Title: The profits of free books : an experiment to measure the impact of open access publishing

Authors: Snijder, Ronald

Place: Hatfield

Publisher: Association of learned and professional society publishers

Year: 2010

Journal: Learned publishing

Volume: vol. 23, no. 4

PAGE: 293--302

Subject: Librarianship in the South

Keywords: electronic publishing

Abstract: This article describes an experiment to measure the impact of open access (OA) publishing of academic books. During a period of nine months, three sets of 100 books were disseminated through an institutional repository, the Google Book Search program, or both channels.

URL: http://eprints.rclis.org/28392/

Document type: E-article