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Open access publishing

Correia, A. M. R., and Teixeira, J. C. (2005). "Reforming scholarly publishing and knowledge communication: From the advent of the
scholarly journal to the challenges of open access." Online Information Review, 29(4), 349

Schroter, S., and Tite, L. (2006). "Open access publishing and author-pays business models: a survey of authors' knowledge and
perceptions Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain)." Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 99(3), 141

Suber, P. "Open Access News: news from the open access movement." http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html

Sullivan, S., and Horwood, L. "The Open Access model of research publishing." Information Online 2005., Sydney http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000809/

Willinsky, J. (2006). The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/willinsky/TheAccessPrinciple_TheMITPress_0262232421.pdf

(2006). "Consensus is difficult in open-access debate." Research Information, http://www.researchinformation.info/rijunjul06openaccess.html

Research accessibility and impact

Antelman, K. (2004). "Do open-access articles have a greater research impact?" College and Research Libraries, 65(5), 372-382 http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00002309/

Eysenbach, G. (2006). "Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles." PLoS Biology, 4(5), 0692-0698
http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10%2E1371%2Fjournal%2Epbio%2E0040157#s2

Harnard, S., and Brody, T. (2004). "Comparing the impact of open access (OA) vs non-OA articles in the same journals." D-Lib Magazine, 10(6) http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june04/harnad/06harnad.html

Porter, S. (2005). "Managing, Communicating and Facilitating Research in a Hypertext University." http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00001030/

The effect of open access and downloads ('hits') on citation impact: a bibliography of studies:
http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html

Google Scholar

Giles, J. (2005). "Science in the web age: Start your engines." Nature, 438, 554-555

Pauly, D., and Stergiou, K. I. (2005). "Equivalence of results from two citation analyses: Thomson ISI's Citation Index and Google's Scholar service." Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, 33-35 http://www.int-res.com/articles/esep/2005/E65.pdf

ISI Web Citation Index

Martello, A. (Managing Editor, Web Content, Thomson). "Selection of content for the Web Citation Index (TM): Instutitional repositories and subject-specific archives." http://scientific.thomson.com/free/essays/selectionofmaterial/wci-selection/

Further reading

Many more articles on scholarly communication issues listed here:
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/scholarlycomm/scholarlycommunicationtoolkit/tools/tools.htm