The Scholar’s Space

Open Access News is just spilling over with interesting things today. Take this tantalizing tidbit: Peter Suber, Open Access News about the citation advantage of open access publishing. Ironically, the article is published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIS&T) and is apparently not itself open access, at least not at this time. Peter provides snippets that point to the advantage for researchers in the medical and health sciences being among the highest, and chemists and physicists being the lowest, for different reasons. We’ll have to check our library subscriptions to read this one, once the databases are updated with August publications…

The latest issue of CTWatch Quarterly » 2007 » August is completely devoted to the future of scholarly communication and cyberinfrastructure. It appears to be a gold mine of insight and information with articles on changes in the form of the scientific article, the use and reuse of data, and incentives for the open access research web, among others. Perhaps I’ll find some time to peruse a couple of them later this weekend and report back.