Characteristics of open access scholarly publishing: A multidisciplinary study

Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 394-406

  Kousha, Kayvan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Free publications; Generation and dissemination of information; Publishing; Research work; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

CITATION DATA; CITATION NETWORKS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; E-RESEARCH; FILE FORMATS; FREE PUBLICATIONS; GENERATION AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION; HYPERLINKING; INTERNET DOMAINS; NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGES; OPEN ACCESS; PDF FORMAT; RESEARCH PAPERS; SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING; SCHOLARLY RESEARCH; WEB CITATIONS;

LINGUISTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUERY LANGUAGES; RESEARCH; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TECHNICAL WRITING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

PUBLISHING;

EID: 70349826290     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00012530910973794     Document Type: Article

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