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May 03, 2004
Will They Find My Online Publication?
One of the issues related to online publishing concerns the ability of potential readers to discover the content. In a May 1, 2004 liblicense-l posting about citations of online publications, Stevan Harnad writes:
That providing Open Access to an article dramatically increases its
citations has already been tested, and it begins immediately (with
downloads, which correlate with and predict downloads 6-24 months later.
He provides a link to the Correlation Generator, a tool that generates a graph (or table) of the correlation between citation impact and usage impact* ("hits") from the Citebase database.
Harnad et al have written two articles about web citation linking and discovery:
Hitchcock, Steve, Tim Brody, Christopher Gutteridge, Les Carr, Wendy Hall, Stevan Harnad, Donna Bergmark, Carl Lagoze, Open Citation Linking: The Way Forward. D-Lib Magazine. Volume 8 Number 10. October 2002. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october02/hitchcock/10hitchcock.html
Hitchcock, Steve; Woukeu, Arouna; Brody, Tim; Carr, Les; Hall, Wendy and Harnad, Stevan. (2003) Evaluating Citebase, an open access Web-based citation-ranked search and impact discovery service http://opcit.eprints.org/evaluation/Citebase-evaluation/evaluation-report.html
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