Tracking open access journals evolution: Some considerations in open access data collection validation

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1578-1585

  Sotudeh, Hajar ^a,b   Horri, Abbas ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; INFORMATION SERVICES; MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL;

DATA COLLECTION; OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS (OAJ); OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS EVOLUTION; SCIENCE CITATION INDEX (SCI;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 34548587905     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20639     Document Type: Article

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