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Open Access: Good For Readers, Authors, And Journals, Carol Watson, James M. Donovan
Open Access: Good For Readers, Authors, And Journals, Carol Watson, James M. Donovan
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Readers, authors, and even law journal publishers will all achieve their different but related interests by adopting open access principles. Open access works for everyone, and is the future of information creation and distribution.
Citation Advantage Of Open Access Legal Scholarship, Carol Watson, James M. Donovan
Citation Advantage Of Open Access Legal Scholarship, Carol Watson, James M. Donovan
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In this study focusing on the impact of open access on legal scholarship, the authors examine open access articles from three journals at the University of Georgia School of Law and confirm that legal scholarship freely available via open access improves an article’s research impact. Open access legal scholarship—which today appears to account for almost half of the output of law faculties—can expect to receive fifty-eight percent more citations than non–open access writings of similar age from the same venue.