Academic opinions of Wikipedia and open access publishing

Online Information Review

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 332-347

  Xiao, Lu ^a   Askin, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic perspectives; Open Access publishing; Questionnaire study; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

RESEARCH; SURVEYS; WEBSITES;

ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT; ACADEMIC PERSPECTIVES; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; OPEN ACCESS; OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS; QUESTIONNAIRE STUDIES; SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION; WIKIPEDIA;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84902817670     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/OIR-04-2013-0062     Document Type: Article

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