The state and evolution of Gold open access: a country and discipline level analysis

Aslib Journal of Information Management

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 573-584

  Wang, Xianwen ^a   Cui, Yunxue ^a   Xu, Shenmeng ^b   Hu, Zhigang ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Country comparison; Discipline analysis; Gold OA; Open access; Toll access; Web of science

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; GOLD;

COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; COUNTRY COMPARISONS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DISCIPLINE ANALYSIS; DISCIPLINE LEVELS; LARGE SCALE DATA; TOLL ACCESS; WEB OF SCIENCE;

OPEN ACCESS;

EID: 85053249617     PISSN: 20503806     EISSN: 20503814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/AJIM-02-2018-0023     Document Type: Article

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