Who support open access publishing? Gender, discipline, seniority and other factors associated with academics’ OA practice

Scientometrics

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 557-579

  Zhu, Yimei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic publishing; Gold OA; Green OA; Open access; Open science; Scholarly communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014550302     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2316-z     Document Type: Article

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