Characteristics of Open Access journals in six subject areas

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 372-392

  Walters, William H ^a   Linvill, Anne C ^a  

^a Menlo College   (United States)

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EID: 79960335162     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl-132     Document Type: Article

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32. We made just two exceptions for journals classified under multiple subject categories. For the Journal of the Medical Library Association, we used a matching journal in the medical informatics category rather than the information science and library science category, since the medical aspect of JMLA is an important part of its subject profile. For Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, we used a matching journal in the marine and freshwater biology category rather than the oceanography category, since the matching oceanography journal focused on physical rather than biological oceanography.
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58. This question may be of special concern within economics. See Dawson and Rascoff, Scholarly Communication in the Economics Discipline.
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60. While most faculty are comfortable with the loss of print journals at their own institutions, they also feel strongly that print copies should exist somewhere; see Schonfeld and Housewright, Faculty Survey 2009. For an overview of sustainable access, see
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