Researchers' green open access practice: A cross-disciplinary analysis

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 334-359

  Spezi, Valérie ^a   Fry, Jenny ^a   Creaser, Claire ^b   Probets, Steve ^a   White, Sonya ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Behaviour; Disciplinary differences; Open access; PEER project; Repositories; Research work; Self archiving

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878234528     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JD-01-2012-0008     Document Type: Article

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