papers or manuscript copies of published scholarly articles, specific to particular scientific disciplines. The first repositories emerged already in the early 1990’s and in some fields of science they have become an important channel for the dissemination of research results. Using quite strict inclusion criteria 56 subject repositories were identified from a much larger number indexed in two repository indexes. A closer study of these demonstrated a huge variety in sizes, organizational models, functions and topics. When they first started to emerge subject repositories catered to a strong market demand, but the later development of Internet search engines, the rapid growth of institutional repositories and the tightening up of journal publisher OA policies seems to be slowing down their growth. http://www.openaccesspublishing.org/repositories/Subject_Repositories.pdf This is the accepted version of an article that will be published in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. *Please see *http://www.openaccesspublishing.org/ for other recent research papers on both green and gold open access. Our site is set up as a blog so feel free to comment on the articles. -- To unsubscribe from the BOAI Forum, use the form on this page: http://www.soros.org/openaccess/forum.shtml?f -- *Carolina Rossini* http://carolinarossini.net/ + 1 6176979389 *[email protected]* skype: carolrossini @carolinarossini
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