Apologies and link. Re: [SIGMETRICS] Travis Metcalfe says OA advantage not self-selection (fwd)

[David Goodman]

My apologies. This particular article is OA, at 
<http://www.springerlink.com/content/3485x525622j0801/fulltext.pdf>
I commend the author for his choice of publication routes. 

David Goodman, Ph.D., M.L.S.
previously:
Bibliographer and Research Librarian
Princeton University Library

dgoodman at princeton.edu


----- Original Message -----
From: David Goodman <dgoodman at Princeton.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 6:30 pm
Subject: Re: [SIGMETRICS] Travis Metcalfe says OA advantage not self-selection (fwd)
To: ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics <SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU>
Cc: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU

> Unfortunately the article is not OA. Perhaps the author can post 
> his 
> manuscript. I cannot tell, for example, if notification advantage 
> was considered for the conference papers. 
> 
> Research articles about OA should not be published in places 
> where some form of OA is not available. We say, and rightly, that 
> there should be almost no instance of not being able to find a 
> suitable journal that permits self-archiving.
> 
> David Goodman, Ph.D., M.L.S.
> previously:
> Bibliographer and Research Librarian
> Princeton University Library
> 
> dgoodman at princeton.edu
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stevan Harnad <harnad at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> Date: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 11:47 am
> Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Travis Metcalfe says OA advantage not self-
> selection (fwd)
> To: SIGMETRICS at LISTSERV.UTK.EDU
> 
> > Adminstrative info for SIGMETRICS (for example unsubscribe):
> > http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html
> > 
> > Mike Kurtz has just forwarded the URL for a recent paper by 
> Travis 
> > Metcalfeconfirming that the OA impact advantage is not merely a 
> > self-selection
> > effect in astrophysics:
> > 
> >    ----
> >    Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:35:55 -0500
> >    From: kurtz -- cfa.harvard.edu
> >    To:   harnad -- ecs.soton.ac.uk
> > 
> >    You may want to look at:
> >    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006SoPh..239..549M
> >    ----
> > 
> > I too will shortly be posting (in reply to Henk Moed) 
> > 
> >    
> > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#5901
> > a summary of some preliminary evidence across disciplines, just 
> > collectedand analyzed by my doctoral student, Chawki Hajjem, 
> using 
> > our robot-search
> > methodology. Based on comparing the OA advantage for mandated and
> > non-mandated self-archiving, this too confirms that the OA self-
> > archivingadvantage is not merely a self-selection effect.
> > 
> > For the desperately curious, the data are already visible here
> > 
> >    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/moedrep.ppt
> > 
> > and they also include the analyses in response to Eysenbach's 
> > challenge
> >    
> > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/subject.html#5373
> > to show, with independent multiple regression analyses, that the OA
> > self-archiving advantage from our multi-disciplinary, robot-based
> > comparisons is not merely an artifact "confounding" article age,
> > journal impact factor or number of authors. (Outcome: There is 
> > indeed a
> > statistically significant, independent OA self-archiving 
> advantage 
> > overand above the citation advantages conferred by articles age, 
> > journalimpact factor, and number of authors. Details in another 
> > forthcomingposting.)
> > 
> > Here, meanwhile, is Metcalfe's abstract:
> > 
> >    Metcalfe, Travis S. (2006) The Citation Impact of Digital 
> Preprint>    Archives for Solar Physics Papers. Solar Physics, 
> Volume 239, 
> > Issue    1-2, pp. 549-553 
> >    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006SoPh..239..549M
> >    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11207-006-0262-7
> >    ABSTRACT: Papers that are posted to a digital preprint archive 
> are>    typically cited twice as often as papers that are not 
> posted. 
> > This has
> >    been demonstrated for papers published in a wide variety of 
> > journals,    and in many different subfields of astronomy. Most 
> > astronomers    now use the arXiv.org server (astro-ph) to 
> > distribute preprints,
> >    but the solar physics community has an independent archive hosted
> >    at Montana State University. For several samples of solar physics
> >    papers published in 2003, I quantify the boost in citation 
> > rates for
> >    preprints posted to each of these servers. I show that papers 
> > on the
> >    MSU archive typically have citation rates 1.7 times higher 
> than 
> > the    average of similar papers that are not posted as 
> preprints, 
> > while    those posted to astro-ph get 2.6 times the average. A 
> > comparable    boost is found for papers published in conference 
> > proceedings,    suggesting that the higher citation rates are not 
> > the result of
> >    self-selection of above-average papers.
> > 
> > Stevan Harnad
> > 
>