Motivations for Web-based scholarly publishing: Do scientists recognize open availability as an advantage?

Journal of Scholarly Publishing

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 343-369

  Park, Ji Hong ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Electronic publishing; Open access; Scholarly communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349734692     PISSN: 11989742     EISSN: 17101166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/jsp.40.4.343     Document Type: Article

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